Pope John Paul II visited Iowa 40 years ago – on Oct. 4, 1979 – in what remains the largest …
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The story of Walter and Mahala Dutton Douglas and their voyage aboard the ill-fated Titanic is well-documented. Walter, who was …
Support from Marion residents was key to bringing the first train to Marion from Anamosa in the fall of 1864, …
The Gazette’s archives don’t go back far enough to date the actual beginning of Cedar Rapids’ Union Park on Prairie …
For the first quarter century of the Iowa State Fair’s history, it graced nine Eastern Iowa cities before it found …
A west-side Cedar Rapids park and the historic home across the street from it are part of the Chandler …
The All-Iowa Fair — in all its iterations — was a staple of Gazette news pages for more than …
Smack-dab in the middle of Oak Hill Cemetery in southeast Cedar Rapids is the headstone for Byron H. McKeeby, a …
NASA’s moon landing photo archives for the Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969.
It was a big deal on May 1, 1957, when Iowa native and Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller came …
KCRG-TV aired its first broadcast Oct. 15, 1953, as KCRI, from a studio in the Miller Building at First Avenue …
In 1927, Cedar Rapids had 22 parks covering 322 acres. The largest were Ellis and Bever, followed by Daniels, Riverside, …
In 1950, Boy Scouts Commissioner Jack Whitaker from Kansas City, Mo., came up with the idea of creating miniature Statues …
OXFORD – A party more than 150 years in the making is coming to Oxford this week. On July 4-6, …
One of the oldest houses in Iowa is in Fayette in northeast Iowa, where it was home to the Kent …
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