White Palace of the West Anamosa Penitentiary Museum Opens
The Anamosa State Penitentiary known as the White Palace of the West hosts a public museum behind the prison. Open Memorial Day weekend to the first Saturday in October, it showcases 140 years of prison history and exhibits from the 1873 construction era including a gin pole crane and pulley system.
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Anamosa Penitentiary Museum Highlights Prison History
The Anamosa State Penitentiary Museum opens Friday to Monday noon to 4 p.m. Memorial Day weekend through early October with admission 3 dollars. Exhibits feature John Wayne Gacy Jr., inmate art, contraband items, a life‑sentence inmate built scale model, and a replica cell with restraint displays.
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River levels rise across eastern Iowa communities
Water data show Lone Tree 15 feet and Columbus Jet 19 rising, with Wapello at 14.56 rising, while Independence 4.76 and Anamosa 5.20 rise on the Wapsipinicon River, indicating escalating river levels in the region.
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Lone Tree
Columbus Jet
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Wapsipinicon River
Independence
Anamosa
Cedar River
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Conesville
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Marshalltown
Belle Plaine
Marengo
Iowa City
Mississippi River
la Crosse
Lansing
McGregor
Guttenberg
Dubuque
Bellevue
Coralville Pool
Quad Cities
Muscatine
Weather highlights and trivia by Britley Ritz
Meteorologist Britley Ritz surveys historical weather events and notable trivia in a recap style brief. The feature blends past storms, temperature records, and seasonal patterns with a focus on memorable meteorological moments and their lasting impact.
Weather summary of multiple U.S. cities and conditions
The data lists daily temperatures and conditions for a wide set of cities including Atlanta Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Portland Raleigh/Durham St Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Sioux Falls Tampa Washington D C with varied skies signals from sunny partly cloudy cloudy showers thunderstorms rain and snow flurries for the period shown.
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This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!