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Quakers to migrate westward to join them. As early as 1837, Friends meetings were held in private homes, and after the village was laid out in 1839 by Aaron Street Jr., and Peter Boyer, a meeting house was built. From the early years members of other Christian denominations settled in Salem, so it was never an exclusively Quaker community.
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334:National Register of Historic Places
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324:. A prominent member of the
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58:Location of Salem, Iowa
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227: • Summer (
83:40.85194°N 91.62056°W
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774:Lorenzo D. Lewelling
703:Underground Railroad
322:Underground Railroad
201: • Density
46:Downtown Salem, Iowa
959:The Quakers of Iowa
900:The Quakers of Iowa
811:Holtkamp Round Barn
762:Grenville Beardsley
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1415:Salem, Iowa
1386:Iowa portal
1332:Mount Union
1226:County seat
1064:January 31,
792:geophysical
684:other races
661:2000 census
609:2010 census
302:2020 census
86: /
25:Salem, Iowa
1409:Categories
1337:Swedesburg
1267:New London
1145:October 7,
883:August 12,
877:census.gov
821:References
794:scientist.
665:As of the
613:As of the
280:feature ID
188:Population
74:91°37′14″W
71:40°51′07″N
1371:Footnotes
1354:community
1257:Hillsboro
840:March 16,
788:Antarctic
737:Education
588:March 29,
344:Geography
268:FIPS code
256:Area code
210:Time zone
180:Elevation
1297:Winfield
1292:Westwood
1111:June 17,
1089:July 19,
942:Archived
805:See also
688:Hispanic
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599:Source:
272:19-70230
244:ZIP code
1342:Trenton
1287:Wayland
1251:Coppock
1039:May 11,
1014:June 4,
992:May 11,
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576:Source:
314:Quakers
308:History
283:2396527
100:Country
1327:Lowell
1243:Cities
1105:"Home"
692:Latino
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1282:Salem
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623:White
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290:Salem
249:52649
238:(CDT)
236:UTC-5
215:UTC-6
145:Henry
120:State
1319:CDPs
1277:Rome
1272:Olds
1169:2012
1147:2018
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