Editing Templeton, Iowa (section)

==History==
Templeton was [[plat]]ted in 1882.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=My76xBkl6vAC&pg=PA414|year=1938|publisher=WPA|isbn=978-1-58729-663-5|page=414}}</ref> The city was probably named for a railroad worker.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=7693 |title= Profile for Templeton, Iowa, IA|publisher= ePodunk|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}</ref> The city was incorporated on September 28, 1883.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.city-data.com/city/Templeton-Iowa.html|title= Templeton, Iowa|publisher= City-Data.com|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}</ref>

The city is perhaps best known as the home of [[Templeton Rye]], a "brand" of [[Rye whiskey|rye]] manufactured during the [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition era]] that was very popular in [[Chicago]], [[Omaha, Nebraska|Omaha]], and Kansas City [[Speakeasy|speakeasies]].<ref>LISA L. OSSIAN. "Bandits, Mad Men, and Suicides: Fear, Anger, and Death in a Troubled Iowa Landscape, 1929-1933. " Agricultural History  80.3 (2006): 296-311 at 302.</ref> Many enterprising Carroll County farmers found this to be a viable way to supplement income during the [[Great Depression]]. At the height of the bootlegging during the Great Depression, Templeton with a population of less than 500 people, was using three railroad cars of sugar a month.