Editing Wheatland, Iowa (section)

==History==
Wheatland was [[plat]]ted in 1858 under the leadership of John Bennett.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/wolfeshistorycl00wolfgoog | title=Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa, Volume 1 | publisher=B. F. Bowen | author=Wolfe, Patrick B. | year=1911 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/wolfeshistorycl00wolfgoog/page/n348 330]}}</ref> The town was named for President [[James Buchanan]]'s estate [[Wheatland (James Buchanan House)|Wheatland]] in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA138|year=1908|page=138}}</ref> The entire township (Spring Rock) had a white population of only 101 in 1850, but that number rose to 756 in 1860. A significant body of early settlers all came from the village of [[Wunderthausen]] in central [[Germany]]. The Germans founded the first church in town in 1857 with a Presbyterian affiliation. This relationship was dissolved in 1861 with the incorporation of St. Paul's [[German Reformed Church]] (now St. Paul's [[United Church of Christ]]). The First [[Presbyterian]] Church was organized in 1858, though no longer functions. Wheatland was legally incorporated on July 13, 1869.<ref>''The Past is a Celebration, the Future is a Promise: Published in Honor of Wheatland's Sesquicentennial 1858-2008''. Wheatland Sesquicentennial Book Committee.</ref>