Fort Des Moines No. 2
Established May 1843 — Evacuated March 1846
This cabin is a memorial to the military outpost, Fort Des Moines No. 2, occupied by Company I, First Regiment U. S. Dragoons and Company F First U. S. Infantry. The . . . — — Map (db m84100) HM
People lived and worked here. They shopped and prayed here. They gathered here to celebrate life. Welcome to what was Iowa's most vibrant Black community — the historic Center Street neighborhood, stretching from 15th Street to Keosauqua Way. . . . — — Map (db m235901) HM
Born in Philadelphia, Ida B. Wise Smith rose to national prominence as a Iowan dedicated to the causes of women's suffrage, prohibition, and children's rights. Mrs. Smith pressed her causes in the political arena, achieving the enactment of a state . . . — — Map (db m235889) HM
This church was built by Thomas Mitchell. Thomas Mitchell was born in New Hampshire in 1816. he came to Iowa Territory in 1840, and in 1844 became the first white settler of Polk County. He built cabins and later inns to feed and shelter the . . . — — Map (db m44833) HM
The Josiah & Mahala Hopkins House (1848) served the community as a post office and early stagecoach stop on the route from Fort Des Moines to Fort Dodge. It was dubbed 20-Mile House for its location 20 miles from Fort Des Moines. Locally, the . . . — — Map (db m285152) HM
At this site where Katz Drug Store once stood, on July 7, 1948, at 3:45 p.m., Edna Griffin, her infant daughter Phyllis, John Bibbs, and Leonard Hudson entered the store and ordered ice cream at the lunch counter. The manager refused to serve . . . — — Map (db m292945) HM
In the year 2000, the Ankeny Area Historical Society Board of Directors recognized the need for more space. The Marts/Neveln/McCleary house that was moved in 1995 was full of many exhibits, and artifacts were in storage.
During the . . . — — Map (db m316086) HM
Project Partners
St. Paul's is grateful to many partners for their support of the Cathedral Rain Garden and Labyrinth. Special thank-yous go to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, The Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, Trees Forever, . . . — — Map (db m289429) HM
Ralph was a slave from Missouri. In 1834, he bought his freedom from his owner, a man named J. Montgomery, so he could come to Iowa to work in the lead mines near Dubuque. The cost of his independence was to be $550, plus interest. But after five . . . — — Map (db m236242) HM
This millstone is the last remnant of the flour mill that operated on the river bank a half-mile to the south. Power was provided by the stream that now tumbles down a rocky slope on the north boundary of the Wisconsin Interstate Park.
Pieces . . . — — Map (db m216749) HM
Center:
Erected in grateful remembrance of the men from Polk County, Iowa, who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War that government by the people shall be maintained and that liberty shall not perish from the earth.
(names . . . — — Map (db m316267) WM
Through the centuries, the area that is today's Gray's Lake was part of the ever-changing course of the Raccoon River. Left behind after one such change in the Raccoon was an oxbow that would become Gray's Lake Park. Residents of Des Moines in . . . — — Map (db m236552) HM
Richland Township
Site of National Corn Husking Contest in 1935.
4 Blocks West - - -
Cobb Farms and L.K. Mitchell and Family Hosts.
Lawrence Pitzer of Fountain County Represented Indiana and later became National Champion in 1939. . . . — — Map (db m3405) HM
(Seven panels dealing with topics related to the Applegate Trail are found at this kiosk:)
In 1846, Jesse Applegate and fourteen others from near Dallas, Oregon, established a trail south from the Willamette Valley and east to Fort . . . — — Map (db m114352) HM
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