Articles Tagged: The History Center

They stopped in neighborhoods from 1952 to 1983

Stories set in Oak Hill and Oak Shade cemeteries

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.

Longtime educator said hearing a Wagner concert on the radio set his life’s course

Perhaps the person most responsible for selling electricity in its early days to Cedar Rapidians was Louise Hathaway.

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.

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.

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.

The History Center in Cedar Rapids presents Grown-Up Show-n-Tell on Tuesday. Bring an item and memory to share, or sit back and enjoy the stories.

The History Center in Cedar Rapids celebrates return of ‘Rudolph’s Retreat’ from Armstrong’s Department store of yore

Armstrong’s employee Ron King, who helped bring the famous holiday displays to shoppers for 24 years, has rebuilt the last one that graced the store. The exhibit opens this weekend at The History Center.

Cedar Rapids furriers offered cold storage during the summer

An interesting artifact was unearthed and donated to The History Center recently – a diary from 1923 that features 365 entries. It was kept by a 22-year old man.

A nationally touring exhibit at The History Center explores a tumultuous time in American history where “wets” and “drys” fought a battle of the bottle that would change the social fabric of America.

Photos and documentation of people at area gay events before the 1970s are fairly rare, so much of what we know comes from an amalgamation of diaries, oral histories, stories passed down and clues left behind.