History:
In 1866, Woodbine, Iowa, was named from a vine in England and began it's growth as a trade center. A well balanced community with locally owned utilities, a variety of housing, an excellent school system, industrial growth, added facilities for health and extended care, a focus on youth and community development, an expanded Carnegie Library, and added recreational activities. A unique city with seven churches, and an old country school and railroad museums, an annual rodeo and Applefest festival.

One of the first settlers in 1849 to Boyer Township was Lorenzo and Ann Butler. Mr. Butler is said to have had the first store in the growing settlement. In true frontier fashion, the Post Office was located in the store. Mrs. Butler was the first Postmistress and she was allowed to name the office. Remembering the flowering vine, which had clambered around the door and windows of her English home, she chose the name "Woodbine". In 1854 a saw mill and corn cracker were erected about a ½ mile east of the present town. In 1862 a woolen mill was added and after the Civil War, a flour mill was built. The town was platted in 1866, the same year in which the Chicago Northwestern Railroad began regular runs from Cedar Falls to Council Bluffs.