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Palisades-Kepler State Park

Postcard addressed to Mr. James Nixon dated March 7, 1914

Postcard addressed to Mr. James Nixon

Postcard of Cedar River at Palisades Kepler State Park addressed to Mr. James Nixon dated … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cedar River, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Postcard

Postcard of Cedar River at Palisades Kepler State Park @1914

Postcard of Cedar River at Palisades

Postcard of Cedar River at Palisades Kepler State Park @1914  

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cedar River, Palisades-Kepler State Park

The Lodge

Photo of the Lodge in the Palisades postcard

@1943-44. The Lodge. Palisades State Park. Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Postcard

Palisades Dam

Photo of Palisades Dam postcard

@1943-44. The Dam. Palisades State Park. Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Postcard.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Postcard

Palisades State Park

Photo of back of Palisades State Park Postcard

@October 3, 1931. Written October 3, stamped October 5th. Palisades State Park. Postcard. “Am having … Read more …

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park

Palisades State Park

Photo of Palisades State Park Postcard

@ October 1931. Palisades State Park. Mount Vernon, Iowa.

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Palisades-Kepler State Park

Spring Hollow

photo of Spring Hollow

Cedar River in the Palisades

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags box, Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Spring Hollow, When is this?

High Water in Palisades-Kepler State Park

photo of High Water in Palisades-Kepler State Park

Date @1915

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags box, Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, Who am I?

Lower Palisades

photo of Flat Rock Residence at Lower Palisades

Flat Rock Residence at Lower Palisades

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags box, Glass Negative, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?

Unidentified Art – Mixed Media

photo of Unidentified Art - Mixed Media

Black and white photo, coloring over it Upper Palisades near the Ivanhoe bridge Date @1906

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park

Cedar River in the Palisades

photo of Cedar River in the Palisades

Palisades – Big bend Date @1910

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Cedar River, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park

Screeching Sands, Lower Palisades

photo of Screeching Sands, Lower Palisades

2282 C. U. Williams

Categories Mount Vernon's Historic Photos Tags Glass Negative, Mount Vernon, Palisades-Kepler State Park, When is this?
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2 years ago

Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission
The MVHPC partnered with the Linn County Historic Preservation Commission and the Mount Vernon Lisbon Community Development Group on the placement of two new informational kiosks about the history of the Lincoln Hwy in Lisbon and Mount Vernon. There was a commemoration at the Kiosk in Lisbon on Oct. 6 with a poem created for the event by Poet Laureate Amanda Kibbie. The MV Kiosk is located in Prairie Park next to the Cornell football field. The MV kiosk faces one of the last remaining brick portions of the Lincoln Hwy and is near the 10th Avenue Overpass. The overpass was built in approximately 1910 as a part of the Lincoln Hwy. Credit to Steven Ciha of the LCHPC for images. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 years ago

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UPDATE!!! Thanks to Jay and Arlie Willems, the circa 1910 glass negatives are now in the Mount Vernon Archives. We are grateful to Arlie and Jay for transporting the negatives and to Joe Burkart of Crestview Florida for donating them.Photo collectors in Crestview Florida have glass plate negatives of a photographer named Hodson who worked in and around Mount Vernon in 1910. The collectors have offered the negatives to the MVHPC. The plates are fragile and very heavy, so shipping them is not a good option. Is anyone planning to travel by car to Florida anytime in the next year and willing pick up these negatives in the panhandle of the state? If so, please send a message on this site to the site administrator. ... See MoreSee Less
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Mount Vernon Historic Preservation Commission updated their status.

2 years ago

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