Chickasaw County

 Chickasaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. It was named for the southern Indian Nation whose chief was Bradford. Its county seat is New Hampton. Chickasaw County was founded on January 15, 1851. It was named after theChickasaw tribe, which lived in the Southern United States at the time.

The first white settlers came in 1848 and the first county seat was from 1854 in Bradford, in the southwestern corner of the county. In the spring of 1857, the seat was moved to New Hampton, located near the geographic center, and was then called Chickasaw Center. The first offices needed of the county government were housed in private houses and the school building. In 1865, the first courthouse was erected, which was expanded in 1876, and completely destroyed by a fire on March 26, 1880

Wikiphoto Chickasaw County court house built in 1929