The village of New Haven was platted Feb. 27, 1854. It was a complete town including a grist mill or sawmill, blacksmith shop, stores and a cemetery. There was no bridge across the Wapsi in those days and it was a complete village. The dam and sawmill were constructed by Samuel Sherwood, mill owner, in…
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The motion picture arrived in Buchanan County in much the same way as it did in most small towns across the heart of the country. As word of mouth spread the lucrative lure of showing moving photoplays, existing music halls and opera house scrambled to equip their auditoriums with projection equipment. By 1910, the motion…
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1905-1965 M.J. GoodrichG.R. LockwoodE.A. JewettG.R. LockwoodDayton H. WinterFrank KipleRalph J. FarrisJ.J. Jorgensen
Full Article >>RUSH PARK SEED COMPANYIndependence, Iowa Reprint “History of Buchanan County, Iowa and It’s People” 1914 “The Rush Park Seed Company,” one of the largest seed depots in the west, was organized and incorporated in November, 1889, and went into the seed business on a comparatively small scale, occupying one store building on Chatham St., opposite…
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RUSH PARK ERA‘AXTELL’ THE STALLION‘ALLERTON’ THE STALLION AXTELL “Axtell” was foaled on March 31, 1886. His sire was William L., a son of George Wilkes, who was one of the best producing sons of Rysdky’s Hambletonian, the founder of the trotting horse family of America. His dam, Lou, was by Mambrino Boy out of Bird…
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Independence, Iowa On March, 11, 1873, a delegation from the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern railroad company visited Independence to talk to the citizens on a proposed project to complete the “Postville Branch” of the B.C.R. and N railroad line through Independence. (this railroad latter became the Rock Island railroad). The railroad line built a…
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Robert Byron Tabor (1882-1972) Mr. Tabor was born in Independence, Iowa and spent most of his life in the Independence and Oelwein area. He began to paint at the age of 52. One of his first oils, painted under the Public Works of Art Project, was selected by Edward Bruce, director of the project, as one of…
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