Articles Tagged: Time Machine

CEDAR RAPIDS – Agricultural implement maker Stoddard Manufacturing of Dayton, Ohio, wanted to build a distribution facility on the west …

MUSCATINE — Alexander Clark opened a barbershop after he arrived in Muscatine in 1842. He was 16. Born in Pennsylvania …

CEDAR RAPIDS — A corner lot at Third Avenue and Third Street in downtown Cedar Rapids changed hands from the …

JOHNSON COUNTY – Josef Coufal, a native of Bohemia, arrived in a river bottom area of the Iowa River in …

JOHNSON COUNTY – The stately Johnson County Courthouse will reach its 115th anniversary this year, but it wasn’t the county’s …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Calvin Bard of Benton Harbor, Mich., was a veteran of the motion picture business. He had a …

CEDAR RAPIDS – There is now a parking lot at 225 First St. SE in Cedar Rapids, the first home …

Frank Kouba had lived in Iowa City for about five years when he decided in 1872 to move north to …

Christmas in 1973 in Eastern Iowa was much less twinkly than usual. The reason for that could be traced to …

Robert Lucas had already served two terms as governor of Ohio in 1838 when President Martin Van Buren appointed him …

LOUISA COUNTY – Thirteen deeply tanned, grimy students from Dr. R.J. Ruppe’s University of Iowa archaeology class spent the summer …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Eastern Iowa was home to a pair of brothers in the late 19th century who didn’t seem …

CEDAR RAPIDS – Frank Smid’s new theater opened in 1914 with something few theaters ever had. Two fresco artists from …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The first Cedar Rapids carnival opened Oct. 13, 1897. It was the brainchild of Napoleon F. Franchere. …

CEDAR RAPIDS – In the 1880s, the Big Springs School, a one-room school house, stood about four miles north of …