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Stanwood is located at (41.891907, -91.150694 [ 6 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.72 square miles (1.86 km 2 ), all land.
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Des Moines Register, literally born in a log cabin, became Iowa's leading newspaper. See a timeline, 50 photos from Register and Iowa history.
The SHSI currently publishes The Annals of Iowa, edited by Dr. Andrew Klumpp. [5] [6] In the past it published the Iowa Heritage Illustrated, Goldfinch, the Iowa Journal of History and Politics, and the Iowa Historical Record. [7] It also currently produces an e-newsletter, the Iowa Historian. [7]
Future First Lady Lou Henry was born in Waterloo in 1874 and spent her first 10 years there and Shell Rock. In 1884, her parents, Florence Ida Weed Henry and Charles Delano Henry, moved the family ...
Charles Aldrich and Matilda Olivia Williams Aldrich in 1851. Charles Aldrich (1828-1908) was an American journalist, bureaucrat, collector, and curator from Iowa.Known colloquially as the first “conservator of Iowa history,” Aldrich founded a number of important state collections including what is now known as the State Historical Museum of Iowa.
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The building was purchased in 2000 by the Stanwood Area Historical Society when it was found to be in a heavily deteriorated state. [2] [3] With its rehabilitation the hall was transformed into the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, named in honor of Floyd L. Norgaard, who spent his childhood in Stanwood and returned to live there in retirement. [4]