Tama is located a few miles from the Meskwaki Settlement, Iowa's only significant Native American community.

The University of Iowa was founded February 25, 1847 as Iowa's first public institution of higher learning, only 59 days after Iowa became a state.

He is only the second Iowan to serve six terms in the Senate ; the other being Iowa's longest-serving Senator, William B. Allison.

Harkin has served in the Senate longer than any Democrat in Iowa's history, and only Neal Smith has served in Congress longer among Iowa Democrats.

He redshirted the 1997 – 98 season, losing only one match to Iowa's Paul Jenn in the finals of the University of Northern Iowa Open in November 1997 by a score of 6-4.

It was originally planned as the Delair Bridge, after a paralleling vertical lift bridge owned by Pennsylvania Railroad ( now used by Conrail and NJ Transit's Atlantic City Line ), but was instead named for Betsy Ross, reputed creator of the first American flag, making it only the second bridge in the United States to be named after a woman ( after Iowa's Kate Shelley High Bridge in 1912 ).

Originally ISCABBS was run on the University of Iowa's Engineering Departments Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network " ICAEN " and accessibile only by engineering students.

He helped lead the Hawkeyes to the Alamo Bowl that season, but he had only two carries before being forced to leave due to an injury in Iowa's 19-16 win.

Fort Madison ( 1808-1813 ), the scene of Iowa's only military battle.

Fort Madison was constructed in 1808 to control trade along the Mississippi, and to prevent the reoccupation of the area by the British ; Fort Madison was defeated in 1813 by British-allied Indians during the War of 1812 and was the site of Iowa's only true military battle.

It was Iowa's only win of the year.

After scoring Iowa's only touchdown in a 13-6 loss to Wisconsin, Solem wrote sports editor Sec Taylor from Syracuse, " I was sure that Kinnick was destined to be the greatest back in all Iowa history, and I am more convinced than ever that he will be.

Iowa's only touchdown was scored when Nile Kinnick switched to right halfback for the first time all season from his usual left halfback spot, and the Notre Dame defense was caught unprepared by the switch.

In, Mitre started off on Triple-A Iowa's roster, and on May 10,, he was recalled from Iowa, only to be sent down after two games and not pitching in either.

He lost a 1970 campaign to unseat Republican Congressman Fred Schwengel in Iowa's 1st congressional district by only 765 votes ( out of over 120, 000 cast ).

In 2005, Ray became the only Governor or former Governor to have received Iowa's highest civilian honor, the Iowa Award, by the Iowa Centennial Memorial Commission.

Connolly's hometown of Dubuque was a Democratic-leaning city at the edge of Iowa's strongly-Republican 3rd congressional district, which in Connolly's lifetime had elected only Republicans.

For the only time since 1857, Iowa's congressional delegation included only one Republican.

KCCK is Iowa's only jazz radio station.

It is Iowa's only comprehensive, tertiary-level center and also its premier medical facility.

Iowa's faculty includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, five former clerks to U. S. Supreme Court justices, and numerous members of the nation ’ s most prestigious scholarly academies:

St. Louis was on Iowa's thirty-five-yard line with a few seconds to play.

In Sosna v. Iowa,, the plaintiff represented a class that was challenging an Iowa law that required persons to reside there for a year before seeking a divorce in Iowa's courts.

The county's Courthouse was built in September, 1843 in the style of Greek Revival and stands as Iowa's oldest, and the nation's second oldest, courthouse in operation .< ref >

The county was named in honor of George W. Jones, one of Iowa's first United States Senators.

Following Kelo v. City of New London, Vilsack vetoed but was overridden on Iowa House file 2351, a bill to restrict Iowa's use of eminent domain.

When elected governor at age 36, Branstad was the youngest chief executive in Iowa's history and when he left office, was Iowa's longest-serving governor.

In 1991, Branstad ignored binding arbitration with employees of the State of Iowa's labor unions by vetoing a salary bill, was taken to court, and lost later in appeals in the state court system ( AFSCME Iowa Council 61 et al., v. Branstad ).

Balltown is home to Breitbach's Country Dining, Iowa's oldest restaurant and bar, which was founded in 1852 and rebuilt after its destruction in 2007.

In 1868, he successfully desegregated Iowa's public schools by suing the Muscatine board after his daughter Susan was turned away from her neighborhood school.

The sod house was built by the Brownlie Brothers dates from Iowa's prairie days of the 1830s.

In 1916, the line was incorporated into the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railroad, Iowa's longest Interurban line.

Historian Walter A. McDougall quotes Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, the founder of Iowa's Grinnell College, as saying, " I was the young man to whom Greeley first said it, and I went.

* The University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business was named by Business Week as one of the top fifty business schools in the nation.

The University of Iowa's main campus, located in Iowa City, was originally designed by architect D. Elwood Cook.

Known as one of the best visiting team locker rooms in the Big Ten Conference, it was initially painted a bright pink, a color thought to affect the play of the visiting team ( similar to Iowa's pale pink visiting locker room ).

In 1862, in the midst of the war, Allison was elected to the United States House of Representatives as the representative of Iowa's newly-created 3rd congressional district.

Allison declined to be a candidate for renomination to his own House seat later that year, but instead focused on laying the groundwork to run for Iowa's other Senate seat ( then held by James Harlan ), which was up in January 1872, following November 1871 state legislative races.

He continued to serve as the Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district for two additional terms, but was defeated in the Democratic landslide in 1964.

Hayden Fry was hired as Iowa's 25th head football coach after the 1978 season.

Iowa's final regular season game in 1990 was against Minnesota, and Iowa entered the game with records of 8 – 2 overall and 6 – 1 in the Big Ten.

Iowa's season ending win against Minnesota in 1991 was win number ten on the season, tying the school record for wins in a season.