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The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI), a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, serves as the official historical repository for the State of Iowa and also provides grants, public education, and outreach about Iowa history and archaeology. The SHSI maintains a museum, library, archives, and research center in Des Moines and ...
The written history of Iowa begins with the proto-historic accounts of Native Americans by explorers such as Marquette and Joliet in the 1680s. Until the early 19th century Iowa was occupied exclusively by Native Americans and a few European traders, with loose political control by France and Spain. [1][2] Iowa became part of the United States ...
Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs is an agency of the Iowa state government, headquartered in Des Moines. Agencies of the department include the Iowa Arts Council, Produce Iowa, the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Iowa City and Des Moines research centers, and the Iowa State Society, Museum, and Preservation agency. [1] The department ...
Becoming a state in 1846, by 1852 Iowans were already considering how to better the prospects for Iowa’s blind population. That year, Samuel Bacon, a blind graduate of Kenyon College with a ...
Several grants helped with the restoration effort. In 2000 the State Historical Society of Iowa Board of Trustees approved a grant for $60,000 towards the project. [ 11 ] In 2007 Project Restore received a $545,000 grant from Vision Iowa, a state program that provides money for major tourism attractions. [ 2 ]
Iowa became the 29th state in 1846 during James K. Polk's presidency. A year before, a proposed northern border went as far as St. Paul, Minnesota.
After a thirty-year preservation effort culminated with the donation of the house in 1991 to the State Historical Society of Iowa, the site now includes the original house in its 1930 form and a visitors center. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Since 1991, various caretaker-occupants have continued to ...
One of Iowa's nine regional Area Education Agencies, Grant Wood Area Education Agency was established in 1974 and serves Eastern Iowa. [24] In 2009, Grant was awarded the Iowa Prize, the state's highest citizen honor. [25] The Grant Wood Art Colony grew out of Jim Hayes’s 1975 purchase of Wood's historic Iowa City home at 1142 Court Street.