The Manning Heritage Foundation is an Iowa non-profit corporation established under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The organization was created almost three decades ago primarily to preserve the German-American culture of the community of Manning, Iowa – which was founded in 1881 by immigrants from the Schleswig-Holstein area of Germany. -
The centerpiece of the Manning Heritage Foundation is its beautiful Heritage Park – a location packed with attractions that will take visitors back in time and give them a glimpse of not only what frontier life was like in a fledgling new community in Iowa, but perhaps even a hint of what “would have been” had their ancestors not made the courageous voyage from Germany across the Atlantic and then some.
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The activities of the Foundation are numerous and are always directed toward cultivating the social, cultural and economic contributions of the thousands of German settlers that migrated to this great country. Just as those early immigrants labored to claim their future, the Manning Heritage Foundation is working hard to claim and memorialize our past.
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We invite you to tour this Web site and learn more about our unique offerings – specifically our 350-year-old authentic German Hausbarn – located in the Heartland of America. We guarantee you’ll be left saying, “How’d they get that there?” And to get that question fully answered, we look forward to telling you in person when you take a tour of this hidden gem located off the beaten path.
