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Hite Center

Tags: Craft center, Fred and Dee Hite, Heritage Mural, Hite Center, O.G. Craft Shop

Hite Center

The Hite Center, Council Bluffs IA
August 1989

Tags: Craft center, Fred and Dee Hite, Hite Center, O.G. Craft Shop

Hitchcock House Eyed For Restoration

The Hitchcock House . . . sheltered escaped slaves who were making their way toward freedom on the Underground Railroad. The house at one time had a pivoting wall that led to a room where slaves hid from their pursuers.

Tags: Cass County IA, Hitchcock House, Lewis IA, SW Iowa Planning Council, Underground Railroad

Hitchcock House Eyed For Restoration

Patching A Deteriorating Wall . . . will be a big step toward renovating the Hitchcock House. Discussing the project are, from left, Mayor Bill Worth, the Rev. Melvin Ammon and Michael Audino, director of the Southwest Iowa Planning Council.

Tags: Cass County IA, Hitchcock House, Lewis IA, SW Iowa Planning Council, Underground Railroad

History, nature, recreation enough for everyone at DeSoto Refuge

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Jim Frates . . . manager of DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, demonstrates giant bellows removed from the hull of the steamship Bertrand. Frates said the bellows were used to created extra heat in the boilers of the vessel, which sank more than 100…

Tags: Bertrand steamship, De Soto National Wildlife Refuge, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Jim Frates, Missouri Valley

History of the Recovery and Final Internment of the Remains of Col. W. H. Kinsman and the Erection and Unveiling of the Kinsman Monument at Council Bluffs, Iowa Mary 17, 1902

A book about Colonel William H. Kinsman and the Kinsman Monument at Fairview Cemetery.

Tags: civil war, General Grenville M. Dodge, Kinsman Monument

History of the Community of Treynor Iowa

Book of Treynor history compiled by the Treynor Town & Country Club. 250 pages. Scanned by Treynor Community School District for free online publication with consent from living authors. Printed by the Malvern Leader in Malvern, Iowa.

Tags: history, Treynor