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Postcard depicting First Congregational Church.

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Rev. George Rice, who came to Council Bluffs (then Kanesville) in 1851, and William Simpson, a Methodist missionary, who was succeeded by Rev. Moses F. Shinn, owned jointly the first non-Mormon church and school building.
It was a hewn log house at…

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The First Congregational Church . . . at 611 First Ave., since 1891. However, the present edifice had four predecessors.

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The County's First Flag...was presented Monday to the Board of Supervisors by Bicentennial Commission Director Dorothy Buckingham and Art Rogers, vice president of the Historical Society of Pottawattamie County.

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First emergency unit in front of #2 station, 27th & Broadway

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The West End Office . . . for First Federal Savings and Loan of Council Bluffs at 32nd and W. Broadway was completed in October.

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White Georgian Marble . . . covers the vaulted columns of the new $1.5 million plus First Federal Savings and Loan Association building that opens this weekend. Recessed lighting from the top accents gold-stainless steel fins which offset full-length…

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New First Federal Building . . . is a beehive of activity as workmen put finishing touches to $300,000 structure at Main St. and Broadway. Glass, brick . . . give the building a distinctive ultra modern appearance.

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AFS Student . . . Terje Froystein, right, and host John Martin pause to pet the Martin's setter, Nick.

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This model of the first building regularly to be built as a high school for Council Bluffs was constructed by the art classes of Abraham Lincoln high school. The building, located on top of the hill where the Abraham Lincoln athletic field now is…

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Chevra B'Nai Yisroel Synagogue . . . was destroyed by fire March 5, 1930. Cornerstone for this building at 618 Mynster St. was laid June 19, 1904.

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B'nai Israel Synagogue...was first occupied in January of 1931. It was built on the same site of the Chevra B'nai Yisroel Synagogue.

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First National Bank, northwest corner of Main and Broadway.

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Photograph of the First National Bank building on the Southwest corner of Main and Broadway.

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First National Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa
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