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Sheffield, IA is located at (42.893649, −93.217067 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5.58 square miles (14.45 km 2 ), of which 5.55 square miles (14.37 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2 ) is water.
Herbert Melville "Hub" Hoxie (December 18, 1830 to November 23, 1886) was a pioneer, abolitionist, railroad executive and the first Republican United States Marshal in the State of Iowa during the American Civil War. [1] He is closely associated with Jay Gould, Grenville Dodge and the early Republican Party.
It formed in 1960 as the result of the merger between the Sheffield Community School District and the Chapin Community School District. In fall 1988 the district began a whole-grade sharing agreement, in which students from one school district attend another district's schools for certain levels, with the Meservey–Thornton Community School District.
A 1920 photo of a battery-powered University of Iowa Hospital bus in front of the original 1897 hospital, indicating Iowa City had electric vehicles 100 years before they became popular today.
Future First Lady Lou Henry was born in Waterloo in 1874 and spent her first 10 years there and Shell Rock. In 1884, her parents, Florence Ida Weed Henry and Charles Delano Henry, moved the family ...
The Iowa Old Capitol Building is located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was once the main government building for the state of Iowa, and it now stands as the most prominent landmark at the center of the University of Iowa's campus. The building was depicted on the 1946 Iowa Centennial commemorative half dollar. [3]
Iowa became the 29th state in 1846 during James K. Polk's presidency. A year before, a proposed northern border went as far as St. Paul, Minnesota.
The University of Iowa (U of I, UIowa, or Iowa [7]) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and 7 professional degrees. [7]