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Monday, October 10, 2016

6 Weird Iowa Facts

tractor from Madison County's Bridge Festival parade, Iowa
1. Iowa's motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain."

2. The state flag is based on the French flag because the region was part of French Louisiana (and  Spanish Louisiana) during colonial times.

Inside the Iowa Welcome Center near the northern border on I-35
3. Iowa has 99 counties and 100 county seats. Lee County, in the southeastern corner of the state, has two (in 1847, disagreements led to the establishment of two jurisdictions).

4. Manufacturing, surprisingly, is the largest sector of the state's economy (you thought it would be agriculture, didn't you?). Most of the manufacturing is food processing (which is not so surprising).

Outside the John Wayne Birthplace museum, Winterset, Iowa
5. John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, though he moved with his parents to southern California when he was a child.

6. Almost 75% of the state's population was born in Iowa.

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