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John A. Green. On March 17, 1868, then a lonely spot in the wilderness, now the site of Stone City, Iowa, John A. Green opened the Champion quarries.For nearly fifty years, the quarries produced steadily, amounting to more than 4.5 billion dollars in sales. 1896 records indicate 1,000 men were employed among the quarries, carving 160,000 loads of stone in a single year with a market value of 3 ...
August and Vera Luedtke Barn, sometimes the Fred and Vera Luedtke Barn, 1938 185th St., vicinity of Fairfield, Iowa (Architectural Department of the Louden Machinery Company) [1] McCafferty Run Farmstead, 17114 and 17226 OH 104, Chillicothe, Ohio (dairy barn north of the house attributed as a design of Louden Machinery Company), NRHP-listed [10 ...
Hurstville was an industrial complex and a company town. It was a major lime supplier in the state of Iowa for masonry building and bridge construction in the Midwest. [2] Alfred Hurst built the first kiln in 1871, and the other three followed soon after. The whole operation grew to include 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) and 50 employees. [3]
The Stone Barn is a historic building located in Guttenberg, Iowa, United States. This 1½-story stone structure is located along an alley and has been used for storage. There are indications that at one time it served the dual purpose of shop and residence. [2]
Location of Madison County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Madison County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The playground equipment was removed in the 1980s. In 2008, the park was renovated with landscaping, benches and other improvements, including "Quark," an 80-foot-tall, blue-painted steel piece by ...
Iowa farmer Arthur Luscombe (1922–2008) [6] founded Art's Way Manufacturing in 1956 to produce and sell a power take-off powered grinder-mixer he had developed on his farm near Dolliver. By 1959, the business was manufacturing OEM grinder-mixers for Massey Ferguson , Owatonna / Gehl and International Harvester .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Scott 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.