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This is the Place
Iowa is an Indian word meaning "this is the place" or "beautiful land."
The first Europeans
known to have en1
tered Iowa countrv
were Marquette and Joliet in 1673. In '* 1680 Father Hennepin 1 ravelled across the area. Ju lien Dubuque estahlislied the lit -I white settlement after 1785. to mine lead, but Indians drove most of the miners permanently underground in 1810. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark expedition camped in "Ioway," as it was then known, and roasted buffalo without benefit of charcoal. Fort Madison, built in 1808. \\n> temporarily abandoned in 1813 because of the ton-orial talent of its reluctant Indian host.
Iowa was governed as part of the Territory of Indiana in 1801 and 1805; by the Louisiana Territory from 1805 to 1812; by the Missouri Territory to 1821. Unorganized for the next thirteen years, it was part of the Michigan Territory from 1834 to 1836, then part of the Wisconsin Territory until 1838, when it became a separate territory. No matter which body administered it, the Indians insisted on their right to practice archery and roast settlers. Not until peace pipes were smoked after the Black Hawk War in 1842 did warwhoops begin to subside and corn start growing in earnest.
Iowa* 55,586 square miles of soil are drained to the easl l>\ the Skunk. Iowa. Wapsipini and Des Moines Rivers into the Mississippi, which forms the entire eastern boundary. Westward drainage is into the Missouri, which separates Nebraska from Iowa and the Big Sioux. which comes between South Dakota and you know what. The northern, or Minnesota, boundary is entirely, and the southern, or Missouri, boundary, is almost all legal fiction; each rundue east-and-west as the surveyor Hie-.
About one-tenth of the nation' food supply currently comes from the area that entered the Union as the 29th state in 1846. Over 95% of the state i in farms. Soil fertility is unsurpassed; 25% of all the Grade A land in the country is in Iowa. The first president of the U.S. to be born west of the Mississippi came from Iowa (hint: he wears high collar1. Yet,
p u i s s a n t though Iowa be in the agriculture department. the value of her manufactured prodin t exceeds that of farm products. This is a handy thing to remember when you hear someone singing "that's where the tall corn grows." It i-. but we're polysided.
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