McGregor residents were the first to see the Ringling Brothers’ passion for circus showmanship. It was in Walton Hollow (now …
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For centuries, the sandbars in the Cedar River drifted and flowed with the river current. Then, in the late 1800s, …
Anyone standing on the bluff at Eagle Point near Dubuque in the late 19th century saw a wealth of riverboat …
Frank Nesetril was born in 1875 in Johnson County and grew up on a farm near Shueyville. He was one …
In the first half of the 20th century, newsboys would be on city street corners hawking the local newspaper. The …
Joe Louis, the ‘Brown Bomber,’ held the world heavyweight boxing championship for 12 years before losing to Ezzard Charles in …
George Nissen was a Big Ten gymnastics star and captain of the gym team at the University of Iowa in …
The Lewis family was living in Indiana when the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty of 1832 opened Eastern Iowa for settlement. …
James Alan McPherson was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His collection of short stories, …
Iowa City school district Superintendent Iver Opstad faced an unwilling electorate when he proposed a new school for a rapidly …
When it was built in 1909, the landmark T.M. Sinclair Co. smokestack was labeled the ‘Finest Smoke Stack in Iowa” …
Edward R. Murphy was born on August 22, 1909, the only son of Edward B. and Elizabeth Murphy. The elder …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Charles A. Laurance grew up in a very young Cedar Rapids, a fact he chronicled in his …
CEDAR RAPIDS – Architect Frederick G. Brown moved to Cedar Rapids from the West Coast in 1909 when a friend …
Dr. James J. Murphy arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1900 fresh out of college, and was almost immediately involved in …
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