Woolstock, IA

Woolstock is a city in Wright County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 144 residents. Woolstock township was established in 1858, and its first Post Office for Woolstock was in 1868, located near the location of the Historic French Church, about 3 miles east of the town's location today. Woolstock was relocated when platted by the Western Town Lot Company in 1881, that relocated many rural communities towards newly laid railroad lines. The district covers area of Wright, Humboldt, and Webster counties, and serves the communities of Eagle Grove, Thor, Vincent, Woolstock, Iowa|Woolstock, and the surrounding rural areas. The short version is that Woolstock carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Woolstock: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Woolstock is located just north of Eagle Creek's confluence with the Boone River.