Iowa Travel Destinations and Hotels Guide

Iowa Travel Destinations and Hotels Guide - Lodging Discounts Info, Iowa Tourism Guides and Discount Hotels Guide For: Amana Colonies, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City and Winterset.

Although at times serene, and almost always verdant, nothing about the State of IOWA truly stands out: this 56,000 square mile chunk of the Great Plains doesnt even manage to be completely flat, it just wobbles up and down a little. Iowa is the very essence of small town America, close to the geographical center of the mainland America, and ranking decidedly average in size, population and level of personal income. Even the cities seem at times to be merely villages grown large.

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The history of Iowa, too, has been relatively uneventful. It was opened for settlement after the Black Hawk Treaty of 1832, a one-sided exercise in negotiations with the Sauk Indians, conducted after many of them had been chased down and killed in neighboring Wisconsin and Illinois. The Northern European immigrants who replaced them made agricultural development their prime concern, turning Iowa into the "Food basket of America", a role it generally achieves with scrupulous efficiency.

Tourist attractions in Iowa are few and far between; its most visited destination is the throwback Germanic enclave of the Amana Colonies . However, Iowa does also hold a few oddball sites, such as the original locations for the movies The Bridges of Madison County in south central Winterset Iowa, birthplace of John Wayne, and Field of Dreams near Dubuque in the northeast. You can also see, but not enter, the original house that featured in Grant Woods much parodied American Gothic painting at Eldon in the south east, and now owned by the state of Iowa.

Iowa Tourism
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