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Community Building on Main Street houses the Rowan Public Library, City Hall, and a Community Center. Rowan's main street also features a playground, fire station, custom wood framing shop, machine and welding business, and a historical museum. NEW Cooperative has a new grain elevator and feed mill east of town. Rowan has one church in town, the United Church of Rowan, which is a yoked church that belongs to both the United Church of Christ (Congregational) and the United Methodist Church. There is also a church 4 miles west of Rowan at the Highway 3/69 Junction—the Immanuel Missouri-Synod Lutheran Church. Rowan is a small community that offers affordable housing and is a 10-mile commute to either Belmond or Clarion and Interstate 35 is a short 7-mile drive east.
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junior high moving in 1963. A grade school was continued until 1971, when the school was closed. The original 1914 brick classrooms were demolished in 1977. The 1949 gymnasium structure has been renovated over the years to become the Rowan Events Center. Owned by the City of Rowan, the gymnasium is now used as the Iowa River
Players Community Theatre. The lower level houses a community room for events throughout the year, such as the Legion Fish Fry and the Lions Chicken Barbecue. Belmond–Klemme CSD formed on July 1, 1994, with the merger of the Belmond and
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