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Fort Madison became the Army’s problem solver
It was a moneymaker for early Iowa. It had vacant rooms, no-nonsense staff galore, and a creative disregard for the niceties of law and order. It was the Fort Madison penitentiary, and in 1874, it was discovered by the U.S. Army. In the 1870s and ’80s, the …
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Burlington Hawk Eye - Iowa
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