History

Orchestra has had five directors in past 100 years

The Cedar Rapids stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching the Rescuing Our Roots project to photograph and document 20,000 Iowa headstones starting Sept. 10 and finishing Memorial Day 2023.

Order of Railway Conductors operated downtown for almost a century, from 1878 to 1968

Longtime educator said hearing a Wagner concert on the radio set his life’s course

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway.

TIME MACHINE: Kansan preached Prohibition to thousands

The Gazette hired Cyrus Fosmire to produce cartoons and drawings for publication with Gazette stories. His first day on the job, and the first day his name was included in the masthead as “Illustrator,” was Jan. 1, 1896, when he was 20 years old.

Dennis Chaffee’s two toddlers were staying with him when he was shot and killed in his home in July 1983.