Editing Glenwood, Iowa (section)

==History==
Located in a hollow of the [[Loess Hills]] on the east side of the [[Missouri River]], Glenwood was established by [[Mormons]] in 1848 as Coonsville.<ref name= ALegion>{{cite web| url= https://centennial.legion.org/iowa/post141/2017/01/01/looking-back-glenwood-history| title= Looking Back: Glenwood History: Post 141 Glenwood, Iowa| date= January 1, 2017| website= legion.org| publisher= The American Legion| access-date= January 12, 2018| archive-date= January 13, 2018| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180113035553/https://centennial.legion.org/iowa/post141/2017/01/01/looking-back-glenwood-history| url-status= live}}</ref> It prospered during the [[California Gold Rush]] largely due to the [[grain mill]] on Keg Creek. Coonsville was the scene of anti-Mormon mob violence. It became the [[county seat]] of [[Mills County, Iowa|Mills County]] in 1851. In 1852, after most Mormons left for [[Utah]], it was renamed Glenwood after a [[Presbyterian]] minister, Glenn Wood.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Government Printing Office | last= Gannett| first= Henry | year=1905 | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n137 138]}}</ref>

The community supported the creation of [[Nebraska Territory]] in 1854. Two Glenwood attorneys were elected to the Nebraska territorial legislature, and they were run out of town for accepting shares in [[Scriptown]]. At the end of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], an Iowa Veteran's Orphans Home was founded here.  The evangelist (and professional baseball athlete) [[Billy Sunday]] lived at the orphanage as a child.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/billy-sunday| work= [[Des Moines Register]]| title= Billy Sunday| first= Tom |last= Longden| access-date= January 12, 2018}}</ref>

The [[Burlington and Missouri River Railroad]] was completed through Glenwood in 1869. During the late 19th century, the community was widely known as Iowa's center of fruit production, particularly of apples, and it hosted an annual Apple Carnival. Early industries included an iron foundry, an expansive marble and stone works, the Glenwood Creamery, and a large cannery that covered a city block on the east side of Locust Street. It distributed its products under the brand-name "The Glenwood." Darting & McGavern's "Sanitary" cannery on South Vine and Railroad Avenue canned tomatoes, pumpkin, apples, and beets into the 1920s.

In 1876 the State Veterans' Orphan's Home at Glenwood was adapted for use as the Iowa [[Psychiatric hospital|Asylum]] for [[feeble-minded|Feeble-Minded]] Children,<ref>{{cite journal | url= https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/care-and-training-of-feeble-minded-children-1887/ | title= Care And Training Of Feeble-Minded Children | year= 1887 | first= F. M. | last= Powell | via= vcu.edu | publisher= [[National Conference of Charities and Correction]]'s 14th Annual Session | place= Omaha, Nebraska | at= Editor's Note | access-date= January 12, 2018 | archive-date= January 13, 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180113150222/https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/care-and-training-of-feeble-minded-children-1887/ | url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| work= The History of Jefferson County, Iowa| pages= 201–202| publisher= The Western Historical Company of Chicago| year= 1879| title= Asylum For Feeble Minded Children| url= http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/1879History/FeebleMinded.html| via= iagenweb.org| access-date= January 12, 2018| archive-date= November 25, 2019| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191125073038/http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/1879History/FeebleMinded.html| url-status= live}}</ref> the seventh such facility in the country and the first located west of the [[Mississippi River]]. The Glenwood facility expanded with increased acceptance of treatment and institutionalization for [[intellectual disability]]; it became the [[Iowa Institution for Feeble-Minded Children]]. The grounds and Administration Building were largely patterned on the [[Kirkbride Plan]], as state funding permitted. (The Administration Building has since been demolished.)

The institution has long dominated Glenwood both economically and culturally, although the IIFMC was self-sufficient and intentionally isolated the residents from the rest of the town. By 1925, the Glenwood IIFMC was the home of 1,555 inmates classified as [[Idiot (usage)|idiot]]s, [[imbecile]]s, and [[Moron (psychology)|moron]]s, according to contemporary definitions. The IIFMC became the Glenwood State-Hospital School in 1941.  By the early 1950s, the facility covered {{convert|1185|acre|km2|0}}; it had 310 staff members for the 1,968 patients. Under the influence of [[eugenics]] theory, the state had ordered [[Human sterilization (surgical procedure)|sterilization]] of those defined as feeble-minded or worse, and experimental treatments such as cold baths and electroshock were used to reduce symptoms of [[psychosis]] and [[clinical depression|depression]]. The de-institutionalization of Glenwood began in the late 1950s.  A November 17, 1957 article in the ''[[Des Moines Register]]'' revealed that Mayo Buckner had spent 59 years confined to Glenwood, despite an IQ of 120, indicating above-average intelligence. National attention followed for Buckner and the Glenwood State-Hospital School, which were featured in the December 9, 1957 issue of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and the March 25, 1958 issue of ''[[Life Magazine]]''. During the 1970s, the facility completed a transformation from traditional ward buildings into [[group home]]-styled cottages. It is now known as the Glenwood Resource Center and provides services and skills training to support people living in communities.

After [[World War II]], the town of Glenwood became a center of [[meat-packing]]. During the early 1950s, it had one of America's largest [[kosher]] packinghouses,<ref name= ALegion /> with most of its product shipped to New York and the East Coast. The packinghouse was later modified to process both cattle and pork; it was bought by [[Swift & Company]] and then closed in the 1980s. Meatpacking has moved to sites further west, closer to ranching areas.

[http://www.trajet.com Trajet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904100508/http://www.trajet.com/ |date=September 4, 2015 }}, a [[hot tub|whirlpool]] manufacturer, now occupies the former slaughterhouse.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.opinion-tribune.com/content/trajet-building-nebraska-gop-chair-tied-controversy| title= Trajet Building, Nebraska GOP Chair Tied To Controversy| date= July 29, 2014| work= [[The Opinion-Tribune]]| access-date= January 12, 2018| archive-date= January 13, 2018| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180113150248/http://www.opinion-tribune.com/content/trajet-building-nebraska-gop-chair-tied-controversy| url-status= live}}</ref> A large industrial laundry operated for most of the 20th century in the town until it was purchased and closed by [[Cintas]].

Transportation links include the [[BNSF]]; [[U.S. Route 34]], and [[U.S. Route 275]] pass through Glenwood, and [[Interstate 29]] is located a few miles west on the floodplain of the [[Missouri River]].  Tourist destinations are the [[Loess Hills]] and the [[National Scenic Byway]].

In March 2019, Mills County was hit with [[2019 Midwestern U.S. floods|catastrophic flooding]]. While Glenwood itself was not directly affected, residents were without clean water for weeks on a boil order.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/10/09/iowa-flooding-2019-missouri-river-buyouts-flood-recovery-fema/2287374001/| title= Boil order lifted in flood-stricken Glenwood| date= April 3, 2019| work= [[Des Moines Register]]| access-date= October 14, 2019}}</ref> Glenwood officials worked with Mills County to help flood efforts in nearby towns like [[Pacific Junction, Iowa|Pacific Junction]], which was nearly completely submerged with hundreds displaced.<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/04/03/glenwood-iowa-water-boil-order-iowa-dnr-conserve-water-mills-county-iowa-flooding/3359433002/| title= 205 days and counting: For western Iowa, recovery from historic flooding remains a long way off| date= October 9, 2019| work= [[Des Moines Register]]| access-date= October 14, 2019}}</ref>