In 1952, prominent Cedar Rapids businessman Cecil Reed drove to Denver with his wife, Evelyn, and their four children, ranging …
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Gladys Arne and her friend Emma Raphael, both in their early 20s, set out from a Davenport dock to begin …
A version of the well-known Iwo Jima flag-raising sculpture – officially known as the Marine Corps War Memorial – stands …
The first Black police officer in Cedar Rapids grew up in Canada. Obediah ‘Obe” Claire was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., …
4-H might be the most traditional, yet forward-thinking, organization in Linn County. For nearly 100 years, the organization has been …
Before Black Lives Matter, there was the summer of 1963 and the huge March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. …
A small community called Hiawatha Junction formed outside the Cedar Rapids city limits in the 1940s. A mile north of …
Charles Treger was born in Iowa City in 1935 and started playing a violin at age 7. He began taking …
Merle H. Collins of Kingfisher, Okla., brought industrial farming to Iowa, using advanced methods of crop rotation and fertilization to …
Lawrence Welk, one of the nation’s foremost band leaders and early TV personalities, brought his ‘champagne music” to Cedar Rapids …
At the turn of the 20th century, a vaccine had been developed for smallpox, a virus that killed millions in …
The Yukon love story of Mary Emily Fellows of Montour and Ely Ebenezer Weare of Cedar Rapids was reported across …
The Gazette’s page 1 headline on Jan. 2, 1917, said: ‘New Year Gift to Cedar Rapids.” The ‘gift” was that …
Getting across the Fourth Street tracks in Cedar Rapids is easier now than it was when there were a half …
It was in 1904 that the St. Wenceslaus Catholic parish, established in 1874 in Cedar Rapids, decided to build a …
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