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Grinnell, city, Poweshiek county, east-central Iowa, U.S., about 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Des Moines. It was founded by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, a Congregational clergyman, abolitionist, congressman, and railway promoter from Vermont, to whom Horace Greeley, the American journalist, made his famous statement, “Go West, young man, go West, and grow up with the country!” Grinnell’s home served as a station on the Underground Railroad, an escape route for runaway slaves. Grinnell College originated...

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