Download or read book History of Kossuth and Humbolt Counties Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Kossuth County Iowa written by Benjamin F. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Kossuth County Iowa written by Benjamin F. Reed and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the Organization of Counties in Iowa written by Jacob Armstrong Swisher and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Mitchell and Worth Counties Iowa and Biographies of Representative Citizens History of Iowa Embracing Accounts of the Pre historic Races and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Military History written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Iowa State Gazetteer Embracing Descriptive and Historical Sketches of Counties Cities Towns and Villages to which is Added a Shippers Guide and a Classified Business Directory Compiled and Edited by J T Hair written by James T. Hair and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names written by Tom Savage and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lourdes and Churchtown, Woden and Clio, Emerson and Sigourney, Tripoli and Waterloo, Prairie City and Prairieburg, Tama and Swedesburg, What Cheer and Coin. Iowa’s place-names reflect the religions, myths, cultures, families, heroes, whimsies, and misspellings of the Hawkeye State’s inhabitants. Tom Savage spent four years corresponding with librarians, city and county officials, and local historians, reading newspaper archives, and exploring local websites in an effort to find out why these communities received their particular names, when they were established, and when they were incorporated. Savage includes information on the place-names of all 1,188 incorporated and unincorporated communities in Iowa that meet at least two of the following qualifications: twenty-five or more residents; a retail business; an annual celebration or festival; a school; church, or cemetery; a building on the National Register of Historic Places; a zip-coded post office; or an association with a public recreation site. If a town’s name has changed over the years, he provides information about each name; if a name’s provenance is unclear, he provides possible explanations. He also includes information about the state’s name and about each of its ninety-nine counties as well as a list of ghost towns. The entries range from the counties of Adair to Wright and from the towns of Abingdon to Zwingle; from Iowa’s oldest town, Dubuque, starting as a mining camp in the 1780s and incorporated in 1841, to its newest, Maharishi Vedic City, incorporated in 2001. The imaginations and experiences of its citizens played a role in the naming of Iowa’s communities, as did the hopes of the huge influx of immigrants who settled the state in the 1800s. Tom Savage’s dictionary of place-names provides an appealing genealogical and historical background to today’s map of Iowa. “It is one of the beauties of Iowa that travel across the state brings a person into contact with so many wonderful names, some of which a traveler may understand immediately, but others may require a bit of investigation. Like the poet Stephen Vincent Benét, we have fallen in love with American names. They are part of our soul, be they family names, town names, or artifact names. We identify with them and are identified with them, and we cannot live without them. This book will help us learn more about them and integrate them into our beings.”—from the foreword by Loren N. Horton “Primghar, O’Brien County. Primghar was established by W. C. Green and James Roberts on November 8, 1872. The name of the town comes from the initials of the eight men who were instrumental in developing it. A short poem memorializes the men and their names: Pumphrey, the treasurer, drives the first nail; Roberts, the donor, is quick on his trail; Inman dips slyly his first letter in; McCormack adds M, which makes the full Prim; Green, thinking of groceries, gives them the G; Hayes drops them an H, without asking a fee; Albright, the joker, with his jokes all at par; Rerick brings up the rear and crowns all ‘Primghar.’ Primghar was incorporated on February 15, 1888.”

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Download or read book Literature of Pioneer Life in Iowa written by Frank Luther Mott and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hook Eye written by Donovan L. Hofsommer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the colorful history of the Iowa Central Railway and its valuable contributions to the development of the upper Midwest, chronicling the origins, growth, and eventual dismantling of the railroad and assessing its relationship with its customers, its influence on the state's agricultural and industrial commerce, and more.

Download or read book History of Linn County Iowa written by Luther Albertus Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of County Histories of the 3050 Counties in the 48 States written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Emmet County and Dickinson County Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa written by Iowa. Historical Department and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of County Histories of the 3050 Counties in the 48 States Compiled by Ex Lieut C Stewart Peterson M A Prepared in 1935 2982 Counties Revised 1944 written by Clarence Stewart Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: