Southeast
Iowa Trivia
-
The Midwest Old Threshers Museum, a farm machinery museum,
is located in Mount Pleasant.
- Renowned
conservationist Aldo Leopold hails from Burlington.
- Bloomfield
was named by drawing a name out of a hat.
- The
first Iowa State Fair was held in Fairfield in 1854.
- Fred
Angell from Muscatine County developed the Maid-Rite sandwich
and to accommodate the demand he established one of America's
first fast-food franchises complete with drive-up and walk-up
windows.
- Muscatine
is the home of the H.J. Heinz Company – the largest canning
plant between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
- Don
Radda of Washington grew
the world's tallest corn stalk in 1946; it was thirty-one
feet and three inches high.
- The
Lewelling House Quaker Shrine in Henry County was considered
the "main office" of the "underground railroad".
- Iowa
artist, Grant Wood, sketched the American Gothic house on
a visit to Wapello County and later painted it as the background
for his world famous painting.
- Iowa's
first school was held in a log cabin in Lee County.
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