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Pierre-Jean De Smet's map of the Council Bluffs area, 1839The area labeled Caldwell's Camp was a Potawatomi village led by Sauganash, near the site of Kanesville, later named Council Bluffs. [13] De Smet wrote an early description of the Potawatomi settlement:
The 100 Block of West Broadway Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]
View from space of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Standard definitions for United States metropolitan areas were created in 1949; the first census which had metropolitan area data was the 1950 census. At that time, the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area comprised three counties: Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie in Iowa.
Council Bluffs was founded in the late 1840s as Kanesville by Mormons. When Brigham Young called all people of the faith outside of Utah to Salt Lake City in 1852, the community ceased to be majority Mormon. It was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. The buildings here are among the earliest extant commercial buildings in the city. [2]
Menards sold the Menard Building Division in 1994, racking up 36 years in the pole building industry. Menards of East Madison, Wisconsin, pictured in 2012 (closed and relocated to Sun Prairie in 2018) [6] Menards was founded as Menard Cashway Lumber. In the mid-1980s, the "Cashway Lumber" name was dropped and the business became simply known to ...
The district is primarily a residential area that is adjacent to the central business district to the west. Part of the district is in Jackson's Addition, which is the first addition to the original town of Council Bluffs. [2] It also sits along the base of the loess bluffs to the east. The neighborhood generally developed between 1855 and 1930.
The museum is housed inside a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad passenger depot that was also used by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific.The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot and also has been known as just Rock Island Depot. [2]
The state of Iowa is covered by five area codes. The map to the right is clickable, click on any of the area codes on the map to go to the area code for that region or use the text links below. The map to the right is clickable, click on any of the area codes on the map to go to the area code for that region or use the text links below.