All Places

Lot 8

My house

Story County Poor Farm and Knoll Cemetery

http://iastory.org/MilfordHist/browse.php?pagearg=51

Boone County Home Farm

Davis

Bonnie and Clyde Shootout

Site of the July 24, 1933 shootout with Bonnie and Clyde, and others. https://www.dallascounty...

Dallas County Poor Farm

Former site of the Dallas County Poor Farm, now Dallas County human services facilities. http:...

Interstate Planning?

Check the 1930 imagery vs today. It looks like someone drew the interstate on the 1930 maps?

Warren County Poor Farm

http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/warren/PoorFarm.htm

Lenon Mill

A woolen mill that was built in 1863, then switched to flour in 1877. Torn down in 1959.

Antle Cemetery

Earliest grave may be 1857.

Hopkins Grove Church

Appears on the 1875 map and still exists today!

Panther

Former location of the Panther Store. There is a historical marker nearby.

Capitol Drive-in Theater

This theater opened in 1952 and was demolished in the 1980s.

Former Canary Lake

Drained, possibly in the 1920s?

Drake Observatory

Built in 1921

Des Moines Golf and Country Club

Third site of the Des Moines Golf and Country Club, later Dowling High School. Built in the 1920s...

Site of first Des Moines Golf and Country Club

Beginnings of I235

Check the 1960s map.

Norwood #2 Coal Mine

Active around 1885