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The Mondamin post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name.
Mondamin was named after Mondamin, a Native American corn deity.
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Mondamin was platted in the winter of 1867–1868 when the railroad was extended to that point. It was named after Mondamin, a Native American corn deity.
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By consulting White's Geological Reports of Iowa, volume 3, page 414, it will be there found that the surface of the S. C. & P. railroad track at Mondamin in this county is nine feet higher than at Modale, a distance of a little over six miles, and that there is a fall of ten feet from River Sioux station to Mondamin, having the same distance as that between Mondamin and Modale.
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Mondamin was incorporated in 1882, and had a population at the time of incorporation of 158; which at the present time has not doubled.
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Mondamin, which is the Indian name for corn, was thus named on account of its being situated within the greatest corn belt of all Western Iowa. It was platted, as a station on tlie Sioux City & Pacific Railway, in September, 1868, on sections 25 and 30, by John I. Blair, for the rail¬ road company.
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The only newspaper venture of any note at the village of Mondamin was the Alondamin Independent; it wras established by William Wonder, the first number being issued August 13, 1881. The pro¬ prietor had been publishing a musical journal and had the mechanical part exe¬ cuted elsewhere, hut finally put in a press
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The Mondamin post office opened in 1868, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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