First Train Robbery in The West

Historical marker location:

Adair, Iowa

( Marker is on County Road G30, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1964

Jesse James Robberies.

The first American casualty of World War I was a sailor from Iowa named Merle Hay. He was killed when the German submarine U-58 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones on December 6, 1917.