Overlooking the scenic Cedar River in downtown Waterloo, the Waterloo Center for the Arts offers something creative for the entire family: changing gallery exhibits, classes, outstanding facility rentals, special events,… Read the full story »
Watson’s Grocery Store Museum
Watson’s Grocery Store was built in 1895 and continued, virtually unchanged, until 1989. Soon after, the State Center Historical Society was formed to save Watson’s Grocery as a landmark and… Read the full story »
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Winneshiek County Historical Society-Locust School Museum
Locust School, built in 1854 and operated continuously for 108 years, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The School Committee of the Historical Society was founded in… Read the full story »
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Ushers Ferry Historic Village
Located near Seminole Valley Park, Ushers Ferry offers nine restored homes, businesses and civic buildings that are ADA accessible and open to tour in an early 20th century village setting… Read the full story »
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University of Northern Iowa Marshall Center School
The Marshall Center School is a one-room school museum located on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa that has been restored as it was in the early 1920s,… Read the full story »
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University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
Explore your world at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History–Iowa’s gateway to the global environment. Take a trip back in time through 500 million years of our natural… Read the full story »
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Tyden Farm No. 6
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this farmstead was originally owned by Emil Tyden, a Swedish immigrant and mechanical genius holding 200 patents during his lifetime. The sixth… Read the full story »
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Wallace Centers of Iowa
The restored home of Uncle Henry and Nancy Wallace, founding editors of Wallaces’ Farmer magazine, highlights the most influential family of American agriculture. Family and political artifacts include original Ding… Read the full story »
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Tabor Home Vineyards and Winery
Tabor Home Winery, Iowa’s oldest estate winery is located on our family’s 1860s Jackson County farmstead. Tabor Home is renowned for distinguished wines that are defining the federally-established Upper Mississippi… Read the full story »
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Seed Savers Exchange
Heritage Farm, the headquarters of Seed Savers Exchange, is an 890-acre living museum of our garden heritage. Display gardens surrounding the Visitors Center grow hundreds of heirloom fruits and vegetables,… Read the full story »
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