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November 5, 2023

Mahaska, South Side Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Iowa, Mahaska County, Oskaloosa — Mahaska —

Mahaska for whom Mahaska County was named was a chief of the Ioway Tribe of Indians he lived at peace with the white man and was slain by an Indian in 1834 at the age of fifty years in what is now Cass County Iowa The Ioways a powerful tribe . . . — — Map (db m236011) HM

2 ► Iowa, Mahaska County, Oskaloosa — Woman's Relief Corps War Memorial —

Dedicated to the memory of our Civil War, Spanish American, and World War soldiers, sailors, Marines and aviators — — Map (db m237688) WM

3 ► Iowa, Mahaska County, Oskaloosa — Spanish Torpedo —

This Spanish torpedo was taken out of the harbor of Guatanamo in 1899, by Lieutenant Commander Frank F. Fletcher, U.S. Navy and by him, presented to Oskaloosa, the city of his birth as a souvenir of the Spanish-American War. It is supposed to be of . . . — — Map (db m237689) HM