Early days in Madison
County, IA, are recalled through colorful tales and factual data
in this brand new 60-page booklet, an reprint
of the hard-to-find booklet, Scenic Madison County, Iowa
, compiled by Lloyd H. Smith in 1961, plus an excerpt from the rare
1938 WPA book, Iowa, a Guide to the Hawkeye State.
This 8.5" x 11"spiral
bound booklet, titled
Madison County,
Iowa, USA,
is one of over 700 booklets
we have reproduced, all preserving the writings of early historians.
We've printed it on 60# paper with the 3-color front cover protected
with a vinyl sheet.
This information in this booklet, written at
least thirty years before Robert James Waller wrote his famous
love story, offers a broad background for the location
of The Bridges of Madison County.
Subjects
include: Covered
Bridge Capital, Home of Delicious Apple; the county courthouse;
making lime and bricks; Winterset City Park; History of Monumental
Park; Pammel State Park; Old Mills; Rattlesnakes; Cemateries; and
other bits of history and
trivia.
Illustrations
include: the 1850 courthouse; the 1868 courthouse; and the
1876 courthouse; the first stone house, built in 1854 by Caleb Clark;
an 1861 stone house; an example of how old stone masons turned corners;
Ross Rogers atop a stone tower memorial; Roseman Bridge and 6 other
covered bridges; Old North River Stone Schoolhouse from 1874; the
Clark Tower, a shelter house and a log cabin in Winterset City
Park; Monumental Park; an old millwheel, a former water tunnel,
shelter house and Old Backbone Mill in Pammel State Park; Griswold
Mill on Grand River; and several pictures.
The WPA excerpt concerns Winterset and
Pammel State Park.
Wouldn't this
make a unique gift?
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