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This Iowa boulder, bearing a bronze tablet, marks the spot near Broadway and Union street where Father De Smet established his first mission in the upper Missouri river valley.

This is a monument to a man who gained fame as peacemaker among the Indians more than a century ago in Council Bluffs. The stone marks the site of an Army blockhouse he used as a mission.

Answer: The memorial honors the Jesuit missionary,…

The Old And The New . . . is displayed by Myron Allerton, past president of the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County. The original DeSmet plaque was dedicated in 1934 but was lost during the 1940s. Suddenly last week, the old plaque reappeared…

Earl Williams . . . director of Walnut Hill Cemetery, looks at one of two boulders in the cemetery for safekeeping. They are historical monuments looking for a home.