The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, formed in 1918, is marking its 100th year as a promoter of economic and …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Aug. 6, 2018 9:00 am2603d ago
Among the many accomplishments of the former Republican Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, who died July 8 at age 89, was …
History Jul. 23, 2018 9:00 am2617d ago
In 1870, a new icehouse went up on the east bank of the Cedar River between Washington (Second) and Commercial …
History Jul. 16, 2018 9:00 am2624d ago
Frank Hormel was Cedar Rapids mayor for one year in the 1880s and built a beautiful brick home at 1420 …
History Jul. 9, 2018 9:00 am2631d ago
Immigration struggles are nothing new. Take the case of Fred Abdnour, born in Syria in 1923, and 8 years old …
Community Jun. 24, 2018 8:30 am2646d ago
Philip and Hellen ‘Ella’ Wilder Wieting, a pair of Worcester, N.Y., newlyweds, moved to Toledo, the county seat of Tama …
News Jun. 16, 2018 12:00 pm2653d ago
The property at 419 Second Ave. SE, long known as the Coffits Building, has housed the Hall Bicycle Shop since …
News Jun. 12, 2018 11:39 am2658d ago
The historic flood of 2008, when the Cedar River crested June 13 at a record 31.12 feet, was the worst …
History Jun. 3, 2018 8:30 am2667d ago
Cedar Rapids was in a state of emergency March 18, 1929, as the rising Cedar River was flooding a wide …
History May. 20, 2018 8:00 am2681d ago
Weston and Gerdine Ralston moved to Cedar Rapids in 1933 with their sons, James, 13, and Weston, 10, where Weston …
History May. 13, 2018 7:15 am2688d ago
This column started out as a story about an American chestnut tree in West Union, a Fayette County city of …
By Mark Dukes, correspondent
Iowa Hawkeyes Sports May. 6, 2018 12:55 pm2694d ago
Memories of the play still rattle around in Tom Hurn’s head. In the summer of 1972, Iowa’s baseball team made …
Community Apr. 29, 2018 9:15 am2702d ago
Clarence L. Miller, who had come to Cedar Rapids from Ohio with his parents in the 1860s, had his own …
Community Apr. 23, 2018 11:10 am2708d ago
For most of my generation growing up in Cedar Rapids in the 1950s and ’60s, the sprawling stone house on …
History Apr. 16, 2018 7:00 am2715d ago
Arabella Babb Mansfield, an Iowan, became the first woman lawyer in the United States in 1869, but she never practiced …