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Title: County farm, Lucas County, Chariton, Iowa, Lucas County Farm
Description: The Lucas County Home was built in 1904 and torn down in 1986. County homes or poorhouses were tax-supported residential institutions to which people were required to go if they could not support themselves.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13736

Title: Creamery, Bridgewater, Iowa, Bridgewater Creamery Company
Description: Looking at a two-story brick building with smoke stack on left and child standing in front of the building. This is the first Bridgewater Creamery building built in the late 1800's.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14168

Title: Depot, Belle Plaine, Iowa, Chicago & North Western depot, Chicago and Northwestern Depot
Description: Looking southeast. The smaller building on the left is the baggage building and the larger building is the depot.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13891

Title: Depot, Chelsea, Iowa
Description: Locomotive sitting at the Chelsea Depot with passengers milling around. Grain elevator in background. The Northwestern Railroad leased the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad in 1869. A.A. McChesney was the first station agent when the railroad was built and James Hanify the first section boss.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14092

Title: Dr. Turner's Sanitarium [Rest Home], Colfax, Iowa, Turner Sanitarium and Rest Home, Turner, Lewis C.S., Turner, Alice B.S.
Description: Doctors Alice Turner and Lewis Turner were the proprietors of the sanitarium "where one is taught to get well by natural methods." The Rest Home had a spring on the property and was a convenient three blocks from the depot. In 1911, the Rest Home was sold to Dr. C. M. Porter and was operated in conjunction with the Porter Brother's General Hospital. The Rest Home was destroyed by fire in February 1928. Number 9700.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14588

Title: Dry goods store, Chapin, Iowa, Chapin Post Office, Meat market
Description: From left to right: Chapin Post Office, a meat market with a sign for Edison Records and dry goods store with sign selling shoes, rugs, suits, coats, etc., "Must be sold regardless of price within 30 days. You will find some real bargains". Chapin was platted in 1858 by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, who had previously founded Grinnell, Iowa. Josiah Bushnell Grinnell gave this new town the name Chapin, the maiden name of his wife. A post office was established in 1860 with H.H. Grinnell as the postmaster.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14107

Title: East Washington Street, Brighton, Iowa
Description: Looking east on Washington Street with what appears to be a monument located in the middle background. Brighton is the oldest town in Washington County, Iowa. Number 2369. No. 1.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14165

Title: East side Main Street, Atkins, Iowa, Atkins Post Office
Description: Looking northeast at a one-story wooden post office on the right established in 1902 in Atkins, Iowa.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14236

Title: Flat rocks, Bradgate, Iowa, Des Moines River
Description: Man fishing on the Des Moines River near Bradgate, Iowa. He appears to be standing on a large flat rock.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:14170