Among the many accomplishments of the former Republican Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, who died July 8 at age 89, was …
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Among the many accomplishments of the former Republican Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, who died July 8 at age 89, was …
In 1870, a new icehouse went up on the east bank of the Cedar River between Washington (Second) and Commercial …
Frank Hormel was Cedar Rapids mayor for one year in the 1880s and built a beautiful brick home at 1420 …
Immigration struggles are nothing new. Take the case of Fred Abdnour, born in Syria in 1923, and 8 years old …
Philip and Hellen ‘Ella’ Wilder Wieting, a pair of Worcester, N.Y., newlyweds, moved to Toledo, the county seat of Tama …
The property at 419 Second Ave. SE, long known as the Coffits Building, has housed the Hall Bicycle Shop since …
The historic flood of 2008, when the Cedar River crested June 13 at a record 31.12 feet, was the worst …
Cedar Rapids was in a state of emergency March 18, 1929, as the rising Cedar River was flooding a wide …
Weston and Gerdine Ralston moved to Cedar Rapids in 1933 with their sons, James, 13, and Weston, 10, where Weston …
This column started out as a story about an American chestnut tree in West Union, a Fayette County city of …
Memories of the play still rattle around in Tom Hurn’s head. In the summer of 1972, Iowa’s baseball team made …
Clarence L. Miller, who had come to Cedar Rapids from Ohio with his parents in the 1860s, had his own …
For most of my generation growing up in Cedar Rapids in the 1950s and ’60s, the sprawling stone house on …
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