map of downtown des moines iowa Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/map-of-downtown-des-moines-iowa Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:16:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Iowa Metro Map http://travelsfinders.com/iowa-metro-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/iowa-metro-map.html#respond Thu, 19 May 2016 15:00:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=204229 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Ames, Iowa, home to Iowa State University, a land-grant institution, is an unlikely place to begin the history of Latinos in Iowa. Perhaps this could be said about Iowa in general. Nonetheless, Ames is the home to two remarkable representations of Latino history that illustrate the migration of Latino culture and people to the state of Iowa. The first, located in the main post office in Ames, is a 18′ x 6′ oil on canvas mural titled Evolution of Corn, by Lowell Houser, a student of Grant Wood’s who painted the mural in the 1930s. Maize (corn) originated

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