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Fun Facts About Iowa

• Dubuque is the state's oldest city. 
• Spirit Lake is the largest glacier-made lake in the state.  
• Imes Bridge is the oldest of Madison County's six bridges. 
• Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River.   
• The Holliwell Bridge is the longest bridge in Madison County. 
• Francis Drake was 66 years old at his inauguration and Iowa's oldest governor. 
• The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art houses the largest collection of Grant Wood artwork. 
• Wright County has the highest percentage of grade-A topsoil in the nation. 
• Quaker Oats, in Cedar Rapids, is the largest cereal company in the world. 
• Cornell College is the only school in the nation to have its entire campus listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Iowa's only operating antique carousel is located in the city of Story City. 
• Sabula is Iowa's only town on an island. 
• Herbert Hoover, a West Branch native, was the 31st president of the United States and the first one born west of the Mississippi. 
• Born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, John Wayne was the son of a pharmacist and grew up to become one of Hollywood's most popular movie stars. 
• Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County. They're called Winnebago's. 
• Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100% formed by water.
  Missouri and Mississippi rivers. 
• The famous actor John Wayne was born in Winterset on May 26, 1907.
• Iowa City is home to the University of Iowa Hawkeyes…Go Hawks!