Northeast
Iowa Trivia
- Ruth
Sukow, writer, was a bee keeper in Earlville.
- Over
500 weddings are held each year at The Little Brown Church
in Vale, a church made famous by the song "Church in
the Wildwood".
- Strawberry
Point is home to the world's largest strawberry.
- Dr.
Norman Borlaug from Howard County is the only agriculturalist
to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
- Waverly
calls itself the home of the world's largest horse sale.
- John
Froelich from Clayton County invented the gasoline-powered
tractor.
- Situated
two and a half miles southwest of Strawberry Point is Iowa's
oldest state park, Backbone.
- Feather-Lite
Trailers, located in Cresco, is the nation's leading builder
of aluminum livestock, horse and utility trailers.
- The
state's oldest city is Dubuque.
- The
Effigy Mounds in Clayton County are Indian burial and ceremonial
mounds and are one of the oldest American Indian sites in
Iowa.
- The
173-acre Seed Savers Heritage Farm is a living museum of endangered
vegetables, flowers, fruits and herbs - many of them heirloom
varieties passed down by families for generations.
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