Cedar River through time from steamboats to bridges
The Cedar River story traces its changing role from an Indian and trader route to a rail powered corridor. It covers the Blackhawk steamboat era, navigability limits above Wapello, ferries and bridge construction, quarry work for piers, and the shift from water power to electric power as mills declined.
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Iowa
Levi Lewis
Mississippi
Lewis Bottoms
Palo
Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Blackhawk
Waterloo
Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska
Memphis
Wapello
Cedar Valley
Indian Creek Railroad Open House Shows Model Lines in Cedar Rapids
The Indian Creek Model Railroad Club with 18 members showcases HO scale lines the Indian Creek Railroad Davenport and Northeastern and Aspen and Ellsworth in Cedar Rapids. An open house Sunday Nov 18 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Second Ave SE features running trains, layouts, and member recruitment. Obvious sponsors are The Modeler and Box-Kar Hobbies.
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Indian Creek Railroad
Aspen
Ellsworth
Davenport
Northeastern
Cedar Rapids
Second Ave
Indian Creek
Aspen and
Second Avenue SE
Hall
Modeler
Third Ave
Seventh Ave
Marion
Diane Karr
LeRoy
Karr
Dick Schultz
Ely
Schultz
Anamosa
Clarence
Karl
Mark Dean
Fifth Ave
Jim Furman
B Ave. NE
Steve Brubaker
Harbert Ave. NW
Indian Creek Railroad Club
Beginning skiers clinic set by East Iowa Ski Club
East Iowa Ski Club will hold its annual beginning skiers clinic at Squaw Creek Lodge at 1 p m Sunday November 18 Linda Bales club official says topics include exercise clothing equipment safety what's needed and the cost for the first day on the slopes The event is open to all especially first time skiers Questions will be answered 10 years ago U S troop strength in Vietnam was at a 21 month low.
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East Iowa
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Lowa
Towa
Waterloo Municipal
Highway 20
William Sturgis
Cedar Falls
Dempsey Overman
Low State Historical Department
Division of State Historical Society
Mary K. Mather
Cedar River
Jim Mayer
LeRoy Karr
Gazette
Tom Merryman
Club
U.S
Vietnam
RCA Color TV
RCA ColorTrak
RCA
Colortrak
ChanneLock
Darrel’s TV
7Th Ave
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