Sioux City Iowa - during the summer of 1804. Sergeant Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, died here on August 20, 1804, the only fatality during the two and a half-year expedition.
In 1891, the Sioux City Elevated Railway was opened and became the third steam powered elevated rapid transit system in the world, and later the first electric-powered elevated railway in the world after a conversion in 1892.
On July 19, 1989, United Airlines flight 232 crash landed at Sioux Gateway Airport, killing 111 people.
But on a more personal note, my great great grandfather was said to be the first white settler in Pocahontas county (in Iowa) and was a leader in the community that grew there.