Ansel Briggs was 40 years old when he became the first governor of the new state of Iowa on Dec. …
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The unmarried members of the Coe College faculty organized an informal club in fall of 1920. They planned to have …
As in every pioneer community across the country, a burial ground was one of the first areas set aside in …
This story starts with William Coblenz, a government worker in Washington, D.C., who visited the National Archives during a lunch …
The Fort Atkinson State Preserve in Winneshiek County contains the remnants of a frontier Army post established in northeast Iowa …
Mildred Lenore Weenink, who would become a well-known Iowa artist and arts advocate, was 2 years old in 1891 when …
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, formed in 1918, is marking its 100th year as a promoter of economic and …
Among the many accomplishments of the former Republican Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, who died July 8 at age 89, was …
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 …
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