The largest barn in Iowa: Stone Barn in Stone City.
While researching, I wasn’t able to find a definitive source that would declare that it was indeed the largest barn in Iowa – but there…
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Yellow Smoke Park in Denison, Iowa
Address: 2237 Yellow Smoke Road, Denison, Iowa Website: Yellow Smoke Park A 40-acre lake with camping, cabins, fishing, swimming and a 4-mile paved walking/biking trail…
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50,000 gallons per minute – Old Jumbo Geyser in Belle Plaine
When the city of Belle Plaine, Iowa wanted a new water source, they put out a bid for the work. The award went to the…
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Bee Branch Creek Greenway in Dubuque
Following a storm in 1999, the city of Dubuque began focusing on this area of frequent flooding. They turned the sewer lines back into a…
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Youngsville Cafe
It’s located along the old Lincoln Highway, now Highway 30, near Watkins, Iowa. The cafe was built in 1931 by Joe Watkins, who set it…
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Why is Onawa’s main street so wide?
Onawa, Iowa has a really serious wide main street – but why? Answer: I did some digging and it seems that there isn’t one clear…
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How Humphrey Parker’s walking stick became the tree in the middle of the road
I received a copy of “The Parker Family Tree: The Parker family of Cass County, Iowa. Its origins and passages” by Mary Rendleman Gilchrist. Congrats…
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Get your selfie with the American Gothic farmer and daughter.
“God Bless America” is a traveling sculpture by Seward Johnson that is inspired by Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic”. The sculpture has been in the…
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Ghost players mural in Dyersville, Iowa
This mural of players walking through the corn onto the field is located in Dyersville, Iowa at the intersection of 1st Ave and 2nd Street….
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My favorite place to watch for Perseid meteors.
The Perseid meteor shower typically peaks around Aug 12th or 13th and can display anywhere from 60 to 100 meteors per hour. Of course, the…
