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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N7Z_russell-gerdin_Shenandoah-IA.html
Founded Heartland Express
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N75_a-community-of-the-arts_Shenandoah-IA.html
Shenandoah residents have a long history in arts and entertainment.
The City Opera House imported traveling theatrical troupes, and the first Chautauqua met in 1886. Interested young men formed a Shakespeare Society and numerous women's clubs emp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N73_pete-kuyper_Shenandoah-IA.html
Founded Pella Windows
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N6M_frederick-l-maytag_Shenandoah-IA.html
Founded Maytag Company
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N6G_railroads-and-the-wabash-trace_Shenandoah-IA.html
The railroad was king, and southwest Iowa became part of the realm when the Burlington Railroad crossed the landscape from Mount Pleasant to Red Oak in 1867.
Chartered as a land grant railroad, the Burlington advertised and promoted the sale of s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N5V_theodore-roosevelt-speech-site_Shenandoah-IA.html
This marks the place
where as president
Theodore Roosevelt
addressed his fellow citizens
April 28th, 1903
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N5U_western-normal-college-bell_Shenandoah-IA.html
After Shenandoah's Western Normal College burned for the second time in 1917 (the first fire was in 1891 when Henry Field was a student there) this bell was taken from the ashes of that fire and put atop Henry Field's "seedhouse" at 407 Sycamore S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N50_civil-war-memorial_Clarinda-IA.html
To The Unknown Dead
1861 - 1865
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4H_first-school-house_Clarinda-IA.html
This stone marks the site of
the first school house in Clarinda
Built in 1854
and where Theodore Roosevelt spoke
April 23, 1903
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4G_carnegie-library_Clarinda-IA.html
The Clarinda Carnegie Library
Built in 1908
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior