Levi and Catharine Coffin were Quakers who opposed slavery and worked against it by providing a rest stop and transportation for slaves e...
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Iowa State Capitol Tour
Finished in 1886 after 15 years of construction using 14 million bricks, 11 types of native wood, and 29 types of marble, the Iowa state ...
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Danish Immigrant Museum
September 28, 2017
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HISTORIC BUILDINGS,
IOWA,
MUSEUMS,
PATHS and TRAILS-1 MILE or LONGER,
QUIRKY ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS
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Danish immigrants came to the prairie states in the late 1800s. Many were drawn to the same areas where their relatives and friends had al...
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Durham Museum
The Durham Museum which covers the history of Omaha, Nebraska is housed in a gorgeous art-deco Union Pacific Railway Station built in 1931...
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Champion Mill Historical Park
Nebraska is a farming state with most of the land sown with grains – corn, wheat, oats, and barley. All of these can be ground into flour ...
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Overland Trail Museum
The museum was a WPA project built in 1936 of native rock and constructed to look like an early trading post. Its been added onto over th...
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Wyoming State Museum
Dinosaurs, Native Americans, pioneers, wildlife, National Parks, the Capitol, and mining are all covered in this small museum. Nothing is ...
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Wyoming Territorial Prison Museum
The prison was built in 1872 as a federal prison. It was transferred to the state in 1890 and operated until 1901 when a new prison was bu...
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