Thinking leaders more than 150 years ago decision madehe by forward thinking leaders more than 150 years ago is still reverberating today. If it had not been built, its possible the town would have gone away. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring highlights from cspans cities tour where we go on the road to learn more about American History. Learn more about these cities at estour. Pan. Org citi youre watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. This years iowa state fair in des moines takes place august 15 through august 23 and will be visited by many of the republican and Democratic Candidates seeking their partys president ial nomination. In a few minutes, we look back to the 2008 president ial race by mittidates visits romney, Hillary Clinton, mike huckabee, and others. Learn about its stop on the road to the white house. The first iowa state fair was held in fairfield, iowa in 1854, some 160 years ago now. As the fairer progressed from fa
Day. Al your water goes out, theres is no water in your toilet, water in your no water in your bathtub. Hear about the evens that led up to this and how the people of des moines dealt with the situation. Will visit the Education Center and hear how centers werender broken at this army base. There are hundreds of army jobs that women can perform effectively as men. Some of these jobs better than the men. Downtown, the golden dome sits atop the capitol to miss. That is hard theegin with the tour of center. Ayive the first Capitol Building for the state of iowa would be in iowa city. The state became a state in 1846. The capital was in iowa city. We moved to des moines in 1857. We chose it because of the central location. When we came here in 1857, the building was not built yet. We use the building across the street called the old brick capital. We used it as the City Government well building this building. The capitol was built from 18711886. It was dedicated in 1874 and has been in use