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What was once an open field – out beyond Cedar Rapids’ first drive-in theater on the outskirts of southwest Cedar …
Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett were an institution in Cedar Rapids, where they taught dance to thousands of students for …
With white supremacist rallies in the news and the recent picture of five teens in Creston wearing white hoods in …
George A. Ohler manufactured furniture – and caskets – at a factory at Washington and Benton streets on the east …
The Oneota Indians were the ancestors of the Ioway, Oto, Winnebago and Missouri tribes in Iowa. Little is known of …
In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in …
Rosie and Jim Brislawn opened a roller skating rink in Prairieburg in the early 1950s. It was built on the …
Total solar eclipses happen almost every year, but the shadows often fall on the ocean or less populated areas of …
Jane Boyd, a ‘modern saint” who left her mark on Cedar Rapids and on the lives of countless women and …
Tomas G. Masaryk – the first president of Czechoslovakia – and his family had a long, personal connection to Cedar …
A widely traveled business man in 1887 described Cedar Rapids this way: ‘There is a freshness, a vivacity, a newness …
Stories swirl around the Black Angel in Iowa City’s Oakland Cemetery, most of them based more in fantasy than fact. …
Margaret Lucile Granger was the middle child in the home of Earl and Dora Granger of Marion. Her father indulged …
John J. Mead was distribution superintendent for the Cedar Rapids Gas Light Co. in 1913 when he decided to build …
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