IOWA
Iowa sits at the heart of American agricultural history, with its deep-soiled plains forming part of the most productive farming region in the world, a landscape that has shaped its cultural identity as thoroughly as any monument or landmark. Its visitor highlights include the Effigy Mounds National Monument along the Mississippi River, preserving prehistoric Native American burial mounds in the shape of bears and birds, and the Amana Colonies, a network of seven villages founded by a German religious community in the 1850s that operated as a communal society for nearly a century.
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