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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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Barr Bicycle and Fitness, Inc. - History http://www.homestead.com/kenyoncooper/history.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Brief mention of a bicycle shop in Rolfe, as follows, "Moore was well known in central Iowa as a bicycle racer from Des Moines, racing in most major competitions locally in the 1890's. He briefly had a bicycle store up at Rolfe, Iowa with a partner named Glen Tidrick, and it was in the rear of Rich's Hardware Store. It was called Moore & Tidrick, and existed briefly in 1896."...
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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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Troublesome Creek - PBS website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/trouble/filmmore/index.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Jordans rented a farm near Rolfe for 20 years. More About the Film Troublesome Creek. By the late 1980s, Iowa farmers Russ and Mary Jane Jordan had accumulated a large debt. Faced with losing their farm, The Jordans came up with a dramatic solution to hold onto their family farm as massive foreclosures swept the nation.
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Liben Music Publishers - Eldon Obrecht http://www.liben.com/obrecht.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...A short biography of Eldon Obrecht. Eldon was a University of Iowa professor, composer, and author.
He was born in Rolfe, Iowa on June 9, 1920. His father ran a movie theater, which provided some of his early musical experiences.
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