Ambrose A. Call State Park
{{Short description|State park in Iowa, U.S.}}
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| label = Ambrose A. Call State Park
| location = Kossuth County, Iowa, United States
| nearest_city = Algona, Iowa
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| area = {{convert|138|acre|abbr=on}}
| elevation = {{convert|1224|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| established = 1925
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| administrator = Iowa Department of Natural Resources
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Ambrose A. Call State Park is a {{convert|138|acre|adj=on}} public recreation area in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States, that commemorates the first European settler in Kossuth County. The state park preserves rugged hills of old-growth forest on the East Fork of the Des Moines River.
History
Ambrose A. Call and his brother Asa staked their claim on the site of the future park on July 9, 1854. The next day Ambrose and traveling companion William Smith started building a log cabin while Asa went back to retrieve his family and more supplies. In 1925, Ambrose's daughter donated the site to the state of Iowa for a public park. While the original cabin is gone, a similar structure was moved from a nearby homestead and placed approximately where Ambrose's cabin stood. The park's log cabin-style lodge built in 1928 by the Works Progress Administration.
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External links
- [https://www.iowadnr.gov/places-go/state-parks/all-parks/ambrose-call-state-park Ambrose A. Call State Park] Iowa Department of Natural Resources
- [https://www.iowadnr.gov/media/1245/download?inline Ambrose A. Call State Park Map] Iowa Department of Natural Resources
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Category:Protected areas established in 1925
Category:Protected areas of Kossuth County, Iowa