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The construction of the Des Moines Center of Science and Industry was initially sponsored by the Junior League of Des Moines. The first location seriously considered was Union Park, a park in the East side of Des Moines on the Des Moines River. In 1965, fund raising began in earnest, with an anonymous $100,000 donation and $30,000 from the ...
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Location of Des Moines in Polk County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Des Moines, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
U.S. Highway 63 was designated along Primary Roads No. 13, 24, and 2, which was the Daniel Boone Trail from Missouri to Des Moines. [6] Once the U.S. Highway System was established, the automobile association-sponsored roads gradually disappeared. [8] A map of Iowa's U.S. Highways as laid out in 1926
The road was renamed Beaver Avenue in 1903 and was later improved in 1917 with brick paving. The entire northwest section of Des Moines was commonly known as "Urbandale" until 1917, when the name was formally adopted by an adjacent suburban village. Soon afterwards, city residents from the area met and selected "Beaverdale" as the name to ...
Des Moines (/ d ə ˈ m ɔɪ n / ⓘ də-MOYN) is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County with parts extending into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines, which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857. [6]
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Downtown Des Moines is defined by the City of Des Moines as located between the Des Moines River to the east, the Raccoon River to the south, Center Street to the north, and 18th and 15th Streets to the west. [1] In 2014, Downtown Des Moines was listed as the number one "up-and-coming downtown" in America, by Fortune.com. [2]