Have you ever heard about the history of Irwin, Iowa. Well the town itself was named after E.W Irwin. Over there it just use to be Irwin Community School until ‘92, when it joined school districts with Kirkman and Manilla.
Kirkman became a town because the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad ran through the territory.Kirkman was named after M.M Kirkman who was the railroad official and the first house ever built in Kirkman was the Kirkman House. Manning was just a swampy region where they could hunt occasionally.
By Kim Borosko