Scientists from Iowa State College in Ames appeared before the Cedar Rapids City Council in June 1955 with a dire …
History Dec. 9, 2017 11:58 am2931d ago
Scientists from Iowa State College in Ames appeared before the Cedar Rapids City Council in June 1955 with a dire …
History Dec. 2, 2017 11:00 am2938d ago
Famed illustrator Norman Rockwell visited Cedar Rapids in June 1944, looking for inspiration on how he could portray Americans voting. …
History Nov. 18, 2017 11:27 am2952d ago
Iowa City industrialist Chalmer D. Close built a showplace home on the corner of Gilbert and Bowery streets in 1874. …
History Nov. 11, 2017 10:47 am2959d ago
Six veterans from Iowa’s Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry, were still alive and able to attend the 50th anniversary of …
History Nov. 4, 2017 11:00 am2966d ago
On the eve of city elections, let’s look back at how Cedar Rapids has been governed in the past century-and-a-half. …
History Oct. 21, 2017 9:36 am2980d ago
‘Hundreds of Cedar Rapids Elks Club members were left to forage for their lunch and noontime nap in new pastures …
History Oct. 14, 2017 8:00 am2987d ago
What was once an open field – out beyond Cedar Rapids’ first drive-in theater on the outskirts of southwest Cedar …
History Oct. 7, 2017 9:26 pm2993d ago
Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett were an institution in Cedar Rapids, where they taught dance to thousands of students for …
History Oct. 7, 2017 9:20 pm2993d ago
With white supremacist rallies in the news and the recent picture of five teens in Creston wearing white hoods in …
History Sep. 17, 2017 7:58 pm3013d ago
George A. Ohler manufactured furniture – and caskets – at a factory at Washington and Benton streets on the east …
History Sep. 10, 2017 5:19 pm3020d ago
The Oneota Indians were the ancestors of the Ioway, Oto, Winnebago and Missouri tribes in Iowa. Little is known of …
News Sep. 5, 2017 9:15 am3026d ago
In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in …
History Aug. 27, 2017 5:50 pm3034d ago
Rosie and Jim Brislawn opened a roller skating rink in Prairieburg in the early 1950s. It was built on the …
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