Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Strawberry Point, IA

Strawberry Point is a city in Clayton County in northeast Iowa, founded in 1853.

According to the city's own history, Strawberry Point was named by the soldiers, traders, and railroad workers who enjoyed the bountiful wild strawberries found along the area's trails and hillsides.

Strawberry Point is home to the world's largest strawberry, a 15-foot-tall, 12-foot-wide fiberglass statue weighing about 1,400 pounds that stands on a pole in front of City Hall.

The giant strawberry was hoisted into place on June 20, 1967; a windstorm snapped its pole and smashed the fruit five months later, but it was re-erected in the spring of 1968 and has towered over Commercial Street ever since.

Strawberry Point bills itself as 'The Sweetest Place to Grow,' and the strawberry motif runs through the whole town, including its Strawberry Motel and the historic Franklin Hotel.

The Franklin Hotel, built in 1902, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Strawberry Point is the gateway to Backbone State Park, Iowa's oldest state park, which lies just a few miles from town.

Strawberry Point was once known as 'Cream City': its first creamery opened in 1867, and by 1909 its creamery was receiving 30,000 pounds of milk a day and was the largest whole-milk creamery in the nation.

Strawberry Point had 1,155 residents at the 2020 census, living in 508 households, down from a peak of 1,463 people in 1980.

Strawberry Point students are served by the Starmont Community School District, which runs a high school, middle school, and elementary school for the area.