East Central Iowa Trivia

• Sabula is the only Iowa town on an island.
• Norma Duffield Lyon (Duffy Lyon), a dairy farmer and sculptor from Tama County, has molded the butter cow for many years at the Iowa State Fair.
• William Bettendorf invented the power-lift sulky (two wheeled) plow, which was immediately adopted by 80% of plowing manufacturers.
• In 1912, the first county Farm Bureau in Iowa was organized in Clinton County.
• James "Tama Jim" Wilson, came from a farm near Traer to serve as the Secretary of Agriculture under three presidents.
• Herbert Hoover from West Branch was the thirty-first president of the United States and the only one from Iowa.
• Iowa's first capitol was located in Iowa City.
• Center Junction was so named because it was the geographic center of the county and was supposed to be the junction of two railroads.
• Mary Ingalls, sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, graduated from the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School in Vinton.