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Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
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"Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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1905
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grinnell:13379
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Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, Iowa
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Postcard with colorized photograph of Broad Street, West of Park, Grinnell, addressed to Ethel Longley (1884-9/19/1961).
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1921
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grinnell:26617
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Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce Receipt
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Receipt from Brooklyn Hatchery and Produce to Wallace Breniman for hens, roosters, and ducks. Dated Nov. 10, 1944.
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1944
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grinnell:27263
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C.&N.W. R.R. Yards after tornado, May 21, 1918, Boone, Iowa, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Yards
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Building remains after the May 21, 1918 tornado in Boone, Iowa. Six deaths were reported. Boone sustained the greatest monetary loss, probably $500,000, half of which was caused by the partial destruction of the Chicago & Northwestern's division shops. The storm area at Boone was confined to the extreme eastern edge of the city, about three blocks in width and nearly 10 blocks long. The storm was confined to the poorer section of the city and among those injured were railroad laborers living in box car bunk houses. 1919 postmark. Number 5.
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1919
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grinnell:13886
