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Iowaville Des Moines River trading town
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Flint and stone tools
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Large cents, square nails, ceramic sherds.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), James St. John (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1838-1870 river trading town
Town platted in 1838 by trader John Jordan near earlier trading posts and an Ioway village, where Black Hawk spent his last years. It reached perhaps 200 people, was flooded in 1851 and declined fast after the railroad reached Eldon; the post office closed in 1870.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
flood-prone bottomland
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