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Stone City water tower

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Berndes Center Monticello

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Anamosa State Penitentiary 

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Martelle Water Tower

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Sunset August in Eastern Iowa

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Marilyn Gray sends photos of 2 visitors from China touring the US.  Their visit was made possible by Warmshowers.org

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From Marilyn Gray, "​OUR WARMSHOWERS GUEST FROM B.C., GOING TO BAR HARBOR!!!"

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American Gothic statue on display in Anamosa

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Downtown Anamosa. American Gothic by Grant Wood

Slideshow from the 2018 Wyoming Fair, huge crowds for the truck and tractor pull

Photos in and around Anamosa


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Moving old Hale Bridge to Central Park

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Morley

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Downtown Oxford Junction

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Midland Jr Sr High School Wyoming

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Edinburgh blacksmith shop

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Edinburgh train depot

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You will notice at the bottom of this tombstone that is situated in Oakwood Cemetery, Monticello the name "Sarah Sherman" this lady was married to Grant Wood for a short time before they divorced. She is the only wife Wood ever had.
 
Her father, who is also listed on this stone, was the 2nd man to build a creamery in the State of Iowa. Eventually he would make a fortune in the "Diamond Creamery Company". Later he became the first Dairy Commissioner for Iowa. The Creamery had a fire in 1910 and as the creamery business was moving further west for cheaper product, the parent company closed the plant and sold  off what remained. The creamery in its hay day had duplicated what the Danish had done and had been canning butter for the Navy and other sailing ships that lacked refrigeration. All the butter that was used when the Panama Canal was being built came from Monticello, Iowa. 

These three rural Jones County Churches all are connected to German's who immigrated here in the 1850's through the 1920's most from the same area -  a place in Germany generally between Emden and Varel and northward to the sea. From these churches sprang St. Matthew's in Monticello and St. Paul's in Anamosa largely for the German farmers who had retired to town and no longer wanted to drive out to the country to attend church. The Lutheran churches to the South east in Jones County are largely made up of Germans from Schelswig-Holstein, the area that lies to the south of Denmark and includes some of the island farms of the Baltic and the North Sea south to include the cities of Lubbeck and Kiel to the northern border of Mecklenberg west to the Elbe River. 
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Wayne Zion Lutheran
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St. Peter & Paul Lutheran Church, Castle Grove
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St. John's Lutheran Church at Sandhill, founded in 1864 oldest Luth. Church in county
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Old German Cemetery gate at St. John's Lutheran
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Endless Road this is a road going south off highway 64 east of Anamosa
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We celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the United States entry into WWI and were fortunate to get some re-enactors from Illinois and Wisconsin to come and partake complete with a representative of the horse cavalry that became part of history as a result of trench warfare and machine guns. 

Stone City in photos


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Princess Anamosa

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Olin depot
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Wood's American Gothic
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