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Title: 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
Description: "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.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

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: 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

Title: Looking southeast at Dewar, Iowa, Schmitt Brothers
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:16844

Title: Office of Herring Cottage, "The Swellest Little Hotel in Iowa", Belle Plaine, Iowa, Herring Hotel, The Herring, Hotel Herring, The Graham House Hotel
Description: Looking inside at the front office to Herring Cottage showing a table with a fan plugged into the ceiling light, front desk, and a piano in the parlor. The Herring Cottage, owned and operated by William P. Herring, ran a small auto bus from the hotel to the railroad depot to pick up guests and deliver them back to the train. The hotel was originally built in Colonial Revival style in 1900, designed by Cedar Rapids architect, Charles A. Dieman, and contracted by James Park of Belle Plaine. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13789

Title: Orphans home, Beloit, Iowa, Lutheran Children's Home
Description: The Lutheran Children's Home was established by Norwegian Lutherans in 1890. The farm consisted of 617 acres of land. The home was closed in 1945 and the children's home was moved to Ames, Iowa.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13735