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- A Scenic Drive Festival is held at Lacey-Keosauqua State Park
the second weekend of October. The festival features buckskinners, DNR information booths and a portable woodmizer
sawmill. The Annual 5K Run/Walk is held at the lodge on Sunday morning sponsored by the Friends of Lacey. The
nearby town of Keosauqua has a parade, carnival and other related events.
- In 1984, the first annual Lewis and Clark Festival was held in June at
Lewis and Clark State Park near Onawa, IA. The park was the site of an 1804 Lewis and
Clark encampment. The June festival features movies about the 1804 expedition, buckskinners in frontier dress,
bluegrass music and events such as a fishing contest and "fun run". A major attraction is the full-sized
replica of Lewis and Clark's keelboat Discovery constructed by local volunteers and park staff.
- The annual Fort Atkinson "rendezvous" has been held during the last full weekend of
September at the Fort Atkinson State Preserve in northeast Iowa since 1977. The event
depicts life on the 1840's Iowa frontier with buckskinners, U.S. Army dragoons, black powder shoots, craftspeople,
contests, movies and demonstrations.
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