Senate Resolution 141 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                        BY  RAGAN
  1  3 A Resolution honoring the City of Stacyville on its
  1  4    sesquicentennial year.
  1  5    WHEREAS, in 1851 the Sioux tribe signed over the
  1  6 area that would become Stacyville to the United States
  1  7 government pursuant to the last treaty in which Native
  1  8 Americans surrendered what would become Iowa soil to
  1  9 the United States; and
  1 10    WHEREAS, the Dakota, Sioux, Sauk, and Fox tribes
  1 11 camped along the Cedar River near the early Stacyville
  1 12 settlers; and
  1 13    WHEREAS, by 1855 the state of Iowa was only nine
  1 14 years old and hardy entrepreneurs from McHenry,
  1 15 Illinois, were looking westward toward opportunities
  1 16 in the northern part of Iowa; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, in that same year Adam Blake and Nicholas
  1 18 Hemann arrived in the area that became Stacyville,
  1 19 laying the foundation for a community that has
  1 20 survived 150 years; and
  1 21    WHEREAS, Stacyville Township was formed in 1856 and
  1 22 in February of that year Homer and Amelia (Donaldson)
  1 23 Stacy, with their family, built a house and store and
  1 24 platted the village of Stacyville; and
  1 25    WHEREAS, by August 1856 a post office and sawmill
  1 26 had been established and by 1857 there were over 20
  1 27 frame buildings in the village; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, when the Stacy family donated a plot of
  1 29 land to be used as a park, the settlers decided to
  1 30 name the town after them; and
  2  1    WHEREAS, a school district was organized and the
  2  2 first schoolhouse was completed by fall of 1856, with
  2  3 a public high school built in 1867 and a Catholic
  2  4 school building completed in 1877; and
  2  5    WHEREAS, there were three Christian denominations
  2  6 active in Stacyville in the latter half of the
  2  7 nineteenth century:  Catholic, Congregationalist, and
  2  8 Methodist; and
  2  9    WHEREAS, in 1893 Henry W. Schultz's catalogue
  2 10 business preceded the Sears & Roebuck catalogue; and
  2 11    WHEREAS, Stacyville provided homes for children who
  2 12 rode the orphan trains between 1853 and the early
  2 13 1900s; and
  2 14    WHEREAS, Stacyville's newspapers have included The
  2 15 Stacyville Sentinel, The Herald, The Stacyville
  2 16 Monitor, and The Monitor Review; and
  2 17    WHEREAS, after most of the east side of the
  2 18 business district on Broad Street was destroyed by a
  2 19 fire in 1935, the town pulled together to rebuild and
  2 20 survive; and
  2 21    WHEREAS, in the beginning, agriculture predominated
  2 22 in the Stacyville area and 4=H is still strong today;
  2 23 and
  2 24    WHEREAS, Stacyville, located along the Little Cedar
  2 25 River in northeast Iowa, will officially celebrate its
  2 26 150th year of German heritage on July 28, 29, and 30,
  2 27 2006, during its annual Bratwurst Daze, with this
  2 28 year's motto:  "We're looking back, but moving
  2 29 forward."; NOW THEREFORE,
  2 30    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  3  1 recognizes and extends its congratulations to the City
  3  2 of Stacyville on its sesquicentennial and for its 150
  3  3 years of service to its citizens and to the State of
  3  4 Iowa; and
  3  5    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That an official copy of
  3  6 this Resolution be prepared and presented to mayor
  3  7 Harold Isaac on behalf of the City of Stacyville.
  3  8 LSB 6632SS 81
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