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| fort dodge ia history: Fort Dodge Roger B. Natte, 2008 Fort Dodge was founded in 1850 as a military post to police the Iowa frontier. A subsequent land boom created fortunes that were reinvested in the local economy. The town soon earned the nickname Mineral City because of the extensive deposits of coal, gypsum, limestone, and clay. By 1900, the city was a rail center and the world's largest producer of gypsum products. With a highly diversified economy, the city prospered and by World War I was able to claim to have more skyscrapers per capita than any other city in the Midwest and beautiful public buildings designed by some of the nation's leading architects. Between 1900 and 1925, Fort Dodge enjoyed the role as an important political center and the home of two U.S. senators, the director of the U.S. Mint, the solicitor of the Department of the Treasury, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and the first presidential press secretary and speechwriter. Sons and daughters of the community went on to establish national reputations in art, music, literature, science, and journalism. Images used in this volume come primarily from the archives of the Webster County Historical Society and were chosen to represent the changing character of the community from 1850 to 1970. |
| fort dodge ia history: Fort Dodge: 1850-1970 Roger B. Natte, 2008-10 Fort Dodge was founded in 1850 as a military post to police the Iowa frontier. A subsequent land boom created fortunes that were reinvested in the local economy. The town soon earned the nickname Mineral City because of the extensive deposits of coal, gypsum, limestone, and clay. By 1900, the city was a rail center and the world's largest producer of gypsum products. With a highly diversified economy, the city prospered and by World War I was able to claim to have more skyscrapers per capita than any other city in the Midwest and beautiful public buildings designed by some of the nation's leading architects. Between 1900 and 1925, Fort Dodge enjoyed the role as an important political center and the home of two U.S. senators, the director of the U.S. Mint, the solicitor of the Department of the Treasury, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, and the first presidential press secretary and speechwriter. Sons and daughters of the community went on to establish national reputations in art, music, literature, science, and journalism. Images used in this volume come primarily from the archives of the Webster County Historical Society and were chosen to represent the changing character of the community from 1850 to 1970. |
| fort dodge ia history: Fort Dodge Alan Nelson, 2018-06-14 |
| fort dodge ia history: Iowa Factories , 1912-02 |
| fort dodge ia history: Camp Devens , 1918 |
| fort dodge ia history: Iowa Farm Management Surveys H. B. Munger, 1921 |
| fort dodge ia history: History of Clay County, Iowa Samuel Gillespie, James E. Steele, 1909 |
| fort dodge ia history: A Colossal Hoax Scott Tribble, 2008-12-16 In October 1869, as America stood on the brink of becoming a thoroughly modern nation, workers unearthed what appeared to be a petrified ten-foot giant on a remote farm in upstate New York. The discovery caused a sensation. Over the next several months, newspapers devoted daily headlines to the story and tens of thousands of Americans—including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the great showman P. T. Barnum—flocked to see the giant on exhibition. In the colossus, many saw evidence that their continent, and the tiny hamlet of Cardiff, had ties to Biblical history. American science also weighed in on the discovery, and in doing so revealed its own growing pains, including the shortcomings of traditional education, the weaknesses of archaeological methodology, as well as the vexing presence of amateurs and charlatans within its ranks. A national debate ensued over the giant's origins, and was played out in the daily press. Ultimately, the discovery proved to be an elaborate hoax. Still, the story of the Cardiff Giant reveals many things about America in the post-Civil War years. After four years of destruction on an unimagined scale, Americans had increasingly turned their attention to the renewal of progress. But the story of the Cardiff Giant seemed to shed light on a complicated, mysterious past, and for a time scientists, clergymen, newspaper editors, and ordinary Americans struggled to make sense of it. Hucksters, of course, did their best to take advantage of it. The Cardiff Giant was one of the leading questions of the day, and how citizens answered it said much about Americans in 1869 as well as about America more generally. |
| fort dodge ia history: Iowa Library Quarterly , 1912 |
| fort dodge ia history: The History of Jasper County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c , 1878 |
| fort dodge ia history: History of Fort Dodge and Webster County, Iowa Harlow Munson Pratt, Harlow Munson Pratt b. 1876, 2001 |
| fort dodge ia history: General Sheridan Henry Eugene Davies, 1895 |
| fort dodge ia history: The Presbyterian Church in Iowa, 1837-1900 Joseph Welton Hubbard, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Iowa, 1907 |
| fort dodge ia history: History of Linn County Iowa Luther Albertus Brewer, Barthinius Larson Wick, 1911 |
| fort dodge ia history: Okoboji and the Iowa Great Lakes Jonathan M. Reed, 2017-05-22 Generation after generation, families of vacationers have returned to northwestern Iowa's Okoboji and the Iowa Great Lakes for summertime rest and recreation. From the earliest pioneer days to the Spirit Lake Massacre to the first rustic outdoorsmen's accommodations, this deep glacial lake and its sister prairie lakes have been embraced by visitors for more than 150 years. Slow growing until rail service in 1882, the area saw investment in the form of the Orleans, the grandest hotel west of the Mississippi, which was demolished a scant 15 years later. By then, though, word had gotten out, and Lake Okoboji's wooded bluffs and sandy beaches became places of quiet repose for vacationers. Resorts of all sizes drew the wealthy and modest alike. Among the area's attractions were Arnolds Park Amusement Park; the Roof Garden; the Casino, Central, and Inn ballrooms; thrilling boat rides; skating; and summertime bathing in the revitalizing waters. Now largely given over to private residences of all sizes, the many marinas and public areas still draw summertime visitors intent on forging their own indelible memories. |
| fort dodge ia history: Long Past Slavery Catherine A. Stewart, 2016-02-05 From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories of bondage, emancipation, and life as freedpeople were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society. Stewart demonstrates how project administrators, such as the folklorist John Lomax; white and black interviewers, including Zora Neale Hurston; and the ex-slaves themselves fought to shape understandings of black identity. She reveals that some influential project employees were also members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, intent on memorializing the Old South. Stewart places ex-slaves at the center of debates over black citizenship to illuminate African Americans' struggle to redefine their past as well as their future in the face of formidable opposition. By shedding new light on a critically important episode in the history of race, remembrance, and the legacy of slavery in the United States, Stewart compels readers to rethink a prominent archive used to construct that history. |
| fort dodge ia history: History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner Abbie Gardner-Sharp, 1885 |
| fort dodge ia history: Physical Features and Geologic History of Des Moines Valley ... James Henry Lees, 1916 |
| fort dodge ia history: On the Way to Iowa Laenas Gifford Weld, 1910 |
| fort dodge ia history: The Lutheran Witness , 1887 |
| fort dodge ia history: History of Taylor County, Iowa Frank E. Crosson, 1910 |
| fort dodge ia history: A Culinary History of Iowa Darcy Dougherty Maulsby, 2018-08-06 This volume serves up a bountiful combination of local history, classic recipes, and colorful Midwestern food lore. Iowa’s delectable cuisine is quintessentially midwestern, grounded in its rich farming heritage and spiced with diverse ethnic influences. Classics like fresh sweet corn and breaded pork tenderloins are found on menus and in home kitchens across the state. At the world-famous Iowa State Fair, a dizzying array of food on a stick commands a nationwide cult following. From Maid-Rites to the moveable feast known as RAGBRAI, A Culinary History of Iowa reveals the remarkable stories behind Iowa originals. Find recipes for favorites ranging from classic Iowa ham balls and Steak de Burgo to homemade cinnamon rolls—served with chili, of course! |
| fort dodge ia history: Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes Darcy Dougherty Maulsby, 2020-11-02 With Italian steakhouses, the Younkers Tea Room and Stella's Blue Sky Diner, Des Moines's culinary history is tantalizingly diverse. It is filled with colorful characters like bootlegger/millionaire bus boy Babe Bisignano, a buxom bar owner named Ruthie and future president of the United States Ronald Reagan. The savory details reveal deeper stories of race relations, women's rights, Iowa caucus politics, the arts, immigration and assimilation. Don't be surprised if you experience sudden cravings for Steak de Burgo, fried pork tenderloin sandwiches and chocolate ambrosia pie, à la Bishop's Buffet. Author Darcy Dougherty Maulsby serves up a feast of Des Moines classics mixed with Iowa history, complete with iconic recipes. |
| fort dodge ia history: Iowa Official Register , 1907 |
| fort dodge ia history: History of Jackson County, Iowa James Whitcomb Ellis, 1910 |
| fort dodge ia history: How to Raise Chickens for Meat Michelle Marine, 2020-03-03 If self-sufficiency and raising your own food is important to you, this book will help you pull together a complete farm-to-table experience. Gone are the days when grandma headed to the chicken coop in search of dinner. In this day and age, when fewer and fewer people know where their food comes from, How to Raise Chickens for Meat helps families take control of their food supply once again. Divided into four easy-to-navigate sections,How to Raise Chickens for Meat is packed with practical information. The first section, Getting Started, includes information on breed specifics, timing, and quantity. This section will help you analyze options and make informed decisions as you get started. The second section, Care & Feeding, dives into the specifics of keeping your flock healthy. Learn how to set up a brooder, what to feed your chickens, how to safely pasture them, and how to keep your flock stress-free. The third section, Butchering, prepares you for one of the more challenging parts of raising chickens for meat. It addresses some of the emotions you may feel along with the actual process of butchering and provides practical tips to make it easier. It also discusses alternative options if you don’t want to process your own chickens. The book concludes with cooking tips and delicious tried and true farm-to-table recipes to impress even the most doubtful family member! How to Raise Chickens for Meat is the resource your homestead library has been missing. |
| fort dodge ia history: The History of Early Terre Haute from 1816 to 1840 Blackford Condit, 1900 |
| fort dodge ia history: The Progress of Sanitation National Trade Extension Bureau, 1926 |
| fort dodge ia history: The Hollanders of Iowa Jacob Van der Zee, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1912 |
| fort dodge ia history: The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, Loren Horton, 2009-05 Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation’s affairs. Iowa’s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball players, musicians, artists, writers, politicians, scientists, conservationists, preachers, educators, and activists continue to enrich our lives and inspire our imaginations. Written by an impressive team of more than 150 scholars and writers, the readable narratives include each subject’s name, birth and death dates, place of birth, education, and career and contributions. Many of the names will be instantly recognizable to most Iowans; others are largely forgotten but deserve to be remembered. Beyond the distinctive lives and times captured in the individual biographies, readers of the dictionary will gain an appreciation for how the character of the state has been shaped by the character of the individuals who have inhabited it. From Dudley Warren Adams, fruit grower and Grange leader, to the Younker brothers, founders of one of Iowa’s most successful department stores, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa is peopled with the rewarding lives of more than four hundred notable citizens of the Hawkeye State. The histories contained in this essential reference work should be eagerly read by anyone who cares about Iowa and its citizens. Entries include Cap Anson, Bix Beiderbecke, Black Hawk, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, William Carpenter, Philip Greeley Clapp, Gardner Cowles Sr., Samuel Ryan Curtis, Jay Norwood Darling, Grenville Dodge, Julien Dubuque, August S. Duesenberg, Paul Engle, Phyllis L. Propp Fowle, George Gallup, Hamlin Garland, Susan Glaspell, Josiah Grinnell, Charles Hearst, Josephine Herbst, Herbert Hoover, Inkpaduta, Louis Jolliet, MacKinlay Kantor, Keokuk, Aldo Leopold, John L. Lewis, Marquette, Elmer Maytag, Christian Metz, Bertha Shambaugh, Ruth Suckow, Billy Sunday, Henry Wallace, and Grant Wood. Excerpt from the entry on: Gallup, George Horace (November 19, 1901–July 26, 1984)—founder of the American Institute of Public Opinion, better known as the Gallup Poll, whose name was synonymous with public opinion polling around the world—was born in Jefferson, Iowa. . . . . A New Yorker article would later speculate that it was Gallup’s background in “utterly normal Iowa” that enabled him to find “nothing odd in the idea that one man might represent, statistically, ten thousand or more of his own kind.” . . . In 1935 Gallup partnered with Harry Anderson to found the American Institute of Public Opinion, based in Princeton, New Jersey, an opinion polling firm that included a syndicated newspaper column called “America Speaks.” The reputation of the organization was made when Gallup publicly challenged the polling techniques of The Literary Digest, the best-known political straw poll of the day. Calculating that the Digest would wrongly predict that Kansas Republican Alf Landon would win the presidential election, Gallup offered newspapers a money-back guarantee if his prediction that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would win wasn’t more accurate. Gallup believed that public opinion polls served an important function in a democracy: “If govern¬ment is supposed to be based on the will of the people, somebody ought to go and find what that will is,” Gallup explained. |
| fort dodge ia history: Spirit Lake MacKinlay Kantor, |
| fort dodge ia history: The Bicentennial of the United States of America American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 1977 |
| fort dodge ia history: Carnegie Libraries George Sylvan Bobinski, 1969 Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation provided funding for 1,681 public library buildings in 1,412 U.S. communities between 1889 and 1923. This philanthropy had a great impact on the growth of public library development in the United States. Free public libraries supported by local taxation had begun with Boston in 1849 and slowly spread throughout the country. The Carnegie benefactions made them leap forward. This internationally famous celebrity chose libraries as one of the primary sources for his philanthropy. He also attached two conditions to his offer of money for a public library building--the local community had to provide a suitable site and formally agree to continuously support the library through local tax funds. The latter solidified acceptance of the concept of tax support for libraries. |
| fort dodge ia history: Iowa's Geological Past Wayne I. Anderson, 1998 Iowa's rock record is the product of more than three billion years of geological processes. The state endured multiple episodes of continental glaciation during the Pleistocene Ice Age, and the last glacier retreated from Iowa a mere (geologically speaking) twelve thousand years ago. Prior to that, dozens of seas came and went, leaving behind limestone beds with rich fossil records. Lush coal swamps, salty lagoons, briny basins, enormous alluvial plains, ancient rifts, and rugged Precambrian mountain belts all left their mark. In Iowa's Geological Past, Wayne Anderson gives us an up-to-date and well-informed account of the state's vast geological history from the Precambrian through the end of the Great Ice Age. Anderson takes us on a journey backward into time to explore Iowa's rock-and-sediment record. In the distant past, prehistoric Iowa was covered with shallow seas; coniferous forests flourished in areas beyond the continental glaciers; and a wide variety of animals existed, including mastodon, mammoth, musk ox, giant beaver, camel, and giant sloth. The presence of humans can be traced back to the Paleo-Indian interval, 9,500 to 7,500 years ago. Iowa in Paleozoic time experienced numerous coastal plain and shallow marine environments. Early in the Precambrian, Iowa was part of ancient mountain belts in which granite and other rocks were formed well below the earth's surface. The hills and valleys of the Hawkeye State are not everlasting when viewed from the perspective of geologic time. Overall, Iowa's geologic column records an extraordinary transformation over more than three billion years. Wayne Anderson's profusely illustrated volume provides a comprehensive and accessible survey of the state's remarkable geological past. |
| fort dodge ia history: Index of Articles Upon American Local History in Historical Collections in the Boston Public Library Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin, 1889 |
| fort dodge ia history: American Military History Volume 1 Army Center of Military History, 2016-06-05 American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009. |
| fort dodge ia history: Master Register of Bicentennial Projects, February 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, 1976 |
| fort dodge ia history: Index of articles upon American local history... Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin, 1889 |
| fort dodge ia history: Burying the Lede Joseph LeValley, 2019-06-03 A horrific double murder in small town Iowa leads to the arrest and trial of the young man who owned the murder weapon. Tony Harrington, a reporter for the local daily paper, doesn't believe the man is guilty. His search for the truth sparks a chain of events with tragic consequences. Undaunted, Tony pushes on, risking everything to uncover the most important facts - the story's true lede. But even Tony can't imagine the magnitude of the evil he's facing or the true purpose behind the crimes that have besieged this quiet Iowa town.A first novel from author Joseph LeValley, Burying the Lede has it all: mystery, courtroom drama, romance, action, tragedy, villains, and heroes. Throughout the book, LeValley draws on his real-life experiences as a newspaper reporter to create a narrative with compelling details about the worlds of newspapers and the criminal justice system. The novel is as entertaining as it is shocking. Once you start reading Burying the Lede, you won't want to put it down. And each time Tony Harrington gets called out in the middle of the night, you will find yourself looking forward to going along for the ride. |
| fort dodge ia history: Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library, 1971 |
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FORWARD & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
our vision of making Fort Dodge America’s Best Community. Warm Regards, Matt Bemrich, Mayor Fort Dodge, Iowa
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Total Population for Iowa's Incorporated Places: 1850-2000 Area 2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 1950 1940 1930 1920 1910 1900 1890 1880 1870 1860 1850
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Iowa’s biggest interurban — the Fort Dodge, Des Moines &Southern Railway — began as a small coal carrier running from mine to connecting railroad. Later it expanded and became a com …
Fort Dodge in 1857 - pubs.lib.uiowa.edu
Fort Dodge was first selected as a Military Post in 1849 by General Mason, then Colonel of the Sixth Regiment of United States Infantry. He was ordered at that time to select a post to keep …
The Railway Age - Historic Bridges .org
Prior to 1901 the Mason City & Ft. Dodge Railroad was an independent road between these two Iowa cities, but the management of the Chicago Great Western Railway, desiring to gain an …
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UNIQUE GEOLOGY OF THE FORT …
Fortunately for the members of the Geological Society of Iowa (GSI), the Fort Dodge area hosts some of the most unique bedrock geology in the state; such as the basal limestone-clast …
FORWARD & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
our vision of making Fort Dodge America’s Best Community. Warm Regards, Matt Bemrich, Mayor Fort Dodge, Iowa
Wartime Illusions and Disillusionment: Camp Dodge and …
The opening of Fort Des Moines in June 1917 signaled an auspicious beginning for the new era of race relations in Iowa's capital city—especially when the army insisted that no segregation …
COURTESY WEBSTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY …
Born October 22,1831, on a farm in Erie County, the next U.S. land office and was also on the pro posed route of a railroad originating in Chicago, which would pass through Dubuque, Fort …
FLOODS IN THE UPPER DES MOINES RIVER BASIN, IOWA
basin upstream from Fort Dodge saturated the ground. The second period, September 11-14, had a somewhat lesser amount of rain which fell on wet earth and caused extensive flooding. At …
Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training - stcia.com
Dodge, was christened and opened for use by Adjutant General Guy Logan in 1910. While the site was used sparingly in the days leading up to the U.S. entrance into World War I, Des …
2. Cultural Resources - Polk County Iowa
Human habitation in central Iowa can be traced almost as far back as the end of the glacial period some 14,000 years ago. Paleo-Indian hunters visited central Iowa between 13,000 and 10,500 …
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The community of Fort Dodge traces its origins to the U.S. Army’s establishment of Fort Clark in 1850. The military post was set up and occupied by the troops of Company E of the 6th …
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Fort Dodge is home to everything from historical destinations such as the landen Memorial Art Museum, the Fort Museum, a recreation of a 19th-century military outpost, and designated as …
Reporr of Major Williams - University of Iowa
City and Fort Dodge men led by Major William Williams of Fort Dodge. Born in Huntington, Pennsylvania, in 1796, Williams arrived in Iowa in 1849 and joined the expedition sent to …
The Greater Iowan - Fort Dodge, Iowa
African Americans have had a rich and influential position in Iowa’s history. The first African Americans arrived in Iowa around 1838, coming to help settle the territory.
Ruin or Renewal: The United Packinghouse Workers of …
Nov 4, 2021 · AT 12:01 A.M. on March 16,1948, twenty thousand Iowa mem-bers of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) walked off their jobs in fifteen plants throughout …
Total Population for Iowa's Incorporated Places: 1850-2000 …
Total Population for Iowa's Incorporated Places: 1850-2000 Area 2000 1990 1980 1970 1960 1950 1940 1930 1920 1910 1900 1890 1880 1870 1860 1850
IHSAA STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: ALL-TIME RESULTS …
Fort Dodge 47, Oskaloosa 22 . Semifinals. Cedar Rapids 26, Sioux City 16 . Fort Dodge 40, Council Bluffs 25 . Consolation. Council Bluffs 24, Sioux City 14 . Championship. Cedar …
Made from Mud: Iowa Potters & Potteries, 1830-1930
owa potteries were concentrated where Ideposits of clay and coal (for kiln fuel) were available, especially in the Des Moines Riv er valley or around Fort Dodge, Davenport, Des Moines, and …
HISTORY OF THE MITCHELL’S MUSCLE ENERGY TECHNIQUE …
In March 1970 I hosted Fred’s first tutorial in my home/office in Fort Dodge, IA. Six of us spent five days (and most evenings) as Fred taught us about this new Muscle Energy
THE EARLY HISTORY OF PERRY, IOWA - University of Iowa
Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad and the town was dubbed Perr)' in honor of an official in Keokuk. Regular train service began on July 4, 1869, an ujifor-gettable day for the jubilant …
