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Iowa History and State Facts

Iowa is bounded on the East by  Wisconsin and Illinois, on the South by Missouri, on the West by Nebraska and South Dakota, and on the North by Minnesota.
  

 

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Iowa history and information for your genealogy research and the names of certain government employees or officials.
 
  • First settled at Dubuque about 1833.

  • Became the 29th state on December 28, 1846.

  • Capital is Des Moines

  • 1890 population 1,911,896.
      

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