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Long one of Iowas most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the Des Moines River in 1843. The river was both a blessing, providing transportation as well as ice for early meatpacking plants, and a curse, inundating the city with periodic floods until it was tamed in the latter half of the 20th century.
Long one of Iowa s most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the Des Moines River in 1843...
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