While humans have resided in the state for thousands of years, the land we know as Iowa today was primarily dominated by Native Americans, namely the Dakota, Otoe, Ho-Chunk, and Ioway tribes.

It was in Afton where the county’s first courthouse was built, which also functioned as a church and school. A two-story ...

Some tribes have all but lost their identities ... in the territorial region out of which the state of Iowa was created, were removed to Kansas, with some taken to the Oklahoma Territory.

After turning west near Pickle Church, the original Agency Road branched to the south of the current route. A small town called East Grove was located on the southern route. It was founded in 1849 ...