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Steamboat in Iowa City, 1868. As thousands of settlers poured into Iowa in the mid-19th century, all shared a common concern for the development of adequate transportation. The earliest settlers shipped their agricultural goods down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana. Steamboats were in widespread use on the Mississippi and major ...
The Dakota pushed southward into much of Iowa in the 18th and 19th centuries. They often encountered European-American settlers. [3] In 1840, the translator Isaac Galland noted several Dakota groups in or near Iowa, including Wahpekute, North Sisseton, South Sisseton, East Wahpetonwan, West Wahpetonwan, Yankton, and Mdewakantonwan. [9]
The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1587296857. Shambaugh, Bertha Maude Horack (1908). Amana: The Community of True Inspiration. Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa. Webber, Philip E. (2009). Kolonie-Deutsch: Life and Language in Amana. Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press.
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.
The archaeology of Iowa is the study of the buried remains of human culture within the U.S. state of Iowa from the earliest prehistoric through the late historic periods. When the American Indians first arrived in what is now Iowa more than 13,000 years ago, they were hunters and gatherers living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape.
Settlers had defeated the Sauk, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk during the 1832 Black Hawk War, resulting in lopsided treaties ceding land to the settlers. Future treaties forced out these and Dakota peoples and opened nearly all land to settlers. [3] As a territory, Iowa had a small number of enslaved people (16 counted in the 1840 census). When Iowa ...
Meskwakiinaki, [3] also called the Meskwaki Settlement, is an unincorporated community in Tama County, Iowa, United States, west of Tama. [4] It encompasses the lands of the Meskwaki Nation (federally recognized as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa), one of three Sac and Fox tribes in the United States.
Henry Anson was the first European settler in what is now called Marshalltown. In April 1851, Anson found what he described as “the prettiest place in Iowa.” [6] On a high point between the Iowa River and Linn Creek, Anson built a log cabin. A plaque at 112 West Main Street marks the site of the cabin. [7]