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Hamilton County History Articles
written by Martin “Ed” Nass
by permission of Ed Nass for use on the Hamilton County IAGenWeb site.

Transcribed by Janelle Martin.

Daily Freeman-Journal, October 29, 1999

Clark R. Mollenhoff - Pulitzer Prize Winner

MacKinlay Kantor - Pulitzer Prize Winner

Shiloh - Drummer Boy

Walter C. Willson - Pioneer Builder of Webster City

Looking Over My Shoulder - A Look Back at the 20th Century


Daily Freeman-Journal, 2000

January 21, 2000 -

Buttermaking was prized skill in bygone days

February 24, 2000 -

Lives lost for a courthouse that never was

March 30, 2000 -

Recalling the day the iron horse first crossed the 'Classic Boone'

April 28, 2000 -

Hello Central, give me the meat market

May 26, 2000 -

Civil War Soldiers remembered

July 7, 2000 -

Stagecoaches cross our county

July 31, 2000 -

Callanan - A town forgotten

September 1, 2000 -

Webster City Junior College

September 29, 2000 -

Hook's Point - First Settlement - First Murder

November 2, 2000 -

Shoetown

November 30, 2000 -

McLaughlin's Ford and the Oak Glen community

January 2, 2001 -

Briggs Woods, Our First County Park

January 30, 2001 -

Webster City's First Hospital

February 27, 2001 -

Hope Hollow, A Beginning

April 6, 2001 -

Crooked Creek RR and Coal Company

May 18, 2001 -

Webster City's Seven Cemeteries

June 29, 2001 -

Rosendale, A Thriving Village That Died

July 27, 2001 -

Rosenkrans, The Man and His Park

October 1, 2001 -

From a Skunk to a Rose

November 9, 2001 -

First Webster City Schools

December 24, 2001 -

Brown Spring Ice Skate Company

January 25, 2002 -

Spirit Lake Relief Expedition

February 22, 2002 -

The Need for a Cold Drink of Water

March 26, 2002 -

Bach Grove

April 30, 2002 -

Seneca Street - First Business District

May 31, 2002 -

Mulberry Center

June 28, 2002 -

The Freeman-Journal

August 10, 2002 -

How the Boone River Got Its Name

August 31, 2002 -

Saratoga, a "Paper" Town

September 27, 2002 -

Racing in Webster City

November 4, 2002 -

Jewell Lutheran College

December 6, 2002 -

The Webster City Lyceum

December 31, 2002 -

Tunnel Mill

January 31, 2003 -

Tiling Webster City

February 28, 2003 -

Johnny Lewis Race Track

April 3, 2003 -

The Armory and Opera House

April 28, 2003 -

Hamilton Hospital - A Century of Service

May 30, 2003 -

The Church on the Prairie

August 29, 2003 -

The Nazarene Church

November 7, 2003 -

When Our Highways Had Names

February 9, 2004 -

The Monarch Company

April 1, 2004 -

Two Business College in Webster City History

August 10, 2004 -

Webster City Creamery

September 24, 2004 -

Kendall Young, The Man and His Library

August 7, 2005 -

From Watermelon to Raspberries

Not published -

Webster City Day Care Center

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