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American actor John Wayne was born in a house on South 2nd Street in Winterset, Iowa, on May 26th, 1907. Born Marion Robert Morrison, he only spent a few early years in Winterset, where his father was a pharmacist, before the family moved, eventually settling in Southern California. The house still stands today and has been restored to reflect its Read more...
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The Iowa State Fair is held annually on the Iowa State Fairgrounds at East 30th and East University in Des Moines. It is one of the largest and oldest agricultural fairs in the United States and has been held at the current site since 1886. The Fair runs for around 11 days in August every year and traditionally ends two Read more...
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Buddy Holly’s airplane crashed in a field 5 miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa, in the early hours of February 3rd, 1959. He was killed, along with the plane’s other occupants, musicians J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot, Roger Peterson. The crash site is a half mile walk across private farmland on a path that Read more...