| East side of Main Street, picture taken in 1910 | West side of Main Street, picture taken approximately in 1910 |
| Methodist Episcopal Church buildt in 1883 was the first church in Ellsworth. | Hal Keesee, first rural mail carrier out of Ellsworth, Iowa. His first route was 25 miles long when he started in 1901. |
| The State Bank building after it was robbed. On a hot summer night in 1898 the State Bank of Ellsworth as robbed of $1500.00. After robbing the bank the robbers caught the east bound midnight train to Gifford, Iowa. When the men were apprehended, the $1500.00 was found in a cigar box under the bed. | First schoool house in Ellsworth. Built and in full operation by 1900. Later cut in two, moved a block and served as two homes. One still occupied as a home. |
| New Grade School built in 1913. Notice the older shool house to the rear of the new shool on the left. | High School built in 1916 sitting across the street fro the grade school. |
| Bill Thompson and the first turkeys (1935) raised in the Ellsworth community. Bill was the foundr of the turkey industry in the area. | New Turkey Processing Plant built in 1945. Ellsworth eventually became the largest turkey producing community in the state. |
| The first Thompson Hatchery, buildt in 1938. This one was outgrown and another was built across the street in 1944. | |
