GARNAVILLO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Thanks to UNI student, Payton Marrs, visitors to Garnavillo’s historic Lodge Hall will know a little more when they leave about the fraternal societies that historically used the lodge hall for their meetings. Marrs, from Urbandale, a sophomore at UNI in Cedar Falls, chose researching the fraternal societies for the Garnavillo Historical Society as his fall semester […]
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St Joseph Parish Hall was the site of the Garnavillo Historical Society annual corporation meeting and appreciation supper held November 11. A light supper of sandwiches, chips and dessert was served to eighteen members and seven guests. Following the meal, Board member, David Beck presented a brief program on digitizing glass negatives from the past.
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Concrete design remnants of the 1922 Garnavillo School building, demolished in 2015, found their way to the Garnavillo Prairie Winds Garden this summer through the efforts of the late Wayne Bacon, his wife Becky, Roger Balk, Chuck Lawson, Hank Werger and Carol DeSotel. After the merger of the Garnavillo and Guttenberg school into the Clayton
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Clayton Ridge 5th graders, with their teachers, Jill Stannard and Sara Lawrence, took a trip to the Garnavillo City Park shelter, May 24, to visit with “Althea Sherman” of National, Iowa, (a.k.a. Carol DeSotel, member of the Garnavillo Historical Society). “Althea,” who was born in 1843, shared with the students pictures and some of the
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UNI student Jackson Miller, of Waterloo, recently completed a service project for the Garnavillo Historical Society. Jackson, who is enrolled in the UNI History Department’s Public History Field Experience course (a service learning program for history majors) chose the Garnavillo Museum’s “Photography Exhibit Research” as his 2021 spring semester project. Professor Barbara Cutter, associate professor
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This year (2021) marks the 175th anniversary of the naming of our town as Garnavillo. It was originally named Jacksonville in 1843, but the residents wanted a new name because the postal service kept sending their mail to Jacksonville, Illinois instead of Jacksonville, Iowa. Judge Samuel Murdock, an early resident, was instrumental in selecting the
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The Garnavillo Museum’s exhibit of Althea Sherman paintings will double this year. Thanks to work done by local volunteers and UNI student Brenna Hildebrand last spring (2020), works of Sherman’s that have been stored in boxes at the museum have been inventoried. 16 paintings and 4 sketches were selected for matting and framing to add
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As everyone will attest to – 2020 was an unusual year. The Garnavillo Museum did not open for visitors in 2020 due to the pandemic which also delayed completion of some projects. But projects did finally get completed and more are planned. The log cabin will start off 2021 with a new log on the
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For 2021, the Garnavillo Historical Society decided to feature area churches in their annual calendar. Pictures of churches (or congregation meeting places) in Garnavillo, Clayton, National and Ceres, along with a short historical tidbit are featured. The 2021 calendars are now available, for a $10.00 donation to the Garnavillo Historical Society, at the following locations:
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People walking through Prairie Winds Garden on West Center Street in Garnavillo think I’m just a colorful little building, but they have no idea of my history. I started life as a four-hole outdoor toilet in 1892 on a farm west of National. Through the years I was visited by young and old all hours
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