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Within the Des Moines metropolitan area, the park preserves a bottomland hardwood forest featuring the largest natural stand of black walnut trees in North America. [2] The Raccoon River meanders through the 260-acre (110 ha) park, providing fishing and canoeing opportunities. The park also provides picnic areas, a limestone lodge built in the ...
Wilson Island State Recreation Area is a 544-acre (220 ha) state recreation area in Harrison County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Missouri Valley. The park, which is named for Iowa governor George A. Wilson, encompasses a forested area along the Missouri River. The recreation area includes a boat ramp and fishing sites along the river.
Features a 187-acre (76 ha) recreational reservoir and a display of geodes, the Iowa state rock. George Wyth Memorial State Park: Black Hawk County: Waterloo: 1,200 490: 1940: Cedar River and several lakes: Protects a natural area within the Waterloo – Cedar Falls metropolitan area. Green Valley State Park: Union County: Creston: 990 400 [14 ...
Waubonsie State Park is a state park in Fremont County, Iowa, United States, located in the Loess Hills region. It is named for Chief Wabaunsee of the Potawatomi people. Waubonsie State Park is located in the unique Loess Hills, a landform found only along the Missouri River in Iowa and Missouri. As glaciers melted 14,000 to 28,000 years ago ...
[10] [8] Missouri Valley was a true railroad town in the late 1800s. The Sioux City and Pacific's headquarters was there and with it came the associated repair and machine shops, blacksmith, round house, etc. By 1896 population was approaching 4,000 and 25 passenger trains were coming in and out of Missouri Valley each day on 3 different lines ...
Juglans hindsii, commonly called the Northern California black walnut and Hinds's black walnut, is a species of walnut tree native to the western United States (California and Oregon). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is commonly called claro walnut by the lumber industry and woodworkers, and is the subject of some confusion over its being the root stock ...
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According to articles in old Lumberman journals and newsletters, that lumber yard did not use the Gordon-Van Tine moniker, but rather operated, first, under the name Funck Lumber. A 1915 issue of Mississippi Valley Lumberman newsletter references the use of the Funk (sic) Lumber yard by Gordon-Van Tine, [12] and the January 18, 1919 issue of ...