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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MTB_veterans-memorial_Creston-IA.html
On fame's eternal camping ground
their silent tents are spread,
and glory guards, with solemn round,
the bivouac of the dead.
Erected May 1961
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MT6_graceland-cemetery_Creston-IA.html
The first cemetery located at Cherry and Ringgold Streets was organized by a Creston Cemetery Ass'n August 1, 1874
and abandoned in 1880.
Graceland Cemetery was opened in 1881. The first burial was February 2, 1881. All bodies and stones from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MS9_creston-freedom-rock-veterans-memorial_Creston-IA.html
POW's Remembered
H. Wayne Jackson · Ed Martin · Malcolm Amos · Marshall Johnson · Donavan Waller · Amos W. Ames · Donald Decker · Howard Lowe · Eldon Haynes · Mari…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MS4_phillips-66-gasoline-station_Creston-IA.html
Frank Phillips always had a warm spot in his heart for Creston. When the town observed its 75th anniversary in 1947, he remarked, "In my opinion there is no place like the home plate, which is Creston to me."
Frank & Jane Phillips visited Creston…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MNR_barber-shop_Creston-IA.html
[Excerpt from marker giving specific history]
A boy was often hired by the barber to give shoe shines while his customers waited. The shoe shine stand in the back of the barber shop was originally in the old Creston depot. It belonged to Arthur R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MNQ_log-cabin_Creston-IA.html
This log cabin was originally located northeast of Creston in Lincoln township. The cabin was built by the Emhoff family sometime after the land was purchased in 1855. The family started adding rooms as their 9 children were being born. This cabin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MNP_vietnam-veterans-memorial_Creston-IA.html
Dedicated to all
Vietnam Veterans
Thank You
for your service
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MNN_civil-war-memorial_Creston-IA.html
In memory of
Our Country's Defenders
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MNK_burlington-route-ne-10-waycar-13513_Creston-IA.html
In the time after the stock market crash of 1929, the Burlington decided to build a new set of steel waycars to assist in replacing older, wooden waycars in mainline service between Chicago and Denver. Between February and April 1930, 25 steel-bod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MN9_veterans-memorial_Creston-IA.html
Dedicated to all veterans
who served our nation at
the time of war and peace
[Dedicated] May 29, 2000