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Seeing row after row of lavender stretching out in front of you in a purple haze, is a beautiful sight. The fragrance hangs in the air and with the steady hum of the bees, soothes and tranquilizes the senses. Date: 25 July 2008, 07:25: Source: purple haze. Uploaded by Tomer T; Author: Linda Cronin from Farningham, Kent, UK
Hitchcock nature center is a 1,268-acre (513 ha) preserve located near the center of Iowa's Loess Hills and near the Missouri River Valley. This geographical formation is the result of receding glaciers depositing soil during the end of the last Ice Age. The preserve is now designated as a mix of prairie, forest, and Bur Oak Savanna.
[10] [8] Missouri Valley was a true railroad town in the late 1800s. The Sioux City and Pacific's headquarters was there and with it came the associated repair and machine shops, blacksmith, round house, etc. By 1896 population was approaching 4,000 and 25 passenger trains were coming in and out of Missouri Valley each day on 3 different lines ...
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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1958, is located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska. The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation.
The Loess Hills region in Missouri. Today, the hills stretch from the Blood Run Site in South Dakota in the north to Mound City, Missouri in the south. Loess topography can be found at various points in extreme eastern portions of Nebraska and Kansas along the Missouri River valley, particularly near the Nebraska cities of Brownville, Rulo, Plattsmouth, Fort Calhoun, and Ponca, and the Iowa ...
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Carstens Farmstead is a collection of historic buildings located south of Shelby, Iowa, United States.Johan Carstens was a German immigrant who spent eight years living and working in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Davenport, Iowa before settling in Pottawattamie County in 1871, where he established this farm.