Historical Marker Series

Iowa: State Historical Society of Iowa

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Marker Front:The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, located in nearby West Branch, honors a distinguished son of Iowa, citizen of the world, and the 31st president of the United States. Established in 1965, the Site's foundations were laid earlier when …
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Marker Front:The land on which Iowa City is located was a wilderness when it was selected and surveyed for the capital of the Territory of Iowa in 1839. The cornerstone of the new capitol building was laid by Governor Lucas on July 4, 1840. The Legislative …
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Marker Front:The land on which Iowa City is located was a wilderness when it was selected and surveyed for the capital of the Territory of Iowa in 1839. The cornerstone of the new capitol building was laid by Governor Lucas on July 4, 1840. The Legislative …
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Marker Front:In 1829, William C. Redfield declared that Davenport lay opposite the future terminus of a "geographical trunk-line route" between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. Nine years later, in 1838, the Iowa Sun and Davenport and Rock Island News decl…
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Marker Front:In 1829, William C. Redfield declared that Davenport lay opposite the future terminus of a "geographical trunk-line route" between the Atlantic and the Mississippi. Nine years later, in 1838, the Iowa Sun and Davenport and Rock Island News decl…
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Marker Front:Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, a native of Vermont, was the person to whom Horace Greeley gave his famous advice "Go West, young man, go West." Grinnell took that advice and in 1854 founded the city that now bears his name. A leader in state governm…
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Historic Dubuque — the Key City of Iowa — formed a part of what became French Louisiana when Joliet and Marquette paddled by in 1673. Perrot taught the Miami Indians how to mine lead here in 1690. France ceded Louisiana west of the Mississippi t…
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The Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, forced from their homes following the murder of their prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr., began their trek across Iowa in 1846 on the way to the Great Salt Lake Valley. From their first permanent campsite on Sugar Creek they travell…
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Several Utopian groups attempted to implement in southern Iowa their dreams of a better social structure. In 1839 Abner Kneeland, a pantheist, started Salubria in Van Buren County. Beset with economic problems, the experiment dissolved after Kneeland died i…
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