Editing Avoca, Iowa (section)

==History==
Avoca was founded in 1869 in connection with the construction of the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]] through the area.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_I4YUAAAAYAAJ | title=History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa: Containing a History from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time | publisher=O. L. Baskin & Company | year=1883 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_I4YUAAAAYAAJ/page/n599 244]}}</ref>  The city is named after a place mentioned in the [[Thomas Moore]] poem "The Meeting of the Waters," about the [[River Avoca]] in Ireland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Avoca - History of Avoca |url=https://www.cityofavoca.com/vnews/display.v/SEC/Live/Work/Play%7CHistory%20of%20Avoca}}</ref> Avoca quickly developed as a regional service center for the surrounding farms.<ref>[http://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/avoca.htm Pottawatamie Count Historical Society article on Avoca] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330232604/http://www.thehistoricalsociety.org/avoca.htm |date=March 30, 2012 }}</ref>

In 2005, Avoca opened a local pool.<ref>{{Cite web|last=MCMAHON|first=TOM|title=A tale of two pools: Avoca and Glenwood|url=https://nonpareilonline.com/news/a-tale-of-two-pools-avoca-and-glenwood/article_dff457fc-5421-580d-b334-5bd85ae2c4ea.html|access-date=2020-09-14|website=The Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs, Iowa|language=en}}</ref>

The Pottawatomie County, Iowa county government maintains a second courthouse in Avoca to serve the northeastern portion of the county.  Council Bluffs, which is the county seat is in the extreme southwestern part of this large county.<ref>The Register's Editorial: Iowa's collection of courthouses will remain at 101, at least for now
The Register’s Editorial Board, Des Moines Register,  Des Moines, Iowa, Published 12 SEP 2014</ref>