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  2. Category:People from Clear Lake, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Clear Lake, Iowa. Pages in category "People from Clear Lake, Iowa" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.

  3. The Day the Music Died - Wikipedia

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    On Monday, February 2, the tour arrived in Clear Lake, west of Mason City, Iowa, having driven 350 miles (560 km) from the previous day's concert in Green Bay. Clear Lake had not been a scheduled stop; tour promoters hoped to fill the open date and called Carroll Anderson, the manager of the local Surf Ballroom, and offered him the show ...

  4. Clear Lake Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Iowa: County: Cerro Gordo: Area • Total. 13.03 sq mi (33.74 km 2) ... Clear Lake Township is one of sixteen townships in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States.

  5. Mirror Reporter - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Rosecrans soon sold the office to parties in Belmond. Mr. Frost then purchased a new outfit and for 6 or 7 years was the editor. In 1879 he sold to Mr. Bush who changed the name to the Clear Lake Mirror. In April 1896, J.C. Davenport established another weekly paper here which he called the Clear Lake Reporter.

  6. List of people executed in Iowa - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Iowa from 1834 to 1963. Capital punishment was abolished in Iowa in 1965. [1] 45 people were executed in Iowa from 1834-1963, all by hanging. [2] In 2020, a man from Iowa, Dustin Lee Honken, was federally executed at USP Terre Haute by lethal injection. [3]

  7. Surf Ballroom - Wikipedia

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    The Surf Ballroom (also called the Surf) is a Historic Rock and Roll Landmark at 460 North Shore Drive, Clear Lake, Iowa, United States.The Surf is closely associated with the event known colloquially as "The Day the Music Died" – early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P.

  8. Clear Lake (Iowa) - Wikipedia

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    Waterfront walkway in Clear Lake. Clear Lake is a natural spring fed body of water located in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, near Clear Lake, Iowa. It is approximately 3,684 acres (15 km 2) in size. It is a popular fishing destination, with walleye, yellow bass and channel catfish. People from Des Moines and Minneapolis–Saint Paul have had homes ...

  9. 1993 Iowa murders - Wikipedia

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    Honken grew up in Britt, Iowa. [3] His father, Jim Honken, was an alcoholic schemer who was allegedly neglectful. Honken reported in his pre-sentence investigation that his father struck him numerous times during his childhood, although he denied that his father was physically abusive and maintained that the emotional turmoil in his early life mostly stemmed from his father's alcoholism.