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Iowa DNR Meteorites in Iowa's History http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/meteor/meteorNew.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Iowa's largest meteorite impact occurred in southern Pocahontas County, just north of Manson, 74 million years before the state was inhabited....
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Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd (1924-1998) - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-117.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd was born on August 31, 1924 in Rolfe, Iowa. Dowd died in Los Altos, California on August 19, 1998. In 1941 Dowd earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Iowa State College. In 1943 Dowd enlisted in the United States Navy. She was sent to the University of California at Los Angles to attend Meteorological School and worked as a Naval Weather Forecaster until her discharge in 1947.
Dowd became employed by Sylvania Electrics Products as an electronics technician in 1958. When Sylvania Electrics Products changed to GTE Government Systems, Dowd became the Engineering Section Head. She was later appointed to the position of Engineering Department Manager. Dowd retired from GTE Government Systems in 1986. Dowd specialized in data processing, modeling, and simulation, and software development.
Dowd belonged to the Association of Old Crows (AOC) an organization related to the Electronic Warfare profession. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the art and science of using the electromagnetic spectrum (from direct current to light) for military advantage. Dowd received Certificates of Merit from the AOC in 1980 and 1983, and was awarded the AOC Special Medal in 1988....
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Pocahontas County, Iowa A Brief History http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/regions/nwest/pocahont.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Soon after the county's formal organization in March, 1859, there was a petition for the location of a county seat. Three commissioners were appointed, but only two of them visited the newly-formed county. Those two commissioners selected 200 acres near the West Fork of the Des Moines River. The original name of the town was Highland, or Highland City. Over the years it underwent several name changes; from Highland to Milton to (Old) Rolfe and finally to Parvin.
The first courthouse was built in Rolfe, as it was then called. Swamp land funds paid for a two-story, 36-foot x 50-foot Classic Revival courthouse. It was constructed of bricks that were fired on the site and timber from nearby woods. Lumber was sawed at the sawmill in Rolfe. The second floor of the courthouse was used as a school; at this time the entire county was organized into one school district.
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John Rolfe - Virtual Jamestown http://www.virtualjamestown.org/jrolfe.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...John Rolfe is best remembered for having introduced tobacco as a commercial crop to Virginia colonists. The production of this valuable commodity shaped the future development of the colony and provided an economic incentive for further expansion and settlement of the New World. Rolfe is also well-known because of his marriage to Pocahontas. This marriage brought a much-needed period of peace between the Indians and the colonists. The couple toured England in 1616 - 1617 and promoted the colony at Jamestown.
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John Rolfe - Letter http://www.virtualjamestown.org/rolfe_letter.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...A letter written by John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale about why he married Pocahontas....
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Rolfe (Iowa) Community School - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS600.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The collection contains Series 1 - Color Slides and description of slide content (1956-1959). The collection consists of 432 color slides and descriptions of the slide contents documenting the 1956-1959 school years at the Rolfe, Iowa, Community School. Events documented include: the Junior Class Play, the Grand Operetta, the Senior Trip, Spring Band Concert, Senior Class Play, Senior Breakfast, sports, and Homecoming celebrations.
The history of the Rolfe, Iowa schools dates back to 1860 when Rolfe (at its former location three miles northeast of town) hired the first teacher in the county with classes held at the log house of William M. Hait.
The Independent School District of Rolfe was established at the current town location in 1884. Students met in a two-story building made of lumber from the courthouse at Old Rolfe - the original site of the Pocahontas County seat.
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Iowa Barn Foundation http://www.iowabarnfoundation.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The primary mission of the Iowa Barn Foundation is to educate the public about Iowa’s vanishing barns and to provide barn restoration matching grants to help property owners restore their barns. In addition, property owners who use their own funds to restore or rehabilitate barns that would otherwise qualify for a matching grant are eligible to receive an Iowa Barn Foundation Award of Distinction. Take a look at some of the restored barns that have been featured on the 2001 and 2002 All-State Barn Tour.
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What A Character - Hank Worden http://www.what-a-character.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982802870 [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...A familiar face in numerous westerns, Hank Worden’s film and television work ran from the 1930s until the early 1990s. Born Norton Earl Worden in Rolfe, Iowa, he attended Stanford University and the University of Nevada where he studied engineering. Worden worked as a rodeo bronco rider, and it was while he and Tex Ritter were performing in a rodeo at New York’s Madison Square Garden that they were both selected to appear on Broadway in 1930 in Green Grow the Lilacs. His films included such classics as Red River, Fort Apache, Duel in the Sun, and The Searchers. His final screen appearance came in 1991 on the television series Twin Peaks as "The Elderly and Senile Room Service Waiter.”
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