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1 1 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. __
1 2 BY HOSCH
1 3 A Resolution honoring the City of Hopkinton on its
1 4 sesquicentennial year.
1 5 WHEREAS, the City of Hopkinton evolved from a
1 6 settlement which originated in the late 1840s in close
1 7 proximity to sawmills erected on the Maquoketa River
1 8 and Plum Creek; and
1 9 WHEREAS, the community experienced a rapid influx
1 10 of settlers in the early 1850s based on this
1 11 proximity; and
1 12 WHEREAS, the town newspaper, The Hopkinton Leader,
1 13 was owned at the turn of the century by Mr. Frank F.
1 14 Merriam, who later became the Governor of California;
1 15 and
1 16 WHEREAS, Lenox College was founded in Hopkinton in
1 17 1859, and is presently maintained by the Delaware
1 18 County Historical Society as a nine-building museum
1 19 complex listed on the National Register of Historic
1 20 Places; and
1 21 WHEREAS, on May 17, 1864, all but two of the
1 22 college's male students answered the call to fight in
1 23 the Civil War, resulting in the college being known as
1 24 the "Home of the Schoolboy Company"; and
1 25 WHEREAS, this participation was commemorated on the
1 26 Lenox College campus in 1865 by a Civil War monument
1 27 inscribed with the names of students who died during
1 28 the Civil War, and is remembered annually during the
1 29 community's Civil War Days celebration; and
1 30 WHEREAS, the Civil War monument was the first such
2 1 monument erected on a college campus; NOW THEREFORE,
2 2 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
2 3 recognizes and extends its congratulations to the City
2 4 of Hopkinton on its sesquicentennial anniversary year
2 5 and for its 150 years of service to its citizens and
2 6 to the State of Iowa; and
2 7 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That an official copy of
2 8 this Resolution be prepared and presented to the
2 9 Honorable Mr. Dan Tucker, Mayor of the City of
2 10 Hopkinton.
2 11 LSB 3573SS 80
2 12 rn/cl/14
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