Brent Hegstrom
The first and pioneer railroad through the Perry area, the Des Moines and Fort Dodge, operated until about April 1887, when it was taken...
More than $50,000 worth of property went up in flames and smoke when the Clement block at Second Street and Willis Avenue burned to...
In the small town of Granger, coal mining was the number one industry in the area in the 1930 but because it was seasonal...
The body of a man presumed to be John Bodenberger, a farmer living just south of Perry, was found Sept. 9, 1954, in a...
"The Birth of a Nation" was released Feb. 8, 1915. In the course of three hours, D. W. Griffith's controversial epic film about the...
Celeste Council, Perry's venerable last popcorn lady, was born Aug. 17, 1882, near Perry, the daughter of Hannah and Bartlett White. Bartlett's father was...
On Sept. 29, 1949, a Des Moines man by the name of J. C. Wier of Center Street was one of about 50 people...
In 1881 the first Milwaukee engine, No. 389, arrived in Perry, coming over the Chicago Northwestern to Grand Junction. Perry already had a north-south...
Sometime about 1856, Union Township was organized. The settlers wanted to call it
Buffalo Grove, but Judge John Montgomery of Boonesboro gave it the name...
Dallas Township was first surveyed from 1849 to 1851, when there were just two families living in the area that would become Dawson. One...
