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Iowa

 

Iowa, the 29th state, was admitted to the Union, 28 December 1846, and was named for a Sioux Indian tribe that originally inhabited the Missouri Territory.

 

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Ammonoosuc (q.v.) was renamed Iowa. 15 May 1869