For decades, the ghost story involving a young Coe College student has resurfaced around Halloween. Helen Roberts died Oct. 19, …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Oct. 8, 2019 11:00 am2230d ago
John H. Taft came to Cedar Rapids in 1899 from Sidney, Ohio, and would build a downtown building that evolved …
Living Oct. 1, 2019 2:25 pm2237d ago
Craft brewers and microbreweries have been trending for the past decade, but small breweries have been around for more than …
History Sep. 17, 2019 10:39 pm2251d ago
Pope John Paul II visited Iowa 40 years ago – on Oct. 4, 1979 – in what remains the largest …
Community Sep. 12, 2019 6:26 pm2256d ago
The story of Walter and Mahala Dutton Douglas and their voyage aboard the ill-fated Titanic is well-documented. Walter, who was …
History Sep. 3, 2019 11:00 am2265d ago
Support from Marion residents was key to bringing the first train to Marion from Anamosa in the fall of 1864, …
History Aug. 28, 2019 9:48 pm2271d ago
The Gazette’s archives don’t go back far enough to date the actual beginning of Cedar Rapids’ Union Park on Prairie …
History Aug. 13, 2019 9:00 am2286d ago
For the first quarter century of the Iowa State Fair’s history, it graced nine Eastern Iowa cities before it found …
History Aug. 6, 2019 5:53 pm2293d ago
A west-side Cedar Rapids park and the historic home across the street from it are part of the Chandler …
History Aug. 1, 2019 8:30 am2298d ago
The All-Iowa Fair — in all its iterations — was a staple of Gazette news pages for more than …
By Joe Coffey, The History Center
History Jul. 26, 2019 6:10 pm2304d ago
Smack-dab in the middle of Oak Hill Cemetery in southeast Cedar Rapids is the headstone for Byron H. McKeeby, a …
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News Jul. 19, 2019 7:45 am2311d ago
NASA’s moon landing photo archives for the Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969.
History Jul. 16, 2019 10:00 am2314d ago
It was a big deal on May 1, 1957, when Iowa native and Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller came …
History Jul. 11, 2019 9:30 am2319d ago
KCRG-TV aired its first broadcast Oct. 15, 1953, as KCRI, from a studio in the Miller Building at First Avenue …
History Jul. 8, 2019 9:00 am2322d ago
In 1927, Cedar Rapids had 22 parks covering 322 acres. The largest were Ellis and Bever, followed by Daniels, Riverside, …

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