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

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

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

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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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Postcard depicting First Congregational Church.

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Photograph of the exterior of the First Congregational Church in Council Bluffs.

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Late in the fall of 1914 a small, independent religious group was sharing with other denominational bodies the Union City mission as a place to worship.
The group invited Rev. R.W. Leisher, Cincinnati, O., to conduct a series of evangelistic…

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First Nazarene Church . . . had its beginning in a tent on the grounds now occupied by Thomas Jefferson High School.

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Standing At The Entrance . . . of the new sanctuary of First Church of the Nazarene at Twenty-sixth Street and Avenue A, is the Rev. A.D. Foster. The pastor and his family, the members and visitors will enter the church Sunday in units to worship…

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Top - This Spacious Lounge . . . is located immediately at the entrance of the new First Christian educational unit. Its green-blue carpeting is complemented by furnishings in matching greens and blues, and accented with lamps of a burnt orange hue.…
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