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Most northeastern and southeastern states were heavily timbered; settlers there had material for building homes, outbuildings, and fences. Moreover, wood also provided ample fuel. Once past the extreme eastern portion of Iowa, settlers quickly discovered that the state was primarily a prairie or tall grass region. Trees grew abundantly in the ...
William Abbe (c. 1800–1854) served on the Iowa Council and is believed to have been the first white settler in Linn County, Iowa. Originally from Ohio, he traveled west in search of land in 1836. Little is known about Abbe until this time. Abbe Creek, on which he established his homestead, still bears his name today.
This is the 1844 plat for Fort Des Moines, which is two years before Iowa becomes a state (1846), five years before the first edition of the Des Moines Register's predecessor, the Iowa Star, is ...
They married and she returned with him to Sioux City. In the 1860s, they settled on a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) farm in the Salix, Iowa area. On February 18, 1896, Bruguier died from pneumonia. He was interred at the Catholic cemetery near Salix. In 1926, he was re-buried near the grave of his first two wives and War Eagle. [1]
The area was closed to white settlers until the 1830s, after the Black Hawk War ended. It was attached to the Michigan Territory on June 28, 1834. At an extra session of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Michigan held in September, 1834, the Iowa District was divided into two counties by running a line due west from the lower end of Rock Island ...
Fort Atkinson State Preserve is a state preserve of Iowa, USA, containing the remnants of Fort Atkinson, a U.S. Army frontier post created to keep the peace between various Native American tribes as well as prevent white settlers from encroaching on Indian lands.
Jessie DePriest on the date of her White House tea with First Lady Lou Henry Hoover on June 12, 1929. ... as a park ranger at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. March is Iowa History Month ...
Decorah is located approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of the Minnesota-Iowa border. It is the northernmost major community located along U.S. Route 52 in Iowa . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.04 square miles (18.23 km 2 ), of which 7.01 square miles (18.16 km 2 ) is land and 0.03 square miles (0. ...