Hawkeye State bestow the name on a white scout who lived and hunted with them. In 1838, 12 years after the book was published, people in the territory of Iowa acquired the nickname, chiefly through the efforts of Judge David Rorer of Burlington and James G. Edwards of Fort Madison. Edwards, editor of the Fort Madison Patriot, moved his newspaper to Burlington in 1843 and renamed it the Burlington Hawkeye. The two men continued their campaign to popularize the name and were rewarded when territorial officials gave it their formal approval. The Hawkeye nickname gained a tangible symbol in 1948 when a
Secondary state highways as branches of Primary State Highway 7 (Washington) Route 10 about a mile north of Kittitas. SSH 7B was removed from the state highway system in 1953. The route is not part of the modern Washington state route system. When it was added to the state highway system in 1951, Secondary State Highway 7C originated at US 10/PSH-7 at the east end of the Vantage Bridge, at a point where the main highway turned north to climb out of the Columbia River Valley. From the banks of the Columbia, SSH 7C headed east to a junction with US 395/PSH 11 west of Othello, remaining roughly parallel to US