city of bridges - river of opportunity. welcome to the Hampton Inn-Ottumwa, IA. The Hampton Inn Ottumwa hotel is located in the City of Bridges, a place where the lovely Des Moines River is the heart of the community! An abundance of game, fishing and the river’s rippling waters enticed Iowa’s most famous chiefs, Wapello and Keokuk, to settle here in the mid 1800’s. What started as a river town...