The White Pole Road brought its fair share of historical figures through Dexter, from the famous to the infamous.

Those stories and more are available at the Dexter Museum.

Stanley: Dexter has a lot of history.

Highway 6, the transcontinental highway, runs through Dexter.

Lots of traffic until the interstate was built.

From 1915 to like 1932, there were over 400 amusement parks built in the state of Iowa, and Dexfield Park was one of the first ones, and it was built three miles north of town.

The swimming pool was the main attraction.

It was an Olympic-size swimming pool, and it was fed by a natural spring called Marshall Springs.

They had a merry-go-round, a Ferris wheel.

They had a skating rink.

They had a dance hall.

They had arcade games.

They had restaurants.

But on a weekend, they'd get 3,000 or 4,000 people out there.

It's always exciting when you have a president of the United States visit your town.

Harry S. Truman, he was running for re-election, made Dexter one of his stops because of the National Plowing Match that was taking place north of town.

Around 100,000 people, we think, showed up that day to listen to him give a 29-minute speech.

It kind of jump-started his campaign, and he went on to score an amazing upset in the election.

The board is -- what a fantastic artifact.

A fella by the name of John Bunnell, he was tearing down corn cribs and started noticing these boards that had names and numbers and so on.

They reassembled them, and lo and behold, now we've got them hanging on the wall.

We've talked about the Dexfield Park, and when it was abandoned in 1932 and '33, there was a campground out there.

And we had one of the most infamous gangs in the Midwest show up out there.

Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow Gang were there.

We have artifacts from the shootout that happened on July 24, 1933, which was the biggest shootout in Dallas County history, by the way.

There was a posse of probably between 50 and 75 people that went out there at a quarter of six in the morning and confronted the Barrows.

They escaped into the woods and eventually made their way to a farmstead and stole a car there and got away to live another day.

Lots and lots of people are interested in Bonnie and Clyde.

I mean, there's people from all over the United States that come to this museum, and they want to know about the Dexfield Park shootout.

And this is the place to come if you want to learn about that.