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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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Description
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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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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:13379
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Creamery, Bridgewater, Iowa, Bridgewater Creamery Company
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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.
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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:14168
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East Washington Street, Brighton, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:14165
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High school, Baldwin, Iowa
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Description
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Two-story brick high school building with bell tower. Built in 1897.
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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:14218
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High school, Baldwin, Iowa
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Description
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Two-story brick high school building with bell tower. Built in 1897.
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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:14217
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Title
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Looking southeast at Dewar, Iowa, Schmitt Brothers
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Description
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Looking southeast at the town of Delmar, Iowa, with the Schmitt Brothers hardware and implement store in the background. Frank K. Schmitt opened the business in fall of 1900 with his cousin, Frank Fritz. After Fritz's death, Frank J.'s brother Edward entered the partnership in 1902.
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Date Created
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1905
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PID
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grinnell:16844