Enterprise, Iowa

Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Iowa, United States.[2] The state capital and county seat of Des Moines is located slightly less than 10 miles away.As more workers arrived, a town was quickly set up to accommodate the miners and their families.The vein would eventually run dry, and in 1919 Enterprise would be shut down as a coal mining town.Many of the workers moved to Ankeny, and began new lives farming the surrounding area or working for the numerous stores in the town's center.
Map of Iowa highlighting Polk County
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