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This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Oelwein is a city in Fayette County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,920 at the time of the 2020 census , a decrease of 11.5% from the 2000 census. [ 2 ] The largest community in Fayette County, it is located at the junction of State Highways 3 and 150 .
Loren and Connie Norby started Norbys Farm Fleet in Manchester, Iowa in 1962. Since that time Norbys Farm Fleet has added 9 more stores to the following Northeast Iowa communities; Oelwein in 1966, Independence in 1968, West Union in 1970, Elkader in 1974, Decorah in 1987, Waverly in 1995, Grundy Center in 2003, Sumner in April 2005, Eldora in 2019 and in Lebanon, KY in December 2008 .
Gustav A. Oelwein (February 10, 1838 – December 19, 1913) was the founder of the city of Oelwein, Iowa in the United States. [1]Gustav A. Oelwein, after whose family the city of Oelwein was named, was a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and the only surviving child of Frederick and Cecelia (Schmidt) Oelwein, who had been natives of Saxony, Germany, and had emigrated to America in 1837, settling ...
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Oelwein, Iowa. Pages in category "People from Oelwein, Iowa" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Alfred Hanson was an Oelwein native who was engaged in farming before he moved back to town and became a banker. He had this house built in 1904. The two-story, frame Colonial Revival was designed by Harry E. Netcott of the Independence, Iowa architectural firm of Netcott & Donnan.
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Iowa provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Iowa, where 101 public libraries were built from 99 grants (totaling $1,495,706) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1892 to 1917. In addition, academic libraries were built at 7 institutions (totaling $210,000).
He later lived and worked in Oelwein, Iowa, at the main shops of the Chicago Great Western where there is a small park dedicated to him. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The pinnacle of his railroading career came at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , where he became works manager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company (Alco).