References to a Stony Point schoolhouse stretch back to 1871 in The Gazette’s archives, when ‘Prof. Kephart,” a Republican candidate …
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As the Cedar Rapids Public Library celebrates its 120th year, I could think of no other person who touched more …
Although efforts to acquire land for a new westside park had been going on for more than a decade, Parks …
Jim McGuire had 11 years of experience wearing a Santa suit when he was interviewed by The Gazette in 1962. …
When the residents of Clayton County’s Garnavillo township decided they wanted a church of their own, they conferred with their …
No one knew why the Civil War cannon ended up in a railroad auction of unclaimed freight at Prairie du …
The little red brick building on Robinson Street, later Second Street, in Coralville went through a number of incarnations before …
Grant Wood did not consider any of his works to be satire – except one. When he painted ‘Daughters of …
Some historians say that William Abbe was the first settler in Linn County in 1837. It is certain he was …
Robert Manatt, a Pennsylvania farmer, brought his family west to Poweshiek County in 1846, just as Iowa was becoming a …
Paul Shaw started working in Cedar Rapids as an automobile mechanic in 1919 at W.H. Morse & Co., a dealer …
Twin clubs began springing up in Eastern Iowa in the 1950s and ’60s. The first to organize was the Hawkeye …
McGregor residents were the first to see the Ringling Brothers’ passion for circus showmanship. It was in Walton Hollow (now …
For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the late 1800s, …
Anyone standing on the bluff at Eagle Point near Dubuque in the late 19th century saw a wealth of riverboat …
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