You never know what you will find when you get off the beaten path - a Presidential visit and a shootout 1 mile apart

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I had a few hours of daylight left when I stopped in Stuart, Iowa for the night last June. So I pulled up google maps to see if there was anything interesting around town. You just never know what you are going to find...

Barrow Gang (Bonnie & Clyde) shootout at Dexfield park near Dexter, Iowa

I was staying overnight in Stuart Iowa with some spare time to find something interesting. I pulled up google maps and walla, a roadside plaque marking the spot of a shootout with the Barrow gang in 1933. I decided to drive to the roadside marker and see it for myself. It's an interesting...
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Nation Soil Conservation and Plowing Days 1948 featuring President Harry Truman

About one mile south of the Barrow Gang shootout site is a roadside plaque and plow on display commemorating the 1948 soil conservation and plowing days. Then President Harry Truman attended and according to the story on the plaque, was quite interested in the event. As a farm kid I found this...
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Cool. The Erie Turntable is not too far from me. It is one of the oldest if not the oldest operating turntable in the US and maybe even the world. Might snag a pic when the weather isn't so p00p. @99Saturn this lies at the end of the line.
 
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Cool. The Erie Turntable is not too far from me. It is one of the oldest if not the oldest operating turntable in the US and maybe even the world. Might snag a pic when the weather isn't so p00p. @99Saturn this lies at the end of the line.
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I might have to miss my stop one time and go to the end of the line. :D That's pretty cool, was checking out some pictures online.
 
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I might have to miss my stop one time and go to the end of the line. :D That's pretty cool, was checking out some pictures online.
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Yeah, it is. Do it in late spring though 'cause post Middletown PJ line looks the best then. Just remember to get earplugs for the Otisville tunnel. It sounds like someone blasting some cheap trap music through a 12" sub. Not joking, it really sounds like that when you go through it. I'll take a gander and say that your stop is in between Campbell Hall and Tuxedo.
 
Case in point...
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wwillson said:
I had a few hours of daylight left when I stopped in Stuart, Iowa for the night last June. So I pulled up google maps to see if there was anything interesting around town. You just never know what you are going to find...

Barrow Gang (Bonnie & Clyde) shootout at Dexfield park near Dexter, Iowa

I was staying overnight in Stuart Iowa with some spare time to find something interesting. I pulled up google maps and walla, a roadside plaque marking the spot of a shootout with the Barrow gang in 1933. I decided to drive to the roadside marker and see it for myself. It's an interesting...
rvthe.us rvthe.us

Nation Soil Conservation and Plowing Days 1948 featuring President Harry Truman

About one mile south of the Barrow Gang shootout site is a roadside plaque and plow on display commemorating the 1948 soil conservation and plowing days. Then President Harry Truman attended and according to the story on the plaque, was quite interested in the event. As a farm kid I found this...
rvthe.us rvthe.us
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Just watched Bonnie and Clyde movie (1967) this week. It sort of glamorized them in my opinion. The later movie with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson (The Highwaymen) was a more interesting perspective about the two Texas Rangers that were tracking them.
 
wwillson said:
I had a few hours of daylight left when I stopped in Stuart, Iowa for the night last June. So I pulled up google maps to see if there was anything interesting around town. You just never know what you are going to find...

Barrow Gang (Bonnie & Clyde) shootout at Dexfield park near Dexter, Iowa

I was staying overnight in Stuart Iowa with some spare time to find something interesting. I pulled up google maps and walla, a roadside plaque marking the spot of a shootout with the Barrow gang in 1933. I decided to drive to the roadside marker and see it for myself. It's an interesting...
rvthe.us rvthe.us

Nation Soil Conservation and Plowing Days 1948 featuring President Harry Truman

About one mile south of the Barrow Gang shootout site is a roadside plaque and plow on display commemorating the 1948 soil conservation and plowing days. Then President Harry Truman attended and according to the story on the plaque, was quite interested in the event. As a farm kid I found this...
rvthe.us rvthe.us
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Many years ago maybe 20 or so I went with my aunt to go get transcripts from a couple of college classes that I took in while in Highschool. We took the wrong turn and ended up in a neighborhood with a house that was a restaurant. It is a fantastic burger restaurant where the burgers are the size of dinner plates. Not too long ago the owner retired and sold it to and Indian family , which I found ironic as alot of Indians are vegetarians and definitely don't eat beef.
 
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