Less than 800 automobiles were registered in Iowa in 1905. Ten years later, that number was more than 147,000. With …
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Less than 800 automobiles were registered in Iowa in 1905. Ten years later, that number was more than 147,000. With …
William W. Walker arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1855 from New York City. He and his wife, Mary Hitchcock Walker, …
In 1917, a Valentine’s Day ball was scheduled on Feb. 14 as the last big social event before the Lenten …
Grace Episcopal Church, commonly called Grace Church, was organized in 1850. The church’s first vestry officers were William Greene, N.B. …
Henry Carter, a sawmill operator, was one of the earliest settlers in the northeast Iowa town of Hopkinton in Delaware …
Among The Gazette’s archives are hundreds of negatives from the 1940s-60s, some marked with a minimal amount of information, but …
References to a Stony Point schoolhouse stretch back to 1871 in The Gazette’s archives, when ‘Prof. Kephart,” a Republican candidate …
As the Cedar Rapids Public Library celebrates its 120th year, I could think of no other person who touched more …
Although efforts to acquire land for a new westside park had been going on for more than a decade, Parks …
Jim McGuire had 11 years of experience wearing a Santa suit when he was interviewed by The Gazette in 1962. …
When the residents of Clayton County’s Garnavillo township decided they wanted a church of their own, they conferred with their …
No one knew why the Civil War cannon ended up in a railroad auction of unclaimed freight at Prairie du …
The little red brick building on Robinson Street, later Second Street, in Coralville went through a number of incarnations before …
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