Mark Twain

Historical marker location:

200South MAin Street, Keokuk, Iowa

( Marker is on South Main Street (U.S. 136) near Second Street.)

Marker installed: 2009

Site of the Clemens Brothers' Print Shop.

Iowa was one of the first states to grant women the right to vote. In 1869, the Iowa state legislature passed a law allowing women to vote in school board elections. This was more than 50 years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote nationwide.