Corning (Iowa)
Corning is a city of the south-west of the State of the Iowa to the the United States. Chief town of the county of Adams, it is located in. The population, at the time of the census of 2000, was of 1.783 inhabitants.
History
Corning (Iowa) was established by the Icariens French in 1852. The disciples of Etienne Cabet left France in 1848. They came in “Icaria” (Texas), then with Nauvoo (Illinois) in 1849, before coming to settle in the area of Corning. The greatest group of colonists arrived in 1858 with the intention to live with the Community mode agreeing to the utopian ideals of the book of Cabet Voyage in Icarie . It is in this city that the Icariens remained longest with the the United States, remaining until 1898.
The State of Iowa will reconstitute the original place of the colony to make a historic site of it. Each year in June, Corning celebrates the “Festival of the French Heritage”.
Johnny Carson was born in Corning at 1925.
References
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