Wapello County. There are 185 real estate listings found in Wapello County, IA. There are 7 cities in Wapello County which include Ottumwa , Blakesburg , Eldon , Eddyville , and Agency . There are 7 zip codes in Wapello County which include 52501 , 52536 , 52554 , 52553 , and 52530 .
The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1741. It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an inverted siphon to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle.
Franklin would have been Benjamin Franklinâs kind of town. Small, industrious, reinventing itself as time goes on, yet timeless. Franklin is one of nearly 50 towns around the country named for the inventor of critical things such as bifocals, the catheter, swim fins, the odometer and the Franklin stove. This particular Franklin in Hancock County was founded in 1764 by Moses Butler, who established the townâs first settlement at, where else, Butlerâs Point. Until then the land had been known as Plantations 8 and 9. Among the early names in Franklin, in addition to Butler, were Wentworth, Donnell, Bragdon, Hooper and Hardison.