The stories of Allamakee County, IA
7 narrated audio stories from across Allamakee County — hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore from its towns, landmarks, and back roads.
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Where Bears and Birds Still Hold the Ridge
A sacred landscape of earthworks above the Mississippi River valley.
Effigy Mounds National Monument
When the Mounds Finally Held Their Ground
How Iowa’s sacred mound landscape won federal protection in 1949.
Paint Rock Bluff
What the Bluff Kept After the Paint Faded
A vanished rock image site survives through the travelers who noticed it.
Veterans Memorial Hospital
A Hospital Built to Remember by Serving
Why Waukon chose care itself as a memorial to veterans.
Mount Hosmer Park
The Bluff That Borrowed a Famous Name
A river overlook where scenery and 19th-century fame meet.
Mount Hosmer
Mount Hosmer and the Climb That Stuck
A bluff, a dare, and the woman whose name stayed on the hill.
Allamakee County Veterans Museum
A County’s Service, Kept in Uniform Cloth and Paper
In Waukon, military history is told through the people who lived it.
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