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Nope, not until you pointed that out. Can I call you ****? I will regardless.
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Not sure where it fits, but it's definitely quirky.
There's a clock in the Spillville Clock Museum that Henry Ford offered $1 million for but the siblings only made them recreationally so wouldn't sell it.
$1 million in the early 1900's is a nice chunk of change.
The siblings also never went more than 4 miles from home or something.
There's a clock in the Spillville Clock Museum that Henry Ford offered $1 million for but the siblings only made them recreationally so wouldn't sell it.
$1 million in the early 1900's is a nice chunk of change.
The siblings also never went more than 4 miles from home or something.
The siblings also
The whole thing with the disputed southern border, the honey war.
The southern border isn't a straight line, it's slightly bent. You can see the further east it goes, the "shorter" the counties are.
The southern border isn't a straight line, it's slightly bent. You can see the further east it goes, the "shorter" the counties are.
I know I’ve posted this before, but the coal mine posts reminded me of the most interesting little known bit of Iowa history:
https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/buxton-lost-utopia
https://iowaculture.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/buxton-lost-utopia
Yeah I agree on the area. I just think stating “Iowa is the most transformed state” is kind of stupid because it’s something that’s subjective and not really quantifiable.
Also, how transformed is it for me to raise corn (a grass crop) on land that used to be prairie grass?
One of the world's largest model train sets is between the towns of Colfax and Mingo on highway 117, Trainland USA.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.la...owa-travel-0716-20170630-story.html?_amp=true
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.la...owa-travel-0716-20170630-story.html?_amp=true
Can't forget Audubon Iowa with the world's largest statue of a bull, Albert (it's my hometown)
Or the big cottonwood tree in the middle of the intersection just south of Audubon near Exira.
Actually there were many indications in their story that they were on the spectrum.
Quite a bold statement there.
I remember being told by a professor at ISU that due to wind breaks, and shrub trees that grow up in fencelines (no grazing or prairie fire pressure) that Iowa actually has more trees today than at the time of European settlement.
I'd like to know what the NE portion and Mississippi looked like at the time though.
I bet that certainly was the case, and might still be. Trees were pretty much limited to fire resistant oaks and hickory in most of the state. The prairie pothole region was mostly wetlands and shallow lakes until it was tiled.
I'd guess NE IA and some areas in southern Iowa generally speaking had more forests before white settlers. Everywhere else probably increased tree concentrations quite a bit. Every town and farm in most of Iowa would represent a higher density of trees than would probably be naturally occurring.
From my understanding, it wasn't much different. The ridge tops actually had prairie grass, and you can see that naturally occurring today in places like Effigy Mounds. At a certain elevation maybe the trees would peel back and you would have islands of prairie.
I would really like to see the expanse of prairie in it's natural habitat. I grew up in Mitchell County, and have read Hamlin Garland's "Son of the Middle Border". In it he describes moving from the hollows around La Crosse, WI to just north of Osage, and how it once you got a few days wagon ride into Iowa you came out of a mix of forest and grass and out into this endless sea of grass. Sounds pretty amazing.
Beaconsville is the site of the first Hy-Vee grocery store, 1930. The original store still stands and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Don't forget about Algona. Home of the world's largest Cheeto.
Sac City has, or used to have, the worlds largest popcorn ball........and of course home of Sac Liquor Store
In my small hometown in North Iowa there is an full mount of an albino deer on display. The deer lived near town for its whole life. Was born in 1980 and died in 1988 of old age and pneumonia. My late grandfather was the vet in town and when it was seen lying on the ground in 1988 he was called out and with my some help got the deer in a nearby barn and administered an IV but it died that day. This deer is part of the reason why hunters in iowa can't shoot a deer that is more than 50% white.
Ames, Iowa was named in 1870 after Oakes Ames, a congressman considered to be one of the most influential people in the building of the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad.
In 1872, there was a scandal involving Ames selling shares to fellow congressmen for well below market value. A House investigation formally recommended expulsion.
Don't name cities after people that are still living.
In 1872, there was a scandal involving Ames selling shares to fellow congressmen for well below market value. A House investigation formally recommended expulsion.
Don't name cities after people that are still living.
