Articles Tagged: Time Machine

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 …

Two University of Iowa professors, both of them medical doctors, mounted an effort in 1957 to learn more about the …

The wading pool at Shawnee Park in northwest Cedar Rapids was filled for the last time in 2000. Its spray …