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Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA

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Wikipedia 2016:

Le Mars is a city in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. It is located on the Floyd River and northeast of Sioux City. The population was 9,826 at the 2010 census.

Le Mars is the home of Wells' Dairy, perhaps the world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the self-proclaimed "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells is best known for its Blue Bunny products.

History:

Le Mars was platted in 1869, but no lots were sold until the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company arrived in 1879. According to town legend, CNW investor John I. Blair and a group of women arrived at the town, which was then called St. Paul Junction. Blair asked the women to name the town, and they submitted an acronym based upon their first names' initials: Lucy Underhill, Elizabeth Parson, Mary Weare, Anna Blair, Rebecca Smith and Sarah Reynolds.

In 1885, Frederick Brooke Close, a young Englishman who had passed up attending Cambridge University to live in Iowa, founded the Northwestern Polo League in Le Mars.

During the Great Depression in 1933, at a time when banks were foreclosing on many farmers, Le Mars caught the attention of the nation when "over 500 hundred farmers crowded the court room in Le Mars", according to an account by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.. The farmers were there to demand that judge Charles C. Bradley suspend foreclosure proceedings until recently passed laws could be considered. Judge Bradley refused. Schlesinger notes that one farmer remarked that the court room wasn't his alone, that farmers had paid for it with their taxes. The crowd rushed the judge, slapped him, and placed a rope around his neck and a hub cap on his head. They did not, however kill him.

Fred H. Wells opened a milk route in Le Mars in 1913. By 1925, Wells and his sons had opened an ice cream manufacturing plant there. However, the plant (and the Wells name) was purchased by Fairmount Ice Cream in 1928. In 1935, Fred and his sons sought to begin selling ice cream again, but could no longer use their name. They therefore sponsored a “Name That Ice Cream” contest in the Sioux City Journal. The winner of the $25 prize suggested "Blue Bunny" because his son had enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in department store windows at Easter.

Dominating the skyline of present-day Le Mars is Wells' Blue Bunny Dairy's 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) plant with a 12-story tall refrigeration tower called the "South Ice Cream Plant" - so-named because it is on the south side of town. As of 2005, the plant employed 1,000 and produces 75 million gallons of frozen treats, the milk coming mainly coming from three large Iowa dairy farms. The size of this plant has led to speculation that the company is the world's largest family-owned and managed dairy processor and the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream in one location, with Le Mars claiming to be the "Ice Cream Capital of the World".

President George W. Bush came to Le Mars on November 3, 2006, to campaign for Jim Nussle, then candidate for Iowa governor. He spoke at Le Mars Community High School to a crowd of a couple thousand.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Hoffman, Delbert	21 Jan 1904	Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	I35243

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Becker, Emma	28 Jul 1992	Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	I65822
2	Keck, Barbara	29 Jun 1960	Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	I65596
3	Meyer, Karl C.	29 Jun 1963	Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	I65946

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Becker, Emma		Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	I65822

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Konzen / Sumner	31 Mrz 1940	Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA	F48260