"WHAT WAS THIS PLACE?"

is probably the one question people ask the most about Smokestack. This historic site  tells the story of a changing Iowa from pre-history to the present.  

• Native American Burial Mound
• Site of the 1834 first execution in Iowa , an event that expanded the U.S. 
• 1850s Swiss-German hotel 
• 1920s dairy processing plant & garage
• 1940s light industrial
• 1970s warehouse
• 2013 Smokestack
• That's the brief story. 

Click through the slides below and go a little deeper.