HISTORY OF LAMONI, DECATUR COUNTY, IOWA




Lamoni Pictures Courtesy of Alma Blair


Tourist cabins on Main and State Streets. Cars from 1930's? Valvoline Oil sign.
1912 or 1913. Cars for"Good Roads" tour. Lamoni group. Acacia 1913.
East 100 NW Main street. 1912-1918.

RLDS Children's Home. Also E. Banta Home. 508 S. State Street. 1911-1927. Burned.
The Coliseum. Built 1911. Pre-1923, this photo shows a crowd leaving.
Elevators. On the corner of 4th and Chestnut. There was another elevator two blocks east.

Interior of large soda fountain. 110 E. Main.
Ferns in Soda Fountain.
Foreman Ice House. E. Tenth St. north side, between Cherry and Ferguson Streets.

Collecting ice from Foreman Ice pond. Park is Forman Park.
Foreman Ice pond.

Herald Publishing Company. Just rebuilt 1907. West side of Walnut & 8th Streets. Shows large smokestack used for generating plant.
Saints Herald Publishing Company built in summer 1881.
Addition to Saints Herald Publishing Company in summer 1892.

Herald Publishing Company fire January 5, 1907. Rebuilt by fall.
Hoffman gasoline station southeast corner Main and State. 1935? Near "Corner Courts."
General Store Southeast corner Linden and Main.

North side 100 block East Main. Postcard. Pre-1911. Silver Restaurant and Barr hotel near end.
West side 100 block N. Linden. McElroy Drug, Denio's, Tin Shop farther down street.
Postmen 1902 or 1912. Middle 100 block N. Linden on the east side.

Railway Station ca. 1900. New brick station was built 1923.
RLDS Church Conference train ca. 1910-20. Special cars for large crowds.
Around turn of century (no cars). Flags. Possibly a patriotic or political event.

Steel rollers, steam powered with pond. Photo is post 1915. First Allen's Mill (owned by James Allen) and then Moon's Mill (James Allen's son-in-law Charles Moon).
Iron gate entrance to Rose Hill Cemetery West Main Street.
Rosalia Dancer gave the land for Rose Hill Cemetery. The first burial was of her grown son.

RLDS Church Saints Home for the aged. 1896-1956. End of N. Silver Street.
West side 100 block S. Linden. "France block" with Coal Company. Man has feet on huge blocks of coal.
100 Block S. Linden. Pre 1918. Restaurant, Panitorium, Lamoni Chronicle Office.

Snow storm Main Street pre 1918. Shows town pump.
West Main Street snow. Note horse sleighs.
Threshing crew and visitors somewhere west of Lamoni.

Closeup of town pump center of Main and Linden. Flag Pole.
Railroad cars of W. Main and N. State bridge. Shows wood walk.
Big general department sale by O.C. Whisler, Jan. 1911.


Lamoni Homes Courtesy of Alma Blair


Horace and Sally church Home. 518 W. Main Street.
Horace Church home remodeled. 518 W. Main Street.
Frederick A. Smith Home. 421 S. Linden.

Original farm house pre-Lamoni. Lamoni was established 1879. Around 105 N. Maple. Moved later and burned about 1977.
Valentine White house. First house built in Lamoni, 1879. 116 S. Maple. Oldest house in Lamoni in 2007.
Modern view of Valentine White home 2005.




Lamoni Street Scene Courtesy of the Decatur County Historical Society Museum
Lamoni General Store built were the new Drugstore is now
Lamoni General Store Names

Lamoni Chevy Dealer 1920. Jack Creveling, Ira Bowen and Charles Rew.
Lamoni Scott and Teale Store
Machine Shop in Lamoni 1913. Melvin Midgorden, Paul Roberts, Oscar Midgorden
C. B. Thomas born August 26, 1838. Came to Lamoni in 1881. Teacher and Missionary. Died 1915.




Lamoni Bank Souvenir 1907 and additional Lamoni Photos


Clerks of Lamoni
Mayors of Lamoni
Alcock - Lamoni

Explosion in Lamoni
Market Prices in Lamoni 1893
Lake Proposal for Lamoni
Lamoni Improvements May 11, 1893
GAR in Lamoni, 1909
Harvest Home Festival Lamoni 1906
Lamoni Town Council Prodeedings
Improvements in Lamoni in the Year of 1894, Part 1
Improvements in Lamoni in the Year of 1894, Part 2
Improvements in Lamoni in the Year of 1894, Part 3
Improvements in Lamoni in the Year of 1894, Part 4<
Description of Lamoni in 1894
Description of Lamoni in 1894, Part 2
Minutes of Fire Committee Meeting in Lamoni

SEMI CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF LAMONI

Semi Centennial History Of Lamoni
Semi Centennial History Of Lamoni Part 2
Semi Centennial History of Lamoni Part 3


AUTUMN LEAVES - Youth Magazine of RLDS Church





Prominent Lamoni Men

The Old Brick Church of Lamoni

Herald Publishing House

Graceland College

Sharon Becker's 1009 Road Trip to Lamoni, Nine Eagles and Pleasanton with photos