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February 1, 1806 – Zebulon M. Pike

February 1, 1908 – Oakdale Hall & The White Plague

February 1, 1967 – The Palimpsest – Iowa City Through The Years

February 2, 1838 – Burlington’s West Street

February 2, 1879 – St. Patrick’s Catholic Church

February 2, 2025 – Caitlin Clark Returns

February 3, 1894 – Fred W. Kent Is Born

February 3, 1985 – C.Vivian Stringer & UI Women’s Basketball, (2)

February 4, 1851 – Folsom’s Bridge In Iowa City

February 4, 1859 – John Brown Freedom Trail

February 4, 1946 – Sheriff Preston Koser – Mayor #43

February 5, 1909 – Iowa vs. Iowa State Basketball, (2)

February 5, 1936 – SUI Writers Workshop

February 6, 1825 – Teresa Feldevert’s husband – Nicholas Feldevert

February 6, 1838 – Establishing Iowa Territory

February 6, 1912 – Iowa Theatre In Iowa City

February 7, 1853 – Iowa Territorial Governor Robert Lucas

February 7, 1857 – SHSI In Iowa City Begins

February 7, 1965 – Virgil M. Hancher Memorial Service

February 8, 1843 – A Letter Promoting Iowa

February 8, 1896 – The Western Athletic Conference (Big Ten)

February 8, 1980 – St. Mary’s Catholic Church

February 9, 1934 – SUI’s A. Craig Baird

February 9, 1964 – Beatles – Till There Was You

February 9, 1979 – Irving Weber’s Top 25 Influencers

February 9, 2004 – Iowa City’s Hilltop Tavern

February 10, 1846 – Washington Township-Johnson County

February 10, 1890 – Map-maker A.T. Andreas

February 10, 2018 – Professor Thomas Walz

February 11, 1887 – Iowa City’s Deputy Marshal L.A. Clearman

February 11, 1893 – The Hunt Hotel – College Street

February 11, 1900 – Mennonite Church – Wayland, Iowa

February 12, 1909 – Lincoln’s Birthday Celebrated

February 12, 1951 – Iowa Fight Song, (2)

February 12, 1962 – Des Moines Register’s Ding Darling

February 13, 1891 – Grant Wood

February 13, 1926 – Englert Theatre Fire, (2)

February 14 – A Valentine’s Day Favorite, (2)

February 14, 1853 – Lyons-Iowa Central Railroad

February 15, 1846 – The Mormon Trail

February 15, 2024 – Caitlin Clark From The Logo, (2)

February 16, 1841 – Iowa Territorial Agent Jesse Williams

February 16, 1854 – M&M Locomotive – John A. Dix

February 16, 1939 – George’s Buffet Opens In Iowa City

February 17, 1876 – Slezak National Hall, (2)

February 17, 1989 – Iowa City Sesquicentennial

February 18, 1918 – Iowa Football Coach Forest “Evy” Evashevski

February 18, 1948 – Iowa City’s Thomas A. (Buster) Brown

February 18, 1983 – Des Moines Register’s Frank Miller

February 19, 1881 – Iowa City’s first telephone directory

February 19, 1936 – George W. Carver

February 19, 1942 – George & Dixie Boller – The War Years

February 20, 1843 – Ft. Des Moines #2, (2), (3)

February 21, 1891 – Iowa’s Own March King – Karl King

February 21, 1925 – The Iowa City Press-Citizen’s Weekly Radio Page

February 21, 2025 – The Mayors of Iowa City 1853-Today

February 22, 1831 – Iowa City’s Alfred B. Cree

February 22, 1845 – Washington’s Birthday Celebration

February 22, 1854 – Chicago & Rock Island Railroad

February 23, 1847 – Peter H. Patterson

February 23, 1976 – USPS Iowa State Flag Stamp

February 23, 2003 – Old Capitol Dome

February 24, 1859 – Abolitionist John Brown

February 24, 1905 – SUI Athletic Pavilion, (2)

February 25, 1847 – SUI’s Birthday

February 25, 1847 – The Marion Meteorite Affirms SUI, (2)

February 26, 1846 – Buffalo Bill Cody

February 26, 2021 – Lolly Parker Egger, (2)

February 27, 1847 – The Rock Island Railroad, (2)

February 27, 1867 – Otto Kuntze

February 28, 1825 – Jacob B. Boller, (2), (3)

February 28, 1929 – Hayden Fry

February 28, 1970 – PBS-Iowa City

February 29, 1892 – Leap Day

Below is a list of our weekly Pictures of the Week – posted in February…

February 22, 2026 – Alexander Clark, his 12-year-old daughter Susan

February 15, 2025 – Iowa City’s James Alan McPherson

February 8, 2026 – Iowa City’s Lulu Johnson

February 1, 2026 – Vivian C. Stringer & 1985 UI Women’s BB

February 23, 2025 – SUI’s Simon Estes

February 16, 2025 – Iowa City’s Lulu Johnson

February 9, 2025 – Iowa City’s Fred L. Penny

February 2, 2025 – Iowa City’s Helen Lemme

February 25, 2024 – Iowa City Telephone Operators

February 18, 2024 – 200,000 Hits!

February 11, 2024 – SUI Homeopathic Hospital

February 4, 2024 – Saving Slezak Hall!

February 26, 2023 – Meredith Willson – Iowa’s Music Man

February 19, 2023 – Iowa City – See Us Increase

February 12, 2023 – The Railroad Comes To Iowa City

February 5, 2023 – Ansel Briggs

From 2020 through 2023, we used this Did You Know? (DYK) theme throughout our website. As you browse through our web pages, this little icon will link you to corresponding DYK posts from the past.