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Did you know there were multiple fires on Main Street Garnavillo destroying historic businesses? What buildings are standing that date back to 1860 or further? Where was the Stetter and Tangeman Photograph Gallery located? Where was Garnavillo’s ballroom? Find the answers to these questions and learn more about the town of Garnavillo, Iowa in the […]

The late start to winter benefited the Garnavillo Historical Society’s tuckpointing project at the Clefisch Law Office, 108 S. Main Street, Garnavillo.  Kuempel Masonry, Guttenberg was contracted for the project and was nearly done before cold temperatures set in necessitating a plastic enclosure for working. J.O. Crosby and Alonzo Brown started building their ground level

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

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. 

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

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

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