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Albia experienced an economic boom between 1900 and 1920 when Consolidation Coal Company relocated their operations to Buxton. They joined other coal mines that were already operating in Monroe County. During this time period the county led all Iowa counties in coal production. [2] It peaked during World War I and then declined.
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People with Mexican heritage would not have a major presence in Iowa until about 1920. In 1900, the federal census recorded only 29 people with Mexican nativity. The number increased to 620 in ...
Norwegian immigration to Iowa began in 1840 [52] with settlement at Sugar Creek [90] in southeastern Iowa, and continued with immigration to northern Iowa in the late 1840s. [91] The Sugar Creek colony in Lee County was the result of a failed Missouri colony, and has its origins in the second Norwegian colony in the United States, that of Fox ...
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In the 1920s, the U.S. bus transportation industry was in its formative years, and bus companies were small businesses, often family owned and usually started by men. [2] Schultz decided she wanted to start her own bus company in Iowa, and as banks of the day rarely made business loans to women, she raised crucial capital from a building ...
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