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West Point is home to Iowa's Largest Sweet Corn Festival. The first festival was in August 1958. There are nearly 25,000 visitors during the four-day event and over 17 tons of sweet corn. The festival includes free sweet corn and stage entertainment, arts and crafts, bingo, 5K and 10K run, queen crowning, tractor pull, city parade, and teen ...
Both were born in the rural South, where they lived less than 100 miles apart. Wilson was the daughter of freed slaves, Solomon and Delia Rutherford. [59] In April 2005, Wilson moved into a new home funded by donations, in New Albany. She celebrated her 115th birthday in September 2005, and died on February 13, 2006, aged 115 years, 153 days. [58]
Iowa (/ ˈ aɪ. ə w ə / ⓘ EYE-ə-wə) [7] [8] [9] is a state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north.
A list of the 10 longest-lived U.S. presidents, their age and the day they died, if applicable: 1. ... North Carolina State v Duke ... 10. Richard Nixon; 81 years, 103 days; died April 22, 1994 ...
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer in 1879, [39] and the Chicago and North Western built a 64-mile branch to its mines in Muchakinock in 1884. [40] By 1899, Iowa's coal mines employed 11,029 men to produce almost 5 million tons of coal per year. [ 41 ]
He primarily followed Route 50 from west to east, covering a distance of 3,234 miles (5,205 km). [140] Wardian aimed to log around 50 miles (80 km) a day and planned to be on his feet for around 11 to 15 hours a day. He documented his run on Strava and spent his days running with other local runners or listening to audiobooks when running alone.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 539 square miles (1,400 km 2), of which 518 square miles (1,340 km 2) is land and 21 square miles (54 km 2) (4.0%) is water. [8] The lowest point in the state of Iowa is located on the Mississippi River in Keokuk in Lee County, where it flows out of Iowa and into Missouri and ...
Snowfall is common, with Des Moines getting about 26 days of snowfall a year, and other places, such as Shenandoah getting about 11 days of snowfall in a year. [22] Spring ushers in the beginning of the severe weather season. Iowa averages about 50 days of thunderstorm activity per year. [23] The 30-year annual average of tornadoes in Iowa is ...