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Prior to opening a business in Deadwood, Swearengen operated a dance house in Custer, South Dakota.As stated in the 1882 New Year Edition of the Black Hills Pioneer, which described the early history of Custer, "Al Swearengen was running a dance house of 30X150 feet in dimensions and day and night a man had to push and crowd to get into it."
The entire town has been designated as a National Historic Landmark District, for its well-preserved Gold Rush-era architecture. The town has five unique history museums that are operated by Deadwood History, inc., a non-profit organization. Deadwood's proximity to Lead often prompts the two towns being collectively named "Lead-Deadwood".
Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City and part of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coralville incorporated as a city in 1873. The city's name comes from the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. 26 North Liberty: 20,479 Johnson: The North Liberty area was first settled in 1838 by John Gaylor and Alonzo C. Dennison.
For all her life, author Rachelle Chase traveled from place to place. Then she began researching the "bBack utopia" of Buxton, Iowa.
Deadwood The most legendary city in South Dakota — and perhaps the most iconic of the Old West — is Deadwood. Its Oyster Bay was a legend before being featured on the Travel Channel. Famous ...
Deadwood was a lawless, rowdy camp. According to several historians, including John Ames in "The Real Deadwood" and Kenneth C. Kellar in "Seth Bullock: Frontier Marshal Deadwood", days after Bullock and Star's arrival, Wild Bill Hickok was murdered by Jack McCall. McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head while he sat playing poker.
This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Iowa. Donnan, Iowa memorial sign, showing the former location of the City of Donnan. Ghost towns. Town name
From Glenwood to Burlington, RAGBRAI will visit scenic, historic towns in southern Iowa. ... He covers retail, real estate and RAGBRAI for the Des Moines Register. He can be reached at 515-284 ...