Fort Dodge, Iowa
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Fort Dodge is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, along the Des Moines River. The population was 24,871 in the 2020 census, a decrease from 25,136 in 2000. Fort Dodge
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819 Third Avenue South, Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the Oak Hill Historic District
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Cardiff Giant
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The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous archaeological hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall, roughly 3,000 pound purported "petrified man", uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers
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…and plaster products at several Fort Dodge manufacturing facilities. Drywall was patented by a Fort Dodge resident, and the gypsum used to create the Cardiff Giant hoax of the late 19th century was mined at Fort Dodge. Currently National Gypsum Company, Georgia Pacific Corporation, Celotex Corporation (now CertainTeed…
The Cardiff Giant being exhumed during October 1869
The Cardiff Giant at the Fenimore Farm & Country Village