The 'history' section encompasses a great many areas.

biographies of individuals
churches
crime
Primitive Baptist Library
schools
town histories

'History of Poweshiek Co., Iowa, Vol II, 1911', Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911.
Available Adobe Acrobat PDF format, 15 MB, if you email me (lesleyjon AT yahoo.com) and request the actual link to the location of the file. Thanks goes out to Google who has been working diligently on scanning books that are no longer covered by copyrights.

This book may be transcribed soon, and if so it will appear on this page.

NOTE: This file is 15MB.
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Coming:
Standard Atlas of Poweshiek County, 1896
Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Publishers & Engravers Chicago