North Central Iowa Tourism
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Seven B Ranch - Webster City, Iowa
Seven B Ranch - Webster City, Iowa
This area near Webster City, Iowa, is a unique setting for educational field trips for both young and old.
The privately owned ranch offers a variety of recreational opportunities for residents and visitors. The 70 acre ranch includes a restored barn, seven lakes, a horse pasture, petting zoo, canoeing, and beautiful flower and vegetable gardens, all combining with the natural beauty and wildlife of the area.
Settlement Of The Prairie Park - Ackley, Iowa
Settlement Of The Prairie Park - Ackley, Iowa
In this small park in Ackley, Iowa visitors can look at depictions of early prairie life. Featured in the area are the 1870 Limberg house, which has been restored and country school. Nature lovers will enjoy the prairie plantings, native Iowa trees and shrubs, and exhibits of early cash crops.
Restored Clarion Railroad Depot - Clarion, Iowa
Restored Clarion Railroad Depot - Clarion, Iowa
The Clarion Railroad Depot, which celebrated its centennial in 1998, served the Rock Island Railroad for many years. It has been beautifully restored and it now houses railroad memorabilia. It is also used as the headquarters of the area Chamber of Commerce and the local Development Commission.
Quasdorf Blacksmith Wagon Museum - Dows, Iowa
Quasdorf Blacksmith Wagon Museum - Dows, Iowa
This two-story 1899 business building in Dows, Iowa, recently restored, houses various displays of antique tools and equipment dealing with blacksmithing. It originally held the Quasdorf wagon, blacksmith, and machine shop.
The shop is three stories tall, consisting of a main ground floor where the shop is located, a second story used for storage, and a basement where the engine for the lineshaft was kept.
Promise Of America - Lake Mills, Iowa
Promise Of America - Lake Mills, Iowa
On a six-acre restored prairie site has been erected a sculpture to represent a Norwegian immigrant family. The statue, sculpted by the late Clifford J. Carlson, is located on the east edge of Lake Mills in a setting of Iowa prairie land. The monument is dedicated with gratitude to the thousands of immigrants who settled in the prairies of the upper midwest in the 1800’s.
Pilot Knob State Park - Forest City, Iowa
Pilot Knob State Park - Forest City, Iowa
This park near Forest City is one of the oldest park units in the Iowa state park system. It was dedicated in 1923. The “pilot knob” ridge is the second highest point in the state. In the 700-acre park is Dead Man’s Lake, a four-acre floating sphagnum bog, the only one of its kind. Trails:The park has excellent trails for hikers and horseback riders. In winter, a warming house with electricity and heat provides comfort for ice skaters, snowmobilers, cross-country skiers and ice fishermen.
Parkersburg Historical Home - Parkersburg, Iowa
Parkersburg Historical Home - Parkersburg, Iowa
The museum in Parkersburd is located in this Victorian home built in 1895. Visitors will enjoy the wide variety of woodwork in each room, as well as many artifacts of local history.
One of Parkersburg’s most beautiful links to the past is the C.C. Wolf Mansion, now called The Parkersburg Historical Home. The Queen Anne style mansion was built in 1895 as a wedding gift for Wolf and his bride Mary Wilson.
OLD BRADFORD PIONEER VILLAGE - Nashua, Iowa
OLD BRADFORD PIONEER VILLAGE - Nashua, Iowa
In this complex have been placed 14 historic buildings from the area. Here one can see a doctor’s office (the owner composed the song about the “Little Brown Church in the Vale,” restored log cabins, a depot with a caboose nearby, rural school, and pioneer home. Historic agricultural equipment is also on display.
Mitchell County Historical Society Cedar Valley Memories - Osage, Iowa
Mitchell County Historical Society Cedar Valley Memories - Osage, Iowa
Osage, Iowa has on display are five fully functional antique steam engines: Reeves 40-140 cross compound tractor, 1913 Case model 110, 1910 Phoenix Caterpillar log hauler, 1922 32-hp Advance-Rumley, and 1878 Bluementrit two-cylinder. Home of the Smolik exhibit of steam engines, vintage machinery and an old railroad depot.
MEREDITH WILLSON BOYHOOD HOME - Mason City, Iowa
MEREDITH WILLSON BOYHOOD HOME - Mason City, Iowa
Description – In this 1895 modified Queen Anne Style home, Meredith Willson, who immortalized his hometown in the musical The Music Man, was born in 1902. The house is now filled with family memorabilia and period furnishings.
A home-town boy who made it big, Meredith Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa on May 18, 1902. The performing bug bit him early on, but his first love was always his music.
