14．Kalona is the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi River［密西西比河（发源于美国中北部湖沼区，南注墨西哥湾，是世界上最大的河流之一），密西西比州（美国州名）］．
15．The state’s lowest elevation point（at 480feet）is in Lee County．
16．The Holliwell Bridge is the longest bridge in Madison County．
17．Francis Drake was 66years old at his inauguration and Iowa’s oldest governor．
18．Iowa’s oldest continually running theater is in Story City．
19．The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art houses the largest collection of Grant Wood artwork（艺术品，美术品）．
20．Fenlon Place Elevator in Dubuque is the world’s steepest and shortest railway．
21．Wright County has the highest percentage of grade－A topsoil（上层土，表层土）in the nation．
22．Quaker Oats，in Cedar Rapids，is the largest cereal（谷类食品，谷类）company in the world．
23．The Saint Francis Xavier Basilica in Dyersville is the only basilica［（古罗马）长方形会堂，长方形基督教堂］in the United States situated outside a major metropolitan area．
24．Clarion is the only county seat in the exact center of the county．
25．Dubuque is home to the only county courthouse with a gold dome（圆屋顶）．
26．Cornell College is the only school in the nation to have its entire campus listed on the National Register（人口登记）of Historic Places．
27．The Sergeant Floyd Monument in Sioux City honors the only man to die during the Lewis and Clark expedition．
28．Maynard Reece is the only artist to win the Federal Duck Stamp competition five times．
29．A bronze life－sized sculpture of a Norwegian immigrant family circa（大约）1860is located on a six acre restored prairie site located at the east entry to Lake Mills on Highway 105．
30．Iowa’s only operating antique carousel（喧闹的酒会）is located in the city of Story City．
31．Knoxville’s National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum is the only museum in the country dedicated to preserving the history of sprint car（赛车）racing．
32．Iowa’s only fire tower is situated in Yellow River State Forest．
33．Sabula is Iowa’s only town on an island．
34．Herbert Hoover，a West Branch native，was the 31st president of the United States and the first one born west of the Mississippi．
35．Mamie Doud Eisenhower’s birthplace is located in Boone and includes a restored frame house，complete with summer kitchen and original furniture from the family．
36．Van Meter is the hometown of baseball’s Bob Feller，an Iowa farm boy who went on to greatness with the Cleveland Indians during the Golden Age of baseball．
37．Born Donnabelle Mullenger in Denison，Oscar Award－winning actress，Donna Reed，started her career at the young age of 16．
38．Born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset，John Wayne was the son of a pharmacist（配药者，药剂师）and grew up to become one of Hollywood’s most popular movie stars．
39．Meredith Willson，who played with the famous John Philip Sousa and the New York Philharmonic（交响乐团）before launching his career as a famous composer and lyricist（抒情诗人），is a Mason City native．
40．Glenn Miller，noted trombonist（长号手）and orchestra（管弦乐队）leader，was born in Clarinda located in Southwest Iowa．
41．The town of Fort Atkinson was the site of the only fort ever built by the U．S．government to protect one Indian tribe from another．
42．Campers and motor homes are manufactured in Winnebago County．They’re called Winnebago’s．
43．Iowa is the only state whose east and west borders are 100％formed by water．
Missouri and Mississippi rivers．
44．The highest double track railroad bridge in the world，the Kate Shelley Bridge，is located at Boone．
45．Iowa is the only state name that starts with two vowels（元音）．
46．The famous actor John Wayne was born in Winterset on May 26，1907．
47．Iowa State University is the oldest land grant college in the U．S．A．
48．Decorah hosts Nordic Fest a three－day celebration of Decorah’s Scandinavian heritage．
49．The National Balloon Museum in Indianola chronicles（（旧约圣经）历代记）more than 200years of ballooning history．
50．Sheldon High School Summer Theatre，the only high school repertory（仓库）in Iowa and one of just a few in the nation presents a different play for each week in June and July．
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