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Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Fort Madison (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Iowa,
A State of the north-central United States, separated on the east by the Mississippi River from Wisconsin and Illinois. Minnesota bounds it on the north, South Dakota and Nebraska on the west —the Missouri River forming the boundary-line of the latter State—and Missouri on the south.
It is limited in lat. by 40° 36′ to 43° 30′ N., and in long.
by 89° 5′ to 96° 31′ W. Area, 56,025 square miles in ninety-nine counties.
Population, 1890, 1,911,896; 1900, 2,231,853.
Capital, Des Moi nport for the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad, now the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific......Sept. 1, 1853
Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant chartered and opened......1855
Corner-stone of the first railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, between Rock Island and Davenport, lard Sept. 1. 1854; and first locomotive, the Des Moines, to cross the Mississippi passes over......April 21, 1856
Massacre of white settlers at Spirit Lake by a predatory band of Indians un
Ames, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Burlington (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Iowa,
A State of the north-central United States, separated on the east by the Mississippi River from Wisconsin and Illinois. Minnesota bounds it on the north, South Dakota and Nebraska on the west —the Missouri River forming the boundary-line of the latter State—and Missouri on the south.
It is limited in lat. by 40° 36′ to 43° 30′ N., and in long.
by 89° 5′ to 96° 31′ W. Area, 56,025 square miles in ninety-nine counties.
Population, 1890, 1,911,896; 1900, 2,231,853.
Capital, Des Moines.
Father Marquette and Louis Joliet descend the Wisconsin River, reaching its mouth June 17, 1673; 100 miles below, on the western shore of the Mississippi, they discover an Indian trail, which they follow to an Indian village, where Marquette publishes to them the one true God ......June, 1673
Father Louis Hennepin, M. Dugay, and six other Frenchmen ascend the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois to the falls of St. Anthony, leaving Fort Crevecoeur, Ill......Feb. 28, 16
Mason City (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa
Des Moines county (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-iowa