Today we stopped in Adel to stay the night. We discover that we are right at he edge of Madison County, the place written about in the book "The Bridges of Madison County". It's a short drive and has several historic covered bridges. We pick up a map here. We also find that the town of
Winterset, where this Visitor Center is, is the birth place of John Wayne. Now we have two points of interest to visit.
City Hall in
Winterset, Madison Count, Iowa.
Read the street sign. As always, this town has wonderful old, old buildings which are well preserved.
John Wayne's boyhood home.
The Duke in bronze.
We find this bridge in a beautiful park where there is also a hedge maze. The bridges are all almost identical so we visit just this one. The gate to the maze is locked. It would have been fun to go through it.
None of the bridges have water running under them, and most have been relocated to the area around this little town.
We walk across the bridge and
explore the park area.
Today we stopped in Adel to stay the night. We discover that we are right at he edge of Madison County, the place written about in the book "The Bridges of Madison County". It's a short drive and has several historic covered bridges. We pick up a map here. We also find that the town of Winterset, where this Visitor Center is, is the birth place of John Wayne. Now we have two points of interest to visit.
City Hall in Winterset, Madison Count, Iowa.
Read the street sign. As always, this town has wonderful old, old buildings which are well preserved.
John Wayne's boyhood home.
The Duke in bronze.
None of the bridges have water running under them, and most have been relocated to the area around this little town.
We walk across the bridge and explore the park area.
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