Ambrose A. Call State Park
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| Ambrose A. Call State Park | |
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  Ambrose A. Call State Park Location in Iowa  Ambrose A. Call State Park Ambrose A. Call State Park (the United States) | |
| Location | Kossuth County, Iowa, United States |
| Nearest city | Algona, Iowa |
| Coordinates | 43°3′4″N 94°15′0″W / 43.05111°N 94.25000°W |
| Area | 138 acres (56 ha) |
| Elevation | 1,224 ft (373 m) |
| Established | 1925 |
| Administered by | Iowa Department of Natural Resources |
| Website | Official website  |
Ambrose A. Call State Park is a 138-acre (56 ha) public recreation area in Kossuth County, Iowa, United States, that commemorates the first European settler in Kossuth County. The state park preserves rugged hills of old-growth forest on the East Fork of the Des Moines River.
Ambrose A. Call and his brother Asa staked their claim on the site of the future park on July 9, 1854. The next day Ambrose and traveling companion William Smith started building a log cabin while Asa went back to retrieve his family and more supplies. In 1925, Ambrose's daughter donated the site to the state of Iowa for a public park. While the original cabin is gone, a similar structure was moved from a nearby homestead and placed approximately where Ambrose's cabin stood.[1] The park's log cabin-style lodge built in 1928 by the Works Progress Administration.[2]
