Tabor is a city in Fremont County and extends northward into Mills County in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,014 at the time of the 2020 census.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.
History
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In 1852 the city of Tabor was founded by "a few families from Oberlin, Ohio, almost all of them Congregationalists," "generous people, early settlers from New England and Ohio who had brought with them Puritan ideas of religion, and Sumner's and Phillips' and Garrison's ideas of freedom." Among them were the Christian clergymen George Gaston, Samuel A. Adams, and Rev. John Todd, and their families. They chose to settle in what is now Tabor in order to found a Christian college, which eventually became Tabor College. The founders were impressed with this high location and mutually selected the name "Tabor" after the Biblical name of Mount Tabor, a mountain near Nazareth, the town of Jesus' childhood.
The town was the home of many abolitionists; Rev. Todd, co-founder of Tabor College, was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. The residents of Tabor held monthly abolitionist prayer meetings, and helped runaway slaves whenever they could. It was operated by the college.