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Out and About Iowa - Algona

posted on December 20, 2007 at 10:04 AM

It was first named Call’s Grove, for one of two brothers who founded it. One of their wives later named it Algona. It eventually became the county seat for Kossuth County, which is the largest county geographically in Iowa. As "Out and About” correspondent Dan Kaercher reports, Algona is unique in more than its county’s size.

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