Index of Stories.

As you can see, our growing website Our Iowa Heritage covers a lot of time (pre-1800 to the present) and a lot of people. We’ve written about famous people and the not-so-famous ones as well. Yet, despite a person’s prominence (or lack of it), everybody has a story. And as you read our posts, you’ll hopefully discover that everyone’s story is a good one. So, in order to better find these good stories and details surrounding them, we’ve added this MASTER INDEX of HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS to help you along the way. Enjoy your journey.

Our Iowa Heritage: An Introduction. We might suggest you start here! Here’s how & why I got started collecting stamps, coins, and other Iowa memorabilia.
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Johnson County ‘Firsts’.

The Claim Association – Johnson County’s Welcome Wagon.

The Log Cabins Of Johnson County.

Courting Johnson County.

The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.

The U.S. Post Office Comes To Johnson County.

The Lost Towns, Villages & Post Offices Of Johnson County.

Iowa Territory 1838-1846.

Welcome To Iowa, Governor Lucas.

July 4, 1838 – Welcome To Iowa Territory.

A Spooky Halloween Story – Burlington, Iowa – 1838.

Laurel Summers – The Man Who Saved Iowa City.

Philip Clark – Johnson County’s Irish Settler.

The Midnight Ride Of Philip Clark.

Iowa City’s Humble Beginnings.

Chauncey Swan – The Father Of Iowa City.

Surveying the Life of Cyrus Sanders – Iowa City Pioneer.

Cyrus Sanders – My 1839 Iowa Adventure.

Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1839.

Robert R. Hutchinson – Iowa City’s Jack Of All Trades.

Lyman Dillon – Plowing The Straight & Narrow.

On The Road To Iowa City.

1839 – The Twenty-Four Streets Of Iowa City.

1839-1842 – Iowa City’s First Hotels.

Iowa City’s Extant Classics – The Survivors.

1839 Iowa City – One Square Mile That Lives On.

Iowa City’s Good Doctor – Henry Murray.

Sylvanus Johnson – Mr. Red Brick.

Clinton Street – Iowa City’s Center Of Commerce.

Iowa City’s Grocery Stores – The First 60 Years.

Ahoy, Frederick Irish – The Iowa City Sea Captain.

Iowa City’s Rose Hill – Irish’s Woods.

John F. Rague – Creator Of A Classic.

The Old Capitol Gem That Got Away.

Parvin & Aldrich – Making & Collecting Iowa History.

N.R. Parvin – Like Father, Like Son.

Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!

Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.

T. S. Wilson – Dubuque’s Good Neighbor

Recommending John W. Finley – Dubuque’s Good Doctor.

1839 – The Iowa & Missouri Honey War.

The Iowa Colonel Who Helped Stop The Honey War.
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1840 – Isaac Galland & His Iowa Emigrant Travel Guide.

1840 – Sketches Of Iowa City – J. B. Newhall.

1840 – The Road From Bloomington To Iowa City.

Iowa City Stage Ready – 1840-1870.

1840’s-1890’s – Iowa City’s Classic Hotels.

Entertainment Tonight – Iowa City – The First 50 Years.

H. D. Downey – Iowa City Esquire.

Jesse Williams – Rescuing Iowa’s New Capitol – 1841.

1841 – The Sudden Death Of A U.S. President.

Steamboat’s A-Comin’ – Maybe?

Let The City-Wide Celebration Begin: 1841.

Iowa Newspapers – The Early Years.

The Iowa City Newspaper Wars.

Walter Butler – A True Servant’s Heart.

Oliver Weld – Keosauqua’s Young Representative.

January 1842 – A Letter From The Fourth Assembly.

Scott County’s Representative – James Grant.

When Old Capitol Was The New Capitol: 1841-1857.

Gilman Folsom – Crossing The Iowa River.

Letters To Gilman Folsom – Iowa City Pioneer.

Walter Terrell & His Waterworks.

Coralville – Taming The Iowa River.

Rev. W.W. Woods – Bringing The Gospel To Iowa City.

1843 – A Letter To The Major Of Monongahela Valley.

Iowa City – April 1843 – The Letter Back Home.

Surveying Johnson County’s Cedar Township – September 1843.

1844 – A View From The Capitol’s Cupola.

1844 – The Drive To Statehood.

1844 – The Great Lee County Road Debate.

Dear Iowa City – Build Us A Road!

Ten Iconic Bells Of Iowa City.

A.H. Palmer – Iowa City’s Old Growler.

Iowa City’s Old Growler – Part Two.

Curtis Bates – The Christmas Day Letter From Iowa City.

Judge Williams & Legal Troubles In Bloomington.

J.H. Gower – Iowa City’s Farm To Riches Story.
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The 1850’s – The Birth Of Iowa Railroads.

RFRIC – The Lyons – Iowa Central Railroad.

The Mississippi & Missouri Railroad – Volume I – 1845-1855.

The Mississippi & Missouri – Iowa’s First Railway System.

RFRIC – The M&M & CRI&P Railroad.

1850’s – Surveying This New Land Called Iowa.

1850’s – Meet Some New Iowa City Friends.

Fales To Mason – Iowa City To Burlington – 1850.

A Burlington Hawkeye Keepsake.

The Terrell Mansion – From Tea To A Red Ball To The Mayflower.

Folsom’s Fury – Building A Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Iowa City’s Lemuel B. Patterson & Family.

Tracking Down Iowa City’s Boyd Wilkinson.

1852 – The Red Rock Wild West Murder Mystery.

Jacob B. Boller & Catharine Smucker.

The Boller Farms of Johnson County, Iowa – 1853.

Meet Iowa City’s Mayors – 1853 To Today – Introduction.

Meet Iowa City’s Mayors – 1853-1869.

1853 – The $50,000 Investment In Iowa City’s Future.

Louis Englert – Iowa City’s Bavarian Beer Man.

Opening Doors For The Visually Impaired.

Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.

The Letters Of Governor James W. Grimes.

1853 – Grimes To Mason – Farmer To Farmer.

Iowa City – Coast To Coast.

George H. Yewell – Iowa City’s Pioneer Artist.

Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of George Yewell.

Isaac A. Wetherby – One Artist With Many Dreams.

Iowa City – Through The Eyes Of Isaac Wetherby.

Celebrating The Iowa State Fair.

The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.

1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators.
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Iowa Celebrates The Roaring 1920’s.

1920’s – The Rehabilitation Of Old Capitol.

1921 – Iowa City’s First Black Business Owners.

Iowa City & EKKO Radio Stamps.

Iowa City’s Candy Couple – Russell & Clara Stover.

Dixie C. Gebhardt – Iowa’s Own Betsy Ross.

Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.

Meet ‘Herzonner’ Emma J. Harvat.

Meet Iowa City’s Mayors – 1925-1961.

John Springer – The Pioneer Printer Remembers.

Fred W. Kent – Continuing The Photographic Tradition.

Fred W. Kent’s Iowa City Classics.

Wetherby & Kent – Two Generations – Two Cameras – One City.

Bicentennial Iowa City – A Fred Kent Album.

A Fred W. Kent Campus Tour – Then & Now.

The Hawkeyes Take The Field.

SUI Mascots – The Big Three.

Iowa Homecoming: Hawkeye-Style.

Henry County To Iowa City – The Red Ball Route.

Karl L. King – Iowa’s March King.

Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.

Meet Lulu Johnson – Johnson County’s New Namesake.

SUI’s A. Craig Baird – The Father of International Debate.

Waldo E. Boller & Olive A. Hulme.

Boller Furniture Company – Wayland’s Finest For 45 Years – Generation Two.

The Daily Iowan – The Newspaper For Hawkeyes.

Political Cartooning – A Rich Iowa Tradition.

Thomas Nast – The Father of Political Cartooning.

Sippin’ Me Some Dingleberry Dew.

1928-1929: From Iowa Field To Iowa Stadium.

Ding Darling & Herbert Hoover – Two Iowa Friends.

An American President – Herbert Hoover.

Boyhood Days In Iowa – Herbert Hoover.
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1838 to Today – Unity Through Diversity.

Rich Stories of Diversity Timeline.

Iowa – This Is The Place.

Ancient Iowa – Exploring The Land.

Meskwaki People – True Native Iowans.

Preserving The Meskwaki Language of Iowa.

Black Hawk Of Saukenuk.

Chief Poweshiek – The Roused Brown Bear.

Honoring The Ioway Tribe Of Johnson County.

Our Indigenous Land Acknowledgment.

The Johnson County Business Meeting That Changed Iowa History.

Alexander Levi – Dubuque’s Man Of Firsts.

Welcome To Salubria, Iowa!

Ralph + Wilson + Mason = The Road To Freedom.

Coralville – Taming The Iowa River.

1849 – Iowans Want The Transcontinental Railroad!

1853 – Opening Doors For The Visually Impaired.

Gov. James W. Grimes – The ‘Wide Awake’ Father Of Republicanism.

William Penn Clarke – Iowa City’s Abolitionist.

George D. Woodin & The Lane Trail.

The Wide Awake Abolitionist & Keeper Of The Fair.

1850’s – The Rise & Fall Of Iowa’s First Two Senators.

Learning From History – Wide Awake Vs. Woke.

Iowa, Slavery, & The Underground Railroad.

Mrs. C.C. Berry – Surviving The 1859 Tornado.

Iowa & The Civil War – 1861-1865.

St. Agatha’s of Iowa City – Breaking The Glass Ceiling.

Wm. G. Hammond – Let There Be Law In Iowa City!

Clark + Clark + Cole = Equality in Education.

Coger + Beck + Miller = Liberty & Justice For All.

Meet The Hoxies – The Iowa General & Wisconsin Sculptor.

1889 – Eva Emery Dye – Romancing The Iowa City Story.

George Washington Carver – Iowa’s Mr. Peanut.

Frank “Kinney” Holbrook – Tipton’s Iron Man.

Hannah Elizabeth Irish – Iowa City’s Business Entrepreneur.

Meet The Good People Of Block 98.

Making Music In Iowa City – 1906 To Today.

SUI & ICWRS – Helping Children Grow.

Carrie C. Catt – Iowa’s Champion for Women’s Rights.

Meet ‘Herzonner’ Emma J. Harvat.

1921 – Iowa City’s First Black Business Owners.

Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.

Meet Lulu Johnson – Johnson County’s New Namesake.

Ozzie Simmons + Racial Targeting = Floyd of Rosedale.

Remembering Helen Lemme – Grinnell’s Golden Girl.

Harriet P. Macy – Iowa’s Own Teaching Artist.

Mildred W. Pelzer – An Iowa City Artist.

The Mildred Pelzer Iowa City Murals.

1936 – Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Comes To Iowa City.

KXIC Radio – Sports & Talk – An Iowa City Icon.

Simon Estes – From Centerville to Center Stage.

Bethel AME – 150 Years Of Keeping The Faith In Iowa City.

A Penny From Heaven – Rev. Fred L. Penny.

The Day MLK Came To Iowa City.

Old Stone Capitol Remembers – Abraham, Martin, & John.

Lolly Parker Egger’s Library Legacy.

Iowa City’s Own Herstorian – Renée Sueppel.

‘Wild Bill’ Sackter – Iowa City’s Friendly Smile.

Mae Driscoll – Iowa City’s Compassionate Landlady.

Iowa City’s Man Of Compassion – Thomas Walz.

Over The Hill To The Poor Farm.

Making Elbow Room For A Pulitzer-Prize Winner.

Honoring James Alan McPherson.

Johnson County Remembrance Park.

October 15, 2023 – Setting Hawkeye Herstory!

The Caitlin Clark Effect.

Remembering Krysty.

2/2/25 – Caitlin Clark – Forever 22.

April 2025 – Hawkeye Women’s Basketball Returns To Coralville.
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