Editing Dunlap, Iowa (section)

==History==
Dunlap was [[plat]]ted in 1867, and it was incorporated in 1871.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bH8HtIwXzdcC | title=History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth | publisher=Western Publishing Company | year=1882 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bH8HtIwXzdcC/page/n300 301]}}</ref> The city was named for [[George L. Dunlap]], General Superintendent of the [[Chicago and North Western Transportation Company|Chicago & North Western railroad]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA66|year=1908|page=66}}</ref>

The location of Dunlap was within the final 50 miles of the railroad's Council Bluffs goal, connecting with the Union Pacific's transcontinental railroad building from Omaha.  By January 1867, the engineering had been completed to Council Bluffs<ref name="archive.org">{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/ashcroftsrailway1866ashc/page/118/mode/2up | title=Ashcroft's railway directory for ... : Containing an official list of all the officers and directors of the rail-roads in the United States & Canadas, together with their financial condition and amount of rolling stock | date=1862 }}</ref> and by April 30 the first trains would be able to run all the way through, making this the first uninterrupted rail connection with the East.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iowadot.gov/iowarail/historical-culture/iowa-rail-history | title=Iowa Rail History - Office of Rail Transportation }}</ref>  So with the concurrence of John B. Turner, former Pres. and Director of the C&NW, on Feb. 13, 1867 George L. Dunlap wrote Isaac B Howe, Supt. of the Iowa Div.: "(Dunlap is)...the proper point for terminus of the Division, ...locating a town there and establishing comfortable homes for our men, thereby attaching them to the Co.'s interest and increasing their efficiency."   <ref name="archive.org"/><ref>http://www.iagenweb.org/clinton/people/howe/letters1867.html | Feb. 13th letter-George L. Dunlap to IB Howe |quote=  "Your favor of the 11th inst has been received and contents noted. If it is as you state, that Messrs Blair & Walker do not own the land when we propose locating at "Dunlap", and cannot set up any claim that will conflict with our interests, you are authorized to make all the necessary arrangements with Judge Dow for the proper camping out of the plan your letter indicates. I have read your letter to Mr. Turner who is chairman of our committee, and he concurs with me as to "Dunlap's" being the proper point for terminus of the Division, and he approves the suggestion of locating a town there and establishing comfortable homes for our men, thereby attaching them to the Co.'s interest and increasing their efficiency.
	As soon as your land arrangements are completed with the Judge, I want you to secure bricks and material for an engine house at Dunlap, and let the work be commenced in the spring as soon as the weather is suitable. And you will also secure bricks and material for an eleven stall engine house, and suitable blacksmiths and car shops at Council Bluffs to be commenced as soon as ever the post gets out enough to permit us. Do not fail to secure the spring at "Dunlap"; and I want you to fix for building the dam at Boone, below the engine house to insure a constant supply of water at the situation."</ref>

Dunlap's historic [[I.O.O.F. Hall (Dunlap, Iowa)|Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in June 2011.