Charles E. Fawcett – who would become a successful Cedar Rapids businessmen – moved to the city from Benton County …
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Charles E. Fawcett – who would become a successful Cedar Rapids businessmen – moved to the city from Benton County …
Images of the violent Jan. 6 incursion of the U.S. Capitol, in which five people died, evoked recollections of previous …
Dr. Emma Jewel Neal knew, ‘from the time I knew anything,” that she was going to be a doctor. ‘My …
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a 729-foot freighter plying the Great Lakes for 17 years before it sank Nov. 10, …
Alice Carey Inskeep, who would have a deep and lasting impact on music education in Cedar Rapids, was born in …
Linn County’s first courthouse was built in Marion in 1842 and replaced with another courthouse in Marion in 1855. As …
Ever heard of Alexander Lippisch? He was an inventor and aeronautical engineer and might be one of the most significant …
The Killian Co. department store was a fixture in downtown Cedar Rapids from the time it opened in 1911 until …
Christmas trees were first sold commercially in the United States in the 1850s. The trees were chopped down in forests …
Marion cabdriver Mary Snyder grew up in Cedar Rapids and loved to tell about her kindergarten days at Jackson Elementary …
By the 1890s, advances in technology had made bicycles safer, lighter and faster. Cedar Rapids residents saw the proof in …
Of all the piano-playing couples throughout the history of pianos and couples, perhaps the best couple to ever play together …
Iowa’s first territorial Thanksgiving is generally believed to have been proclaimed by Gov. Robert Lucas, who served from 1838 to …
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