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Bonaparte Historic Riverfront

Bonaparte, IA

Tiny Bonaparte preserves blocks of nineteenth-century commercial buildings beside the Des Moines River, many dating to the town's milling era. The unusually intact streetscape feels like a near-ghost-town without actually being abandoned.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: villagesofvanburen.com

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