Gone... But Not Forgotten
Gone... But Not Forgotten

Author: Leigh Michaels

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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Businesses, restaurants, hangouts, entertainment, stores, events and people -- memories of a bustling Iowa city in the 20th century. Memories which are now gone... but are never to be forgotten.

Ottumwa
Ottumwa

Author: Michael W. Lemberger

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780738541068

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Long one of Iowa's most important industrial cities, Ottumwa was established on the banks of the Des Moines River in 1843. The river was both a blessing, providing transportation as well as ice for early meatpacking plants, and a curse, inundating the city with periodic floods until it was tamed in the latter half of the 20th century. This collection of vintage photographs highlights the city's industries and laboring people, the river's role in the shaping of the community, and Ottumwa's unique place in history as the location of the Iowa Coal Palace and Industrial Exhibits of 1890 and 1891 and the Ottumwa Naval Air Station during the World War II era.