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Washington was founded in 1839 as the county seat of the newly established Washington County. In 1854 it became the home of a United Presbyterian College, which was dissolved in 1864. As of 2014, the town has celebrated its 175th anniversary, only 5 years behind the oldest city in Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa .
Editorial, advertising and business functions of the four weekly newspapers, the oldest title of which dates to 1856, are based in Washington; editorial content had been overseen by the Register under previous ownership. [11] The four newspapers cover Iowa, Poweshiek and Benton counties, and areas of western Johnson and northern Keokuk counties.
The Washington Downtown Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [ 1 ]
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.
Iowa City Press-Citizen – Iowa City; Keokuk Daily Gate City – Keokuk; Le Mars Daily Sentinel – Le Mars; Marshalltown Times Republican – Marshalltown; The Messenger – Fort Dodge; Southeast Iowa Union – Mount Pleasant (was formerly the Fairfield Daily Ledger, Mount Pleasant News and the Washington Evening Journal) Muscatine Journal ...
A gaggle of fledgling partisan newspapers in the mid-1800s planted roots for what in the 20th century would mature into the Register, the state’s dominant news source. The Iowa Star, a ...
The sweet smile of an elderly Kathryn Bartosky mixing donuts in her kitchen greets you on page 131 of Tom Schulein’s just-released book covering 185 years of Iowa City history.
Strauss, Dafnah. "Ideological closure in newspaper political language during the US 1872 election campaign." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 15.2 (2014): 255–291. DOI: 10.1075/jhp.15.2.06str online, three major Iowa newspapers; Stromquist, Shelton. Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century (U Of Iowa ...