Boone, Iowa is about 30 minutes north and slightly west of Des Moines.  These fertile farm fields also yielded some other industries that built a...

When the British entered the Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812, they burned many of the government’s buildings, including the residence of the president. ...

Everyone knows the Pentagon is in Washington.  But did you know the city is home to an Octagon as well?  It may not be as...

If a city grows quickly, we might say it sprang up overnight.  This state capital literally sprang into existence in just one night.  We go...

If you found a great deal on a house of a piece of land, we might say that we ran to get the deal.  In...

Daniel Boone is one of the most famous American frontiersman.  But when he crossed the Mississippi River, he went to work for a country other...

It’s one of the oldest and largest cities on the Mississippi River…and although some may have heard of names like Laclede and Chouteau…why did they...

It’s called the Great Locomotive Chase – an event that occurred in 1862 when a secret force of Union soldiers captured a confederate locomotive and...

It was their goal…yet it was only the half way point of the trip…It was the Pacific Ocean that the Lewis and Clark party longed...

After spotting the Pacific Ocean on November 7th, 1805…Lewis and Clark searched for a suitable location for their winter camp.  The place they resided that...