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Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Aug. 15, 2020 10:00 am1847d ago
The Bucknell family moved from Spencer to Cedar Rapids in 1927 when the father, Richard E. Bucknell, became manager of …
History Aug. 5, 2020 11:53 pm1857d ago
During the Great Depression, the Civil Works Administration – a New Deal program – surveyed the nation’s forest and wasteland. …
History Jul. 28, 2020 9:30 am1865d ago
Shoeless Joe Jackson’s nickname came from his time playing baseball for Greenville in the Carolina Association. He had a sore …
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
Community Jul. 23, 2020 4:47 pm1870d ago
Any greatest hits playlist celebrating notable musicians and moments in Linn County music history is likely to invite criticism, debate …
By Tara Templeman, The History Center
History Jul. 22, 2020 10:26 am1871d ago
In 1952, prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Cecil Reed drove to Denver with his wife, Evelyn, and their four children, ranging …
History Jul. 14, 2020 2:47 pm1879d ago
Gladys Arne and her friend Emma Raphael, both in their early 20s, set out from a Davenport dock to begin …
History Jul. 7, 2020 11:00 am1886d ago
A version of the well-known Iwo Jima flag-raising sculpture – officially known as the Marine Corps War Memorial – stands …
History Jun. 30, 2020 9:30 am1893d ago
The first Black police officer in Cedar Rapids grew up in Canada. Obediah ‘Obe” Claire was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., …
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
Community Jun. 23, 2020 11:01 pm1900d ago
4-H might be the most traditional, yet forward-thinking, organization in Linn County. For nearly 100 years, the organization has been …
History Jun. 16, 2020 10:00 am1907d ago
Before Black Lives Matter, there was the summer of 1963 and the huge March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. …
Community Jun. 16, 2020 6:56 pm1907d ago
A small community called Hiawatha Junction formed outside the Cedar Rapids city limits in the 1940s. A mile north of …
History Jun. 4, 2020 12:14 am1920d ago
Charles Treger was born in Iowa City in 1935 and started playing a violin at age 7. He began taking …
History May. 20, 2020 11:00 am1934d ago
Merle H. Collins of Kingfisher, Okla., brought industrial farming to Iowa, using advanced methods of crop rotation and fertilization to …
History May. 14, 2020 11:00 am1940d ago
Lawrence Welk, one of the nation’s foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his ‘champagne music” to Cedar Rapids …