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Wigtown Parish Church was designed in the Gothic Revival style and completed in 1858. [37] Sacred Heart Catholic Church was designed in the Gothic Revival style and completed in 1879 to a design by the Edinburgh architect John George Garden Brown. [38] Wigtown Quaker Meeting House is as at Chapel Court, South Main Street. [39]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
In 2007, the Wigtown Festival Company became a registered charity. [7] In 2013, there were 7500 visitors to the festival, more than half of which were from outside Dumfries and Galloway. [8] A report commissioned by the Wigtown Festival Company in 2013 estimated that the festival contributed £2 million to the regional economy each year.
Dell Mapback #173, 1947 Crime map from Dell 173 Dell Mapback, The Sheik. Mapback is a term used by paperback collectors to refer to the earliest paperback books published by Dell Books, beginning in 1943. The books are known as mapbacks because the back cover of the book contains a map that illustrates the location of the action.
Parents and community members filed 100 challenges to books in Iowa schools between August 2020 and May 2023, according to data gleaned from a statewide records request.
The 25-by-52-square-foot space functioned as a library, and a garage was constructed for the bookmobile. Three months after the library opened, 4,000 books had been received and processed by Director Elizabeth Hage and her staff of three. The library continued to grow, registering 643 patrons by August of that year.
In the year since the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 496, restricting the types of books available to students in Iowa’s public schools, 3,399 books have been pulled from school shelves.
The rising of book bans across America. Iowa is not alone in banning books. In the fall of the 2023-24 school year, Florida had banned 3,135 books and Wisconsin 481, according to a PEN America report.