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Onawa, Iowa
Onawa is a city in Monona County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,998 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Monona County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is the largest town on the Iowa side of the Missouri River between Council Bluffs and Sioux City. The city has the widest main street in the United States - about wide. ==History== Onawa was named for a character mentioned in the poem ''The Song of Hiawatha'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Onawa was platted in 1857, and the railway arrived to the city in 1867. Onawa was the site of a POW camp for captured German soldiers, between 1944 and 1946. Historical documents indicate there were never more than 50 POWs in camp. A larger camp existed near the central Iowa town of Algona, and housed as many as 5,400 German POWs.
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