Articles Tagged: Time Machine

In 1870, a new icehouse went up on the east bank of the Cedar River between Washington (Second) and Commercial …

Frank Hormel was Cedar Rapids mayor for one year in the 1880s and built a beautiful brick home at 1420 …

Immigration struggles are nothing new. Take the case of Fred Abdnour, born in Syria in 1923, and 8 years old …

Philip and Hellen ‘Ella’ Wilder Wieting, a pair of Worcester, N.Y., newlyweds, moved to Toledo, the county seat of Tama …

The property at 419 Second Ave. SE, long known as the Coffits Building, has housed the Hall Bicycle Shop since …

The historic flood of 2008, when the Cedar River crested June 13 at a record 31.12 feet, was the worst …

Cedar Rapids was in a state of emergency March 18, 1929, as the rising Cedar River was flooding a wide …

Weston and Gerdine Ralston moved to Cedar Rapids in 1933 with their sons, James, 13, and Weston, 10, where Weston …

This column started out as a story about an American chestnut tree in West Union, a Fayette County city of …

Memories of the play still rattle around in Tom Hurn’s head. In the summer of 1972, Iowa’s baseball team made …

Clarence L. Miller, who had come to Cedar Rapids from Ohio with his parents in the 1860s, had his own …

For most of my generation growing up in Cedar Rapids in the 1950s and ’60s, the sprawling stone house on …

Arabella Babb Mansfield, an Iowan, became the first woman lawyer in the United States in 1869, but she never practiced …

Forty-five years ago this week, the worst April blizzard in Iowa history paralyzed the state. On Sunday, April 8, 1973, …

Easter, a Christian holiday celebrated around the world, and April Fools’ Day, an event observed by pranksters everywhere, rarely fall …