Webster City
Iowa, United States
Also known as: Newcastle
Webster City, city, seat (1856) of Hamilton county, central Iowa, U.S., on the Boone River, 17 miles (27 km) east of Fort Dodge. It was settled in 1850 by Wilson Brewer and was known as Newcastle until 1856, when it became the county seat and was renamed Webster City, possibly for Webster county (from which Hamilton county was created) or for the owner of a stagecoach line between Belmont, Wisconsin, and Fort Dodge. Webster City...