Editing Magnolia, Iowa (section)

==History==
Harrison County was established in 1851 and organized on March 7, 1853.<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.harrisoncountyia.org/#|title= County History|publisher= Harrison County, Iowa |access-date=2011-03-04}}</ref>  Abram Fletcher, Charles Wolcott and A. D. Jones were appointed by the [[Iowa General Assembly]] as Commissioners to organize the county and establish a county seat.  They chose the location for Magnolia and gave it its name.  The third building that was erected in the town for the [[Old Harrison County Courthouse (Iowa)|county courthouse]] in 1873 was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> The building was demolished in 2019 due to extreme disrepair and the lack of funds to maintain it.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

The county seat was transferred to Logan from Magnolia in 1875.<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/n320 321]}}</ref>