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The store's original location was a 1,000-square-foot (93 m 2) space on South Linn Street.In 1982, Harris moved the store to an 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2) space on South Dubuque Street, which had been a coffee house that had in the 1930s hosted a local literary society and its guests, who included Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Sherwood Anderson, E. E. Cummings and others. [1]
The Iowa-based retailers Brintnall's of Marshalltown and Davidson's of Sioux City were acquired in 1948 and Yetters of Iowa City was acquired in 1949. [6] Younkers began expanding outside of Iowa during the 1950s and opened its first shopping mall store in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1955. (It acquired another Omaha department store, Kilpatrick's, in ...
The Casey's General Store 150 was a NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and NASCAR K&N Pro Series West combined race held annually at Iowa Speedway. From 2007 to 2010, it was a 175-mile (282 km) race. In 2010, it was a 153.1-mile (246.4 km) race. From 2012, it was reduced to 131.2 miles (211.1 km).
Clinton, Iowa: 1959–present Dubuque Packers: Mississippi–Ohio Valley League (1954–1955); ML (1956–1967 and 1974–1976) Dubuque, Iowa: 1956–1976 Des Moines Bruins: Western League (1947–1958) Des Moines, Iowa: 1947–1958 Des Moines Demons: Three-I League (1959–1961) Des Moines, Iowa 1927–1960 Iowa City Gold Sox: Semi ...
The railroad also had their shops (non-extant) to the southwest of the district in an angle formed by the junction. The linear historic district is composed of most of three blocks of Fifth Street and parts of two cross streets. The buildings are largely one and two stories in height, with one three-story structure.
The River Valley Conference (RVC) is a high school athletic conference whose members are located in smaller communities in eastern Iowa. The conference roughly spans from Johnson County, Iowa to the southwest, to Dubuque County, Iowa to the northeast. The RVC was founded in the 2013-2014 school year. [1]
Silver City is located at (41.112051, -95.638057 Silver Creek, the town's namesake and a tributary of the West Nishnabotna River , parallels the eastern city limits. The Wabash Trace Nature Trail, a former rail line, enters the town from the west and runs southeasterly through town, making a southerly turn before meeting Silver Creek.
The Story City Park is situated along the banks of the Skunk River, one of Iowa's recreational water trails. It is the starting point for the Skunk River Canoe Trail. City Park is home to a historic swinging bridge, constructed in 1936 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration program; it was damaged by ice in March ...