Iowa is live on Travelog with one city, West Branch, home to Herbert Hoover National Historic Site. No entrance fee is required for the site itself, including the Birthplace Cottage, Blacksmith Shop, Schoolhouse, and Gravesite, but the separate Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum charges $10 for adults. Hoover, born in the 280-square-foot cottage in 1874, was the first US president born west of the Mississippi River.
West Branch pairs a genuinely free historic site with a separately ticketed presidential library next door, worth understanding the distinction before visiting, covered in full below.
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