Nestled in the southwest corner of the Iowa’s portion of the unglaciated Driftless Area, the countryside around Oelwein is home to a community of Old Order Amish, and the Oelwein Chamber offers ...

John Hopwood Mickey was born in 1845 on a farm near Burlington, Iowa. Mickey attended school ... of the university’s first, uncompleted building, the cornerstone of which had been laid by ...

The beauty of Iowa’s Mississippi River counties is revelatory, from the imposing brick buildings of riverfront ... and the Toolesboro Mounds National Historic Landmark in Wapello, Louisa County ...

In the morning when the school bus crossed the tracks into Grover, we saw where people were tearing down buildings for ...

In the farm town where Cooper DeJean drew up football plays in elementary school and taught classmates to run them at recess, ...

Pella may be famous as the Dutch-est city in Iowa, a state that was a historic destination for ... Oelwein was founded in 1872 by the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad.

The Johnson County Historic Poor Farm has been designated a heritage area by Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, ...

Preservation Iowa has added two properties to its list of most-endangered historic buildings. Where are they and can they be ...