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At the foot of the Des Moines rapids on the Mississippi, Keokuk served as a gateway to the West and North and a manufacturing center for the pioneer frontier. The town was named for a Native American chief and developed as a fur trading center. Manufacturing and agricultural industries are its mainstays now.