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2393939 [2] Website. altoona-iowa.com. Altoona is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States, and part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. The population was 19,565 at the 2020 census. [3] It is home to the Adventureland amusement park and Prairie Meadows horse racing track and casino.
Adventureland Resort, Altoona, Iowa, ... It is the park's sixth roller coaster and the second-largest investment on a ride in Adventureland history behind the Monster.
History and information. In 1984, Prairie Meadows received a license from the Iowa Racing and Gaming commission to operate a horse racing facility after parimutuel betting was legalized by the state the previous year. In 1987, groundbreaking ceremonies were held for Prairie Meadows. Prairie Meadows conducted its first day of racing on March 1 ...
Website. www.polkcountyiowa.gov. Polk County is located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 492,401. [1] It is Iowa's most populous county, and home to over 15% of the state's residents. The county seat is Des Moines, [2] which is also the capital city of Iowa. Polk County is included in the Des Moines– West ...
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 Highway 330 (Iowa 330) is a 47-mile-long (76 km) state highway that travels northeasterly from Altoona past Albion, to just north of Marshalltown in Marshall County. Originally the two-lane, unpaved road was numbered Iowa 88. It became part of Iowa 64 in the 1903s and it received its current route number in 1969.
The Dragon was an O.D. Hopkins steel roller coaster located at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa.The coaster opened for Adventureland's sixteenth season of operation on May 12, 1990, and was partially dismantled during the spring/summer of 2020 to make way for the Dragon Slayer 4D Freespin.
John Houbolt. John Cornelius Houbolt (April 10, 1919 – April 15, 2014) was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. [2]