Iowa was admitted to the union as the 29th state on Dec. 28, 1846. As a Midwestern state, Iowa forms a bridge between the forests of the east and the grasslands of the high prairie plains to the west. Its gently rolling landscape rises slowly as it extends westward from the Mississippi River, which forms its entire eastern border.
The Missouri River and its tributary, the Big Sioux, form the western border, making Iowa the only U.S. state that has two parallel rivers defining its borders. Iowa is bounded by the states of Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west.
The first Iowa Territory legislature met in Burlington before a territorial capital city was finally selected in Johnson County. In Iowa City, the government seat was established in a grand structure known today as Old Capitol. Built in the early 1840s, Old Capitol served as the last capital of Iowa Territory and the first capitol of the state. Under the 1857 Iowa constitution, the seat of state government was moved to Des Moines, a more central location.
Iowa was almost 75 years old before the state banner was adopted by the Legislature in 1921. With the memory of the Civil War still fresh in their minds, Iowans had not adopted a state banner because they felt a national banner was the only one needed.
The Daughters of theAmerican Revolution or D.A.R of Iowa set up a flag committee and arranged for a banner designing competition in 1917. The best designer was Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt who produced the aptest banner. This became the Iowa Regimental Flag, which was later adopted as the state flag on March 29, 1921, by the General Assembly of Iowa.
The Iowa Flag is made out of three vertical stripes of blue, white and red, orchestrated from left to right. The focal white stripe bears the picture of a bald eagle, with a blue lace dangling from its beak. The strip peruses "Our Liberties We Prize, And Our Rights We Will Maintain", the state motto of Iowa. The state name is scratched in intense red letters, beneath the saying. The imagery of Iowa Flag lies in the banner's exceptionally design. The hues and the picture genuinely portray the standards of the state.
The Missouri River and its tributary, the Big Sioux, form the western border, making Iowa the only U.S. state that has two parallel rivers defining its borders. Iowa is bounded by the states of Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west.
The first Iowa Territory legislature met in Burlington before a territorial capital city was finally selected in Johnson County. In Iowa City, the government seat was established in a grand structure known today as Old Capitol. Built in the early 1840s, Old Capitol served as the last capital of Iowa Territory and the first capitol of the state. Under the 1857 Iowa constitution, the seat of state government was moved to Des Moines, a more central location.
Iowa was almost 75 years old before the state banner was adopted by the Legislature in 1921. With the memory of the Civil War still fresh in their minds, Iowans had not adopted a state banner because they felt a national banner was the only one needed.
The Daughters of theAmerican Revolution or D.A.R of Iowa set up a flag committee and arranged for a banner designing competition in 1917. The best designer was Mrs. Dixie Cornell Gebhardt who produced the aptest banner. This became the Iowa Regimental Flag, which was later adopted as the state flag on March 29, 1921, by the General Assembly of Iowa.
The Iowa Flag is made out of three vertical stripes of blue, white and red, orchestrated from left to right. The focal white stripe bears the picture of a bald eagle, with a blue lace dangling from its beak. The strip peruses "Our Liberties We Prize, And Our Rights We Will Maintain", the state motto of Iowa. The state name is scratched in intense red letters, beneath the saying. The imagery of Iowa Flag lies in the banner's exceptionally design. The hues and the picture genuinely portray the standards of the state.
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