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| Iowa Facts |
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Dubuque is Iowa's oldest city. |
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Meredith Willson, who played with the famous John Philip Sousa and the New York Philharmonic before launching his career as a famous composer and lyricist, is a Mason City Iowa native. |
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The town of Fort Atkinson, Iowa was the site of the only fort ever built by the U.S. government to protect one Indian tribe from another. |
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