Editing Fredericksburg, Iowa (section)

==History==
Fredericksburg was incorporated on December 18, 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Fredericksburg-Iowa.html|title= Fredericksburg, Iowa|publisher= City-Data.com|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}</ref> The city was named after Frederick Padden, a local settler who [[plat]]ted the village in 1856.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4QUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA299 | title=History of Chickasaw and Howard Counties, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Fairbairn, Robert Herd | year=1919 | pages=299}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7330|title= Profile for Fredericksburg, Iowa, IA|publisher= ePodunk|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}</ref> In the late 1800s, Dr. [[William S. Pitts]], a local physician and composer who wrote "[[The Church in the Wildwood]]", served as mayor of the town.

[[Bert L. Van Gorden]] (1873-1941), Wisconsin State Assemblyman and businessman, was born in Fredericksburg.<ref>'Wisconsin Blue Book 1915,' Biographical Sketch of B. L. Van Gorden, pg. 514</ref>