Editing Eagle Grove, Iowa (section)

==History==
Eagle Grove was [[plat]]ted in 1881.<ref name="history">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA66 | title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways | author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company | year=1908 | page=66}}</ref> It was named from the eagle nests seen by early settlers in a nearby Oak tree grove perched above the bank of the Boone River.<ref name="history" /> In 1851 Mr. N. B. Paine moved to Wright County, purchased property and constructed a log cabin that stood directly west of the grove. The nest was over six feet in diameter. The eagles settled in the nest in the spring and summer of 1855–56, However, in the spring of 1857 they were shot and killed by a trapper. Thus Eagle Grove was named in honour of these eagles.<ref name="CityofEagleGrove">{{cite web|url= https://eaglegroveiowa.org/index.asp?SEC=0F1D8C1C-96E5-4C18-B344-3C0EB57BAEAD&Type=B_BASIC|title = Our History}}</ref>

On February 2, 1973, a natural gas explosion killed 13 people and leveled the Chatterbox Cafe and the neighboring Coast to Coast hardware store at the southeast corner of Broadway Street and Commerce Avenue.<ref>"Dig for Blast Victims— Fear 15 Killed in Tragedy", by Norman Brewer, ''Des Moines Tribune'', February 3, 1973, p. 1</ref><ref>"Death Toll 12, One Missing in Iowa Blast", ''Los Angeles Times'', February 4, 1973, p. I-4</ref>