Right inside the door of the Marion Heritage Center, you can find Dan Rhodes’ 1939 fresco.
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Right inside the door of the Marion Heritage Center, you can find Dan Rhodes’ 1939 fresco.
In December 1954, The Footlighters opened a production of “Gigi” in Cedar Rapids.
Two hotels were built across from each other on Fourth Street SE in Cedar Rapids in the early 1900s and met a similar fate decades later.
Save CR Heritage had just weeks to raise enough money to purchase the historic Zastera Pharmacy building in northwest Cedar Rapids. The nonprofit closed on the sale earlier this month after a successful fundraising campaign.
The mission of The History Press is to explore and unearth "the story of America, one town or community at a time."
They’ve undergone changes from 1904 to today.
Piranhas in Iowa always have been relatively rare, mostly brought in by tropical fish stores.
Buren Sherman’s house was included in a 1969 directory that also included Benton County’s Tilford Academy and the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School.
Created by the team at Hubbard Ice, each Popsicle weighed about 400 pounds.
Before the Linn County rest areas were even constructed, there were issues with water quality at various existing stops across the state.
The Boegels became well known in Cedar Rapids, partly because of their musicianship.
Forty years ago, on July 15, 1985, at about 2:30 p.m., thick clouds of toxic fumes started to spread over south Cedar Rapids from a fire at the old sewage treatment plant. The event became known as “Toxic Tuesday” because the fire produced heavy black smoke filled with hydrogen chloride gas. More than 5,000 people were evacuated.
William Wilker had a tiny shop at the back of his home where he created wooden chains made of oak, walnut, jack pine, and birdseye maple.
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