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History at High Noon: Sioux City’s Corn Palaces

  • Sioux City Public Museum 607 4th Street Sioux City, IA, 51101 United States (map)

Presenter Haley Aguirre, Archival Records Clerk, looks back at the remarkable structures that promoted Sioux City across the country. From 1887 to 1891, Sioux Cityans celebrated the autumn harvest with a festival featuring the construction of a large, ornate temporary structure in downtown called a Corn Palace covered in corn and other grains.

 

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