Buffalo Bill Cody Homestead
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The Buffalo Bill Cody Homested is the boyhood home of Buffalo Bill Cody, a government Scout and Wild West Showman. The Homestead is located in the broad valley of the Wapsipinicon River
Valley south of McCausland, Iowa
in rural Scott County
. The farmhouse was built in 1847 by Isaac Cody, Buffalo Bill's father, of native limestone and contains walnut floors and trim.
Isaac and Mary Cody, parents of the legendary, Buffalo Bill, moved their family to the homestead from LeClaire, Iowa, where Buffalo Bill Cody was born and raised.
On January 24, 1974 The Cody Homestead was entered to the National Register of Historic Places.
Wapsipinicon River
The Wapsipinicon River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in northeastern Iowa in the United States. It drains a rural farming region of rolling hills and bluffs north of Waterloo and Cedar Rapids. The initial vowel rhymes with "pop".It rises in Mower County, Minnesota...
Valley south of McCausland, Iowa
McCausland, Iowa
McCausland is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 299 at the 2000 census.-Geography:McCausland is located at ....
in rural Scott County
Scott County, Iowa
-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 165,224 in the county, with a population density of . There were 71,835 housing units, of which 66,765 were occupied.-2000 census:...
. The farmhouse was built in 1847 by Isaac Cody, Buffalo Bill's father, of native limestone and contains walnut floors and trim.
Isaac and Mary Cody, parents of the legendary, Buffalo Bill, moved their family to the homestead from LeClaire, Iowa, where Buffalo Bill Cody was born and raised.
On January 24, 1974 The Cody Homestead was entered to the National Register of Historic Places.