Articles Tagged: Time Machine

Grace Episcopal Church, commonly called Grace Church, was organized in 1850. The church’s first vestry officers were William Greene, N.B. …

Henry Carter, a sawmill operator, was one of the earliest settlers in the northeast Iowa town of Hopkinton in Delaware …

Among The Gazette’s archives are hundreds of negatives from the 1940s-60s, some marked with a minimal amount of information, but …

References to a Stony Point schoolhouse stretch back to 1871 in The Gazette’s archives, when ‘Prof. Kephart,” a Republican candidate …

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 …