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2. John A. Green Estate - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Anamosa, Iowa - Wikipedia

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   Anamosa is home to the Anamosa State Penitentiary, formerly known as the Iowa Men's Reformatory, a medium/maximum security prison that is the largest in Iowa, housing over 1,200 male inmates. Anamosa State Penitentiary was home to infamous criminal John Wayne Gacy as well as Robert Hansen, the inspiration for the movie Frozen Ground. [15]

4. Stone City, Iowa - Wikipedia

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   Stone City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jones County, Iowa, United States. Stone City began as a company town for the workers of the local quarries. Stone City is known for its Anamosa Limestone quarries, historic limestone architecture, and 1930s art colony. Its population was 186 persons in the 2020 census.

5. Stone City Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The estate consists of the Green mansion, ice house, water tower, barn, and office building were each built of Anamosa Limestone quarried from John Green's own local business. During the summers of 1932 and 1933 the Green Estate became the location of Stone City Art Colony. [4] Construction began on St. Joseph's Church in 1913. The first mass ...

6. Category:Anamosa, Iowa - Wikipedia

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   National Motorcycle Museum (Anamosa, Iowa) S. Col. William T. and Elizabeth C. Shaw House This page was last edited on 17 May 2024, at 11:23 (UTC). ...

7. Anamosa Main Street Historic District - Wikipedia

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   Other than its architecture, what makes Anamosa standout is that unlike most other Iowa city's it was never properly platted. [2] Instead, the city grew organically from three commercial nodes. One was located in the flood plain of the Wapsipinicon River, and two others on the higher ground to the east. The two on the higher ground developed ...