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Davenport, Iowa's annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival commemorates Bix Beiderbecke, a famous jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer who was born in Davenport in 1903. It is one of the largest jazz festivals in the United States. It is held on the weekend after the Bix 7 Road Race, another local event named for Beiderbecke.
Old Johnson County Courthouse, Iowa City, 1857-1899. After Iowa City was established by fiat as the new territorial capitol of Iowa, the county seat was removed there. [10] The second Johnson County Courthouse, the first in Iowa City, was built on Lot 8 Block 8 of the County Seat Addition to Iowa City in 1842 for $3,690. [9]
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Crestwood Secondary School is a public high school, located in Cresco, Howard County, in northeast Iowa. Crestwood is the high school for the Howard–Winneshiek Community School District. It serves students from the cities of Cresco, Chester, Lime Springs, Elma, and Ridgeway. Students from nearby Protivin can choose to attend this school as ...
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Fox and Sac tribes at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.
Eldridge is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 6,726 in the 2020 Census ; [ 2 ] Eldridge is a rural community and part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area. History
The south-eastern part of Iowa Territory became Iowa, the 29th state in the union, on December 28, 1846, [3] by which point 44 counties had been created. Counties continued to be created by the state government until 1857, when the last county, Humboldt County , was created. [ 4 ]
Marc Andreessen Cap Anson Tom Arnold. Dudley W. Adams, horticulturalist; John T. Adams, former Republican committee head; Julie Adams, actress; Trev Alberts, football ...