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• U.S. Route 151 stretches 108 miles (174 km) across Iowa to the Wisconsin border?
• Fort Defiance in Iowa was built to protect a gristmill and sawmill during the Dakota War of 1862?
• William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress?
• the Delhi Dam in northeast Iowa failed on July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River reached record levels?
• the Des Moines Register, "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach-colored paper in 1999?
• Enos Lowe was a founder of Omaha, Nebraska, and an early resident of Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase?
• Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has rare ice age snails that survive living on rock formations cooled from underground ice?
• President Benjamin Harrison's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa, Iowa, was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall?
• Iowa-based Gomaco Trolley Company, founded in 1982, makes replicas of 1902 streetcars?
• algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa?
• Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa?
• Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge, when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge?
• Iowa's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk, despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed?

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