Editing Floyd County, Iowa (section)

==History==
Floyd County was established in 1854 and was named for Sergeant [[Charles Floyd (explorer)|Charles Floyd]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n126 127]}}</ref> of the [[Lewis and Clark]] Expedition, who died in 1804 near what is now [[Sioux City, Iowa|Sioux City]], [[Iowa]], and who was the only member to die on the Expedition.

The first school in the county was taught at Nora Springs in 1854.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/historyoffloydco02inte/historyoffloydco02inte_djvu.txt History of Floyd County Iowa, Chicago, Interstate Publishing Co., 1882, p. 579]</ref> The second was opened at Charles City, the third at Floyd. Twelve years later there were 54 schools in the county, in September 1875, there were 100 school-houses in Floyd County.