Tabor, Iowa

Coordinates: 40°53′42″N 95°40′25″W / 40.89500°N 95.67361°W / 40.89500; -95.67361
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Tabor, Iowa
FIPS code
19-76935
GNIS feature ID468776[2]
Websitewww.taboriowa.us

Tabor is a city in

2020 census.[4]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.29 square miles (3.34 km2), all land.[5]

History

Tabor College, ca. 1893

In 1852 the city of Tabor was founded by "a few families from

Congregationalists,"[6] "generous people, early settlers from New England and Ohio who had brought with them Puritan ideas of religion, and Sumner's and Phillips' and Garrison's ideas of freedom."[7] Among them were the Christian clergymen George Gaston, Samuel A. Adams, and Rev. John Todd, and their families. They chose to settle in what is now Tabor in order to found a Christian college, which eventually became Tabor College. The founders were impressed with this high location and mutually selected the name "Tabor" after the Biblical name of Mount Tabor, a mountain near Nazareth, the town of Jesus' childhood.[8]

The town was the home of many abolitionists; Rev. Todd, co-founder of Tabor College, was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. The residents of Tabor held monthly abolitionist prayer meetings,[9]: 90  and helped runaway slaves whenever they could.[9]: 111 

During the

Sharps rifles, sent from Boston for use in Kansas by free-state partisans, were stored there (in John Todd's barn).[6] In 1857–1858 abolitionist John Brown spent the winter in Tabor, assembling and training men for his raid on Harpers Ferry.[6]

Tabor College was located in the city from 1853 until 1927, when it closed for financial reasons. The college's buildings housed German

.

The Tabor & Northern Railway, a 9-mile line connecting with the Wabash Railroad at Malvern, operated from 1889 to 1934.[10] It was operated by the college.[11]

Demographics

Historical populations
YearPop.±%
1870310—    
1880320+3.2%
1890503+57.2%
1900934+85.7%
1910909−2.7%
19201,186+30.5%
19301,017−14.2%
1940976−4.0%
1950869−11.0%
1960909+4.6%
1970957+5.3%
19801,088+13.7%
1990994−8.6%
2000993−0.1%
20101,040+4.7%
2020928−10.8%
Source:"U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 29, 2020. and Iowa Data Center
Source:
U.S. Decennial Census[12][4]

2010 census

At the 2010

Latino
of any race were 2.0% of the population.

There were 418 households, of which 29.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.9% were non-families. 31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.95.

The median age was 44.3 years. 23.2% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.3% were from 25 to 44; 27.1% were from 45 to 64; and 22.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.3% male and 51.7% female.

2000 census

At the 2000 census,

Latino
of any race.

There were 387 households, of which 30.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.0% were non-families. 28.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.2% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.91.

24.1% of the population were under the age of 18, 5.2% from 18 to 24, 22.6% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 25.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 84.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.1 males.

The

poverty line
, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Fremont–Mills Community School District operates public schools.[15]

National Historic Places and attractions

Cultural references

The town of Gilead, in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, is a fictionalised version of Tabor.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
  2. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tabor, Iowa
  3. ^ Mills County, Iowa historic map
  4. ^ a b "2020 Census State Redistricting Data". census.gov. United states Census Bureau. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  5. ^ "US Gazetteer files 2010". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on January 25, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d Richman, Irving B. (1894). "John Brown among the Quakers". John Brown among the Quakers, and other sketches. Des Moines, Iowa: Historical Department of Iowa. pp. 11–59, at pp. 14–16.
  7. ^ Harris, Ransom Langdon (October 1894). "John Brown and his followers in Iowa". Midland Monthly Magazine. Vol. 2, no. 4. pp. 262–268.
  8. ^ Tabor Historical Society (2011). "Tabor College". Archived from the original on July 26, 2019.
  9. ^
    Project MUSE
    .
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    .
  11. newspapers.com
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  12. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  13. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
  14. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  15. ^ "Fremont-Mills Archived April 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine." Iowa Department of Education. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
  16. ^ "Marilynne Robinson | The Writing University". www.writinguniversity.org. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012.

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