Essays and writings on history, architecture, archaeology and other fields.
I’ve done an extensive amount of original research into one of Iowa City’s two Civil War training camps and want to share what I found with my readers in this essay. For ease of reading online, I have broken it up into pages, each with a topical theme. The table of contents below will help you navigate them. Please enjoy! Continue reading Camp Pope: A Civil War Training Camp at Iowa City
A New Map of Iowa: Accompanied with Notes by W. Barrows. Cincinnati: Engraved & published by Doolittle & Munson, 1845 … Continue reading Problems in Mapping Iowa’s Native Nations
Why is there a period or dot after the inscription on the Old Capitol reading IOWA. ? Continue reading I O W A. : An Unconventional Convention— Using a full stop at the end of a building inscription
Building on a previous article on this topic that was featured in Old Gold, this post gives a brief history and a lot of images on the topic of Iowa State University when it was an alternate name for the University of Iowa. Continue reading Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa
A Historical Gazetteer of Places Named Liberty in Iowa Iowa has a lot of place names that invoke the … Continue reading Our Liberties We Prize
The land that is the United States today was turned over to the US Government in a series of federal … Continue reading Native Peoples of Iowa as Seen in Native American Indian Land Cessions
Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, was home to one of the leaders of the Holstein breeders of the United States … Continue reading Thomas B. Wales, Jr. and The Brookbank Herd
Joeseph G. Durrant (1907–1985) was an architect active from the 1930s to 1980s the in the region of Iowa, Wisconsin, … Continue reading The Architectural Firms of Joseph George Durrant
From 1871 until 1979, a major industry in Mason City grew, then flourished, becoming at one time among the largest … Continue reading The Clay Brick and Tile Industry of Mason City, Iowa