The Centennial Building was completed in the same year as Custer's Last Stand and was named after our nation's 100th birthday.
From 1918-1955 the building was occupied as a pool hall & cigar store and it is believed that the tobacco was hung . . . — — Map (db m236345) HM
• Built in 1909 and modeled after the Des Moines Fire Station, the Oskaloosa Fire Station originally stood two stories high.
• The first floor of the 1909 structure housed horses, wagons, and steam engines, while the second floor provided hay . . . — — Map (db m236350) HM
Look to the top. What do you see? IMB Soc. stands for the Iowa Masons' Benevolent Society.
This was an Oskaloosa based life insurance company organized in 1876. It targeted the Masonic fraternal community as a group. In those days, . . . — — Map (db m236346) HM
• The Mahaska County Courthouse was erected on this site in 1845. The building was a two story wooden structure and was used not only as a courthouse but also for all manner of "frontier frolics" including church services, operas, and in 1849 a . . . — — Map (db m236335) HM
The limestone blocks and gargoyles which form the base of this column were originally part of the jail that was built in 1901, and demolished in July of 1996. The current center opened on December 12, 1996. — — Map (db m237693) HM
Trolley Map!
Oskaloosa & Buxton Electric Car #14
circa November 1906
High Avenue West and B Avenue
Oskaloosa & Buxton Electric Car #14
circa November 1906
This was the biggest trolley to run on this line to Beacon! . . . — — Map (db m237685) HM
Mahaska for whom Mahaska County was named was a chief of the Ioway Tribe of Indians he lived at peace with the white man and was slain by an Indian in 1834 at the age of fifty years in what is now Cass County Iowa
The Ioways a powerful tribe . . . — — Map (db m236011) HM
• The Building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $132,158. It was dedicated by John F. Lacey, Oskaloosa Congressman and founder of the National Parks System.
• In 1916, the Courthouse was painted gray at a cost of $1,009. Years later the . . . — — Map (db m236349) HM
This property is listed in
the National Register of Historic Places
Iowa State Historical Department
Division of Historic Preservation — — Map (db m237691) HM
•Establishment of our public library was made official on March 7, 1899 with a voter approved levy tax as a result of the work of the YMCA and the Oskaloosa Women's Club. It officially opened its doors to the public on Monday Sept 8th 1903. . . . — — Map (db m236338) HM
This Spanish torpedo was taken out of the harbor of Guatanamo in 1899, by Lieutenant Commander Frank F. Fletcher, U.S. Navy and by him, presented to Oskaloosa, the city of his birth as a souvenir of the Spanish-American War. It is supposed to be of . . . — — Map (db m237689) HM
Dr. Warren Nugent, chief railroad surgeon with Iowa Central Railroad, built the building that housed the J.H. Pickett Drugstore, in 1892. He spared no expense in the richly detailed building both inside and out.
• The Knights of Pythias, one of Oskaloosa's most prominent lodge organizations, located its ballroom & membership quarters in the third story of the Malcolm Building in 1912. Over 5,000 people attended its grand opening.
• In 1896 this . . . — — Map (db m236344) HM
