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Articles Tagged: The History Center
By Jessica and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Jan. 24, 2023 5:00 am16d ago
Iowa BIG students create virtual tours
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Dec. 20, 2022 5:00 am50d ago
HISTORY HAPPENINGS: Born in 1907, she grew up in Cedar Rapids, where her father managed Quaker Oats.
By Jessica and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Dec. 20, 2022 5:00 am50d ago
Woman and Home was printed from 1888 to 1947 in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.
By Jessica Cline and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Nov. 22, 2022 5:00 am78d ago
Gazette’s first female reporter in 1913 hid behind judge’s desk to cover rough trials
By Jessica and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Oct. 25, 2022 5:00 am108d ago
2 Cedar Rapids women took stands for policy changes
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Oct. 25, 2022 5:00 am108d ago
1907 flight so excited onlookers that phone lines jammed and the switchboard’s main fuses blew out.
By Jessica and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Sep. 20, 2022 5:00 am141d ago
They stopped in neighborhoods from 1952 to 1983
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Sep. 20, 2022 5:00 am141d ago
Stories set in Oak Hill and Oak Shade cemeteries
History Sep. 9, 2022 9:37 am149d ago
The Cedar Rapids stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is launching the Rescuing Our Roots project to photograph and document 20,000 Iowa headstones starting Sept. 10 and finishing Memorial Day 2023.
By Jessica and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Aug. 25, 2022 4:02 pm163d ago
Longtime educator said hearing a Wagner concert on the radio set his life’s course
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Aug. 23, 2022 6:00 am170d ago
Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway.
By Jessica Cline and Rob Cline, - The History Center
History Apr. 19, 2022 6:00 am295d ago
History Happenings: Father Kallistratos Glavas was aboard a sinking ship in the Atlantic in 1915 and gained widespread acclain for calming and praying with panicked passengers as they awaited rescue.
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Apr. 19, 2022 2:08 pm291d ago
Piece of History: J.R. Morin Co. was a successful business until three fires — thought to be arson — destroyed its operations in Mechanicsville and Norway, Iowa.
By Tara Templeman, - The History Center
History Feb. 22, 2022 6:00 am355d ago
PIECE OF HISTORY: The minister of St. George Syrian Orthodox Church in Cedar Rapids and his family were on their way to a Syrian picnic in Mason City on Sept. 17, 1933, when a two-car crash killed three members of the Kacere family and the three Waterloo men in the other car.