While You’re There: Make an overnight trip to Corning and stay at the newly built Corning Hotel, a 33-room boutique hotel (thecorninghotel.com). With the new hotel, Mahr says Corning has really ...

The Iowa National Guard has had a unit based in the town of Corning since 1892. “The first unit that was assigned to Corning…actually met at a hotel in downtown Corning,” Hapgood says, ...