Galena treasures its tour tradition

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: September 21, 1997| Author: DENNIS MCCANN | Copyright information

Home tours have a history here as rich as the ore that made the architecture so splendid in the first place.

A story goes that in the 1800s, a group of Iowans proposed a most outlandish home tour, an idea so grandiose it must have been thought up over strong drink late at night. They wanted to buy the Galena home where Ulysses S. Grant had resided briefly before the Civil War, put it on to a huge boat, float it down the Mississippi River and take it on tour up the Atlantic seaboard ...

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