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Walnut Antique Fall Festival
Walnut, IA · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 10–12, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Walnut · Walnut · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A fall antiques weekend in Walnut, known statewide as the Antique City of Iowa for its dozens of dealer shops downtown. Distinct from the town's larger June antique show, the October event pairs shopping with community food and activities.
The history within reach
- Templeton Rye34 mi
During Prohibition this Iowa farm town of a few hundred ran a bootleg rye operation of genuine scale, 'Templeton rye' was the good stuff in Midwest speakeasies, and Al Capone's outfit was a customer.
Omaha took the tournament in its third year when nobody else wanted it, and has hosted it every year since, the longest such run of any championship at one city in American sport..
- Winter Quarters40 mi
Some 2,500 Latter-day Saints wintered in dugouts and log huts on the Missouri after leaving Nauvoo, and around 400 died of scurvy, malaria and exposure.
Lincoln fixed the eastern end of the transcontinental railroad at Council Bluffs, and Union Pacific built west from the Omaha bank.
- The Old Market40 mi
A produce warehouse district of brick and cobblestone that was due for clearance until one family bought most of it and leased to artists and restaurants.