Entries Containing All of the Phrases «jefferson county» AND «iowa»

By Cosmos Mariner, September 20, 2025

Fairfield Freedom Rock Veterans Memorial (west side)

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1 ► Iowa, Jefferson County, Fairfield — Fairfield Freedom Rock Veterans Memorial — Honoring Jefferson County Veterans — Ray “Bubba” Sorensen II —

[south side] Major Mehitable Woods Pioneer Jefferson Co. & Civil War hero [west side] De Oppresso Liber [north side] 224th Engineers — That They May Fight 34th Infantry Division . . . — — Map (db m286893) HM

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2 ► Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines, East Village — Iowa Revolutionary War Monument —

Front Dedicated to soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution who are buried in IowaDecember 28, 1846 Iowa Our liberties we prize our rights we will maintainReverse George Perkins, N. and S. Carolina, Lee County William . . . — — Map (db m48277) HM

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3 ► Iowa, Jefferson County, Fairfield — McElhinny House — ca. 1850 — Iowa Historic Site —

This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m295793) HM

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4 ► Iowa, Jefferson County, Fairfield — First Company of Jefferson County Civil War Volunteers Drill Ground —

This was the drill ground of the first company of volunteers from Jefferson County, to respond to President Lincoln’s call for troops in 1861. Company E Second Iowa Infantry. — — Map (db m295792) HM

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5 ► Iowa, Boone County, Madrid — Cassel Corner Park —

In 1845 Peter Cassel and son C.J., with others of Kisa, Ostergotland, Sweden, founded New Sweden, IA, the first permanent Swedish-American settlement since the 17th century. Peter's February 1846 letter gave directions both to New Sweden and a . . . — — Map (db m287365) HM

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6 ► Iowa, Woodbury County, Sioux City — Sergeant Floyd Monument —

Sergeant Charles Floyd Sergeant Charles Floyd was one of the outstanding members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Born in Jefferson County, Kentucky sometime between the years 1780 and 1785, his father and uncles served with George Rogers . . . — — Map (db m177298) HM

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7 ► Alabama, Jefferson County, Mountain Brook — Wallace S. McElwain / Irondale Furnace Ruins —

Wallace S. McElwain (1832-1888)McElwain trained in a gun factory in New York and in a foundry in Ohio before moving to Holly Springs, MS, where he operated Jones, McElwain and Company Iron Foundry. He was well known in the Southeast for his . . . — — Map (db m26266) HM

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