Articles Tagged: The History Center

But Pat Mason’s 1950 high school graduation threw her a curve ball

PIECE OF HISTORY: Some fire escapes didn’t work or were missing at the Clifton Hotel

History Center programs convene at restaurants, serving up history of the area with the food.

One gunshot reported, but no one hurt

Iowa BIG students create virtual tours

HISTORY HAPPENINGS: Born in 1907, she grew up in Cedar Rapids, where her father managed Quaker Oats.

Woman and Home was printed from 1888 to 1947 in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.

Gazette’s first female reporter in 1913 hid behind judge’s desk to cover rough trials

2 Cedar Rapids women took stands for policy changes

1907 flight so excited onlookers that phone lines jammed and the switchboard’s main fuses blew out.

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.