1976-Bicentennial Iowa City – Section I – Pages 5-8

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Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.
Page I6 – Johanna Beers gives us an overview of some of the memorable July 4th celebrations held in Iowa City/Johnson County over the years including the very first on July 4, 1837.

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The Story of Napoleon, Iowa – 1832-1839.
Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.
Iowa City’s Humble Beginnings.
Iowa City – A July 4th Celebration.
Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1839.
Iowa City 1839-1939 Centennial
The Press-Citizen Celebrates Iowa City’s Centennial.
Pages I7 (above) and I8 (below) – Nadine M. Ibbotson offers an overview of the abolitionist – John Brown – and his regular trips through eastern Iowa as he worked against the evils of slavery.

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Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.
The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.
1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators. William Penn Clarke – Iowa City’s Abolitionist
George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.
Iowa, Slavery, & The Underground Railroad.
Learning From History – Wide Awake Vs. Woke.
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Kudos to the amazing resources below for the many quotes, photographs, etc. used on this page.

July 4, 1837: a ‘glorious drunk’, Johanna N. Beers, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 81

John Brown visits the Quakers in Springdale…and flees an ice cream parlor in Iowa City, Nadine M. Ibbotson, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, pp 82-83