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Herbert Hoover National Historic SiteA small white cottage amid autumn foliage.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Virtual Tour
Rows of antique wood-topped, wrought-iron pupils' desks on a wooden floor inside a historic classroom.
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Pupils' desks are part of the historic furnishings at the Schoolhouse, one of the historic buildings in the park.

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site's landscape, buildings, and exhibits, symbolize American ideals of religion, education, hard work, community, and entrepreneurship as Herbert Hoover saw them and lived them. Take a virtual tour to learn more about the park. The virtual tour includes the following stops:

  2. Birthplace Cottage
  3. Downey Street
  4. West Branch Commercial District
  5. Blacksmith Shop
  6. Schoolhouse
  7. Hoover Creek
  8. Friends Meetinghouse
  9. Statue of Isis
  10. House of the Maples
  11. Presidential Library and Museum
  12. Tallgrass Pairie
  13. Issac Miles Farmstead
  14. Gravesite

Select any of the stops or begin your virtual tour here.
Yellow coneflowers in the lush green prairie grass.  

Did You Know?
General Land Office surveyors who first came to Iowa commented that the territory was fit only for waterfowl. Eighty-five percent of Iowa used to be soggy tallgrass prairie.
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Last Updated: July 10, 2008 at 14:11 EST