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Thornburg, Iowa
Thornburg is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 67 at the 2010 census.
==History==
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Thornburg in 1879〔Report of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company for the year ending June 30, 1880, (Third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending June 30, 1880 ), Mills, Des Moines, 1880; page 133.〕 The town was founded by the railroad and named in memory of Major Thomas T. Thornburgh, who died in the Meeker Massacre.〔Tom Savage, (A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names ), University of Iowa Press, 2007; page 218.〕〔(Thomas Tipton Thornburgh ), (Arlington National Cemetery ) unofficial website.〕 By 1881, Thornburg was at the junction of the line to What Cheer and a branch to Montezuma〔(Travelers' Official Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines in the United States and Canada ), National Railway Publication Co., New York, July 1881; pages 250-251.〕
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