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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1971

Page

4

Cedar Rapids 1838 to 1925 A Bold Growth Tale

Cedar Rapids grew from a single 1838 log cabin to a bustling river city by 1925. The piece covers early leaders like I N Whitlam and George Greene, street evolutions, dam and mills, rail and steamboat links, notable residents, social life, opera houses, tornado in 1876, saloons, doctors, and the founding of St Luke's Hospital through community effort and key benefactors.

Red Cedar River Cedar Rapids I. N. Whitlam Linn Street First Avenue Lowa Avenue Second Avenue Eagle Street Third Avenue Park Avenue First Street Commercial Street Washington Street Third Street Adams Street Fourth Street Jefferson Street Greene Weare Bever Carpenter Higley Smith Dows Hamilton Averill Brown Mansfield Snouffer Hubbard Hall Shaver Douglas Iowa George Greene St. Louis Mississippi Nettie Mann May’s Island Norma Thomas Hentges Charles A. Laurance Pueblo Colo Laurance Dubuque Iowa City Marengo Des Moines Chicago B Avenue Chicago and North Western Railway Diana Chesapeake Fulton de Kalb Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Rock Island Ellis Boulevard U.S. Grant North Western McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Taft Jenny Boshan Second Street A. H. Taylor D. McClenahan J. H. Camburn John F. Ely Henry Ristine J. H. Smith J. M. May Geo. P. Carpenter J. W. Edes S. C. Koontz J. R. Kinney A. K. Minor E. Ebi Linn County Medical Society General Winslow Little Hospital Samuel Ringgold Ringgold

Cedar Rapids Horse Racing History and a Fatal Boiler Accident

The piece recalls Cedar Rapids horse racing on seasonal tracks from the dam to Ellis Park and Central Park, noting mixed venues and a combined park. It recounts a July 3, 1876 boating tragedy when the Carrie Wallace boiler burst at Brock's landing, killing one and injuring several, with Willis Vance reporting the accident.

Cedar Rapids Ellis Park Packing House Central Park Milwaukee Railroad Fourteenth Street St. Paul’s United Methodist Church Carrie Wallace Brock’s Landing Willis Vance Lady Franklin

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