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Post card from 1910 of Mason City Hide and Fur Company of Mason City Iowa Musical heritage In 1870, Mason City, Iowa was officially incorporated as a town with Darius B.

Mason City was named the county seat in 1858. The United States Post Office Department started service to the town in 1857.

Lizzie Thompson established the first schoolhouse in a log cabin in 1856. Silas Card opened the first medical practice in the area. In 1854, John McMillin opened the first store, and Dr. The town had several names: Shibboleth, Masonic Grove, and Masonville until Mason City was adopted in 1855, in honor of a founder's son, Mason Long. The first settlement that became Shibboleth was established in 1853 at the confluence of the Winnebago River and Calmus Creek. The region around what would later be first called Shibboleth was a summer home to the Sioux and Winnebago nations. It is commonly referred to as the 'River City', as the city grew up centered on the Winnebago River. The Mason City Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Cerro Gordo and Worth counties. The population was 27,338 in the 2020 census, a decline from 29,172 in the 2000 census. Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

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