Articles Tagged: The History Center

Professional baseball in Cedar Rapids has been played since 1890.

While Percy Heavythinker never walked the halls of McKinley, his legend did.

Theodore Stark & Co. built the Churchill Drug Co. Building in Cedar Rapids in 1925, and 100 years later, both the building and the general contractor are still standing.

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.

The free admission days supported by the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation.

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 piece was written by two Cedar Rapidians for a contest during World War I.

Across the nation, newspapers were shifting to morning delivery to stay competitive.

The Cedar Rapids-based Sinclair & Co. meatpacking plant was a beacon of industry in Iowa, and now a stone from the original building will be included in the Alliant Energy LightLine bridge project to commemorate its history.

When the game got underway, no one among the 2,670 fans in attendance could have imagined what was going to happen before halftime.

Modeled after the famed Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming, Cedar Rapids aimed to rival the original.

The ad trumpets the 10th anniversary of Garnet’s Sandwich Shop, which was located at 715 Second Ave. SE, in what is now Midtown Station.

Mancil “Manny” Root is reported as being anywhere between 9 and 11 at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army.