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The park is on 1st Avenue between Cedar Rapids and Marion and includes a wooded cemetery, a natural limestone funeral home, a modern cremation center, a full-service reception facility, a full-service flower shop, and a chapel and mausoleum patterned after old world churches of England.
Cedar Rapids Milk Condensing Company: May 8, 2017 : 525 Valor Way, SW: Cedar Rapids: 25: Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building: Cedar Rapids Post Office and Public Building: November 10, 1982 : 305 2nd Ave., SE.
Robert Armstrong, who owned Armstrong's Department Store, donated land next to his home to St. Paul's Methodist Church.He said the church could, in turn, sell the lot and put the money into its building fund. Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris had moved to Cedar Rapids in 1957 and were having a difficult time finding someone to sell them a lot to build a new home for their growing family.
The Second and Third Avenue Historic District is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] At the time of its nomination it consisted of 186 resources, which included 176 contributing buildings, and 10 non-contributing buildings. [2]
Linn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.As of the 2020 census, the population was 230,299, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Cedar Rapids. [2]
The 36-year-old was drunk and high on cocaine with a blood alcohol content of .15 – nearly twice the legal limit – with cops recovering a bottle of tequila from his truck.
Larry N. Jordan (born 1952), publisher, journalist, and author, launched weekly Cedar Rapids Press-American as a 15-year-old student [1] Bert Kelly, jazz musician; Ashton Kutcher, actor, star of films and TV's Two and a Half Men; Ron Livingston, actor, Office Space, Band of Brothers, grew up in Marion, Iowa; Byron McKeeby, artist; Conger ...
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Meskwaki and Sauk peoples at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.