Patterson Winterset

Discover Madison County, Iowa - Welcome to the birthplace of John Wayne and home of the historic covered bridges popularized by Robert James Waller's novel The Bridges of Madison County and the feature film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood.

Discover Madison County, Iowa - Welcome to the birthplace of John Wayne and home of the historic covered bridges popularized by Robert James Waller's novel The Bridges of Madison County and the feature film starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood.

The Madison County Historical Society complex includes 14 buildings located on 18 picturesque acres on the south edge of Winterset, Iowa. Our purpose is to promote the acquisition, preservation, and display of artifacts of the social, cultural and natural ...

We carry monuments for Winterset, Perry, Atlantic, Stuart, Indianola and Central Iowa. We also carry urns, headstones, grave markers, benches, plaques and memorials, as well as do cemetery lettering, such as epitaphs, family names and birth dates.