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Title: Berry Craig
Description: Berry Craig, brother of George Craig. Berry Craig served in the 12th Colored Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. Portrait by Stonecypher's Portraits, Omaha, Nebraska.
Date Created: 1860
PID: grinnell:12144

Title: Congregational Church, 1860
Description: The original Grinnell, Iowa, Congregational Church built around 1860. It stood where the Stewart Library building now stands. To the right is Grinnell's first high school. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
PID: grinnell:6151

Title: Elon Raffety
Description: Portrait of Elon (Elonzo) Raffety, great grandfather of Howard Raffety of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1865
PID: grinnell:27205

Title: Elon Raffety Civil War Discharge Papers
Description: Elon Raffety's discharge papers from the 21st Regiment, Iowa Infantry, Captain Davis Greaves Company, dated July 15, 1865, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Elon Raffety moved to Poweshiek County in 1881, settling at Westfield, where he lived until 1893, when he moved to Grinnell.
Date Created: 1865
PID: grinnell:27204

Title: Eveline Graffort Raffety
Description: Portrait of Eveline Graffort Raffety, the wife of Elon Raffety and the great grandmother of Howard Raffety of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1860
PID: grinnell:27206

Title: First Methodist Church
Description: Black and white photograph showing oblique view of First Methodist Church in Grinnell on the corner of 5th Avenue and Park Street, Grinnell, Iowa. Written inscription on back reads "M.E. Church / Grinnell / Copy of June McNally picture."
Date Created: 1868
PID: grinnell:23236

Title: First Methodist Church in 1868
Description: Sepia photograph showing the First Methodist Church at the corner of 5th Avenue and Park Street in Grinnell. The road in front is extremely muddy. The photograph was donated to the museum by Maude Bortell Davis.
Date Created: 1868
PID: grinnell:26620

Title: First Train Arrives in Grinnell
Description: The first train arrives in Grinnell, Iowa, in June 1863 on the Mississippi and Missouri railroad line. The Mississippi and Missouri line later became the Rock Island Railroad. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. McNally photographs. Collection #1, Series #1-3.
Date Created: 1863
PID: grinnell:6163

Title: George F. Magoun
Description: Portrait of George F. Magoun (1821-1896). His side profile is shown, and he is wearing a suit and sporting a long beard. George Magoun served as President of Iowa College in Grinnell, Iowa from 1865-1884.
Date Created: 1870
PID: grinnell:23223

Title: Grace United Methodist Church
Description: Images of Grace United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, Iowa, and its predecessors. The first church was a simple frame church built in 1862. The next church was built in 1877, and the current church was built in 1914.
PID: grinnell:12861

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