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Fort Dodge

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Fort Dodge, city (1990 pop. 25,894), seat of Webster co., central Iowa, on the Des Moines River; settled c.1846; inc. 1869. Fort Clarke was built on the site in 1850 and renamed Fort Dodge the following year. In a mining and agricultural area, Fort Dodge is a rail and distribution center. Industries in the city pack meat and make farm equipment and fertilizers. Gypsum mills are in Fort Dodge, and the outlying region has extensive gypsum beds. The city has the Fort Dodge Historical Museum.


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Senator Tom Harkin has announced that Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge will receive $475,750 in funding for the Fuel Quality Testing Laboratory, which provides a testing site for the renewable fuels industry.
Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) enters into an agreement with Pfizer to acquire certain assets of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' Fort Dodge Animal Health business upon the closing of the global Pfizer-Wyeth merger.
Pavolis was born in Fort Dodge, IA daughter of William and Ellen (Crellin) George and is predeceased by a brother Clair and 3 sisters Celia, Lorraine and Delores.
 
 
 
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