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2024:

January 5, 2024: Mayors of Council Bluffs, 1853-1920, and a Boundary Map of Pottawattamie County

2023:

December 3, 2023: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Provard Post #414, Carson, Iowa

November 6, 2023: List of burials for Minden Cemetery in Minden Township

October 2, 2023: List of burials for St. Paul's Evangelical Church Cemetery in Lewis Township, plus 20 year reunion for the Abe Lincoln Council Bluffs High School Class of 1922

September 3, 2023: Index to Wills from Avoca Courthouse 1885-1909

August 31, 2023: Ladies' List & Gentlemen's List of unclaimed letters at the Council Bluffs Post Office in 1886

July 12, 2023: Updated list of burials in Crescent Cemetery

June 1, 2023: Drawings of 196 Residences in Pottawattamie County in 1885

May 19, 2023: Photos of 22 postcards of Council Bluffs added from David Shedlock's collection

May 8, 2023: Drawings of 8 City Schools in Pottawattamie County, 1885

April 6, 2023: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Lincoln Post #29, Council Bluffs, Iowa

March 3, 2023: Portraits from the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa by J. J. Keatley

February 10, 2023: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Grant Post #123, Avoca, Iowa

February 1, 2023: Iowa Gravestone Photo Project Surname Index for Pottawattamie County

January 5, 2023: Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery (Neola, Boomer Township) burial listing

2022:

Dec 8, 2022: County Map and Township Plat Maps for 1919

Nov 1, 2022: Map of Pottawattamie County, 1935, showing railroads and 40 Portraits of People living in Pottawattamie County in 1891

July 14, 2022: Original Land Grant from 1860

June 6, 2022: Macedonia School photos 1925-1935, 4-H Club photos from Macedonia Wide Area, and Macedonia Lone Star Church picnic 1910 [all contributed by Anita Casey from photos saved and identified by her mother, Catharine Fay (Coons) Grimes, 1917-1978]

April 1, 2022: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Dix Post #408, Walnut, Iowa

March 8, 2022: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Gilbert Post #225, Neola, Iowa

February 2, 2022: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Osborne Post #407, Council Bluffs, Iowa

January 31, 2022: Civil War, Grand Army of the Republic - Bradford Post #471, Quick, Iowa

2021:

October 15, 2021: Oakland School 3rd grade class photo - 1957

September 18, 2021: Alphabetical Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1848-1879

July 13, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1878-1879

June 23, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1876-1877

May 29, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1874-1875

May 26, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1872-1873

March 20, 2021: Griswold Cemetery burial listings

February 18, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1870-1871

February 8, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1868-1869

January 24, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1866-1867

January 13, 2021: Updated Surname Index to gravestone photos in Pottawattamie County Cemeteries

January 6, 2021: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1864-1865

2020:

December 12, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1862-1863

November 16, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1860-1861

November 11, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1858-1859

November 9, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1856-1857

November 5, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1899

October 28, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1854-1855

September 8, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1852-1853

August 25, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1850-1851

August 20, 2020: Index of Marriages for Pottawattamie County 1848-1849

May 1, 2020: Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Pottawattamie County 1856

April 9, 2020: Postal Workers of Pottawattamie County 1889

March 19, 2020: Lincoln Township Cemetery burial listings

2019:

December 29, 2019: Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1910 - Pottawattamie County

October 13, 2019: Residents of Pottawattamie County age 90 & over in 1895

August 27, 2019: Thanks to Gayla Johnson, over 3,000 gravestone photos have been added since May to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project for the following cemeteries: Memorial Park, Ridgewood, Saint Joseph, Walnut Hill

March 19, 2019: Postcard collection reorganized + 19 postcards from David Shedlock

2018:

December 15, 2018: Whipple Cemetery burial listings

October 1, 2018: Evans Cemetery and Newtown Cemetery burial listings

September 7, 2018: Neola Cemetery Burial listed

June 21, 2018: Spanish American War soldiers from Pottawattamie County

June 20, 2018: American Revolution Soldier - Jeremiah Hatch

April 14, 2018: Garner Cemetery Burials listed

April 6, 2018: Oaklawn Cemetery Burials listed

March 24, 2018: Century Farms awarded 1976-2017

February 17, 2018: Vietnam Casualties - Pottawattamie County

2017:

December 3, 2017: Fisher Cemetery Burials listed

November 14, 2017: Reels Cemetery Burials listed

April 20, 2017: Birth Records 1904-1906

2015:

December 12, 2015: Plat Maps by Township 1900

December 8, 2015:  Marriages 1881-1892

October 6, 2015:  Subject Index to My Loveland

August 24, 2015:  Abraham Lincoln High School Class of 1925

July 19, 2015:  Abraham Lincoln High School Class of 1922

June 2, 2015:  History of Downsville

May 23, 2015: Petition by Citizens of Macedonia to General Assembly of State of Iowa 1902

May 20, 2015: Macedonia High School Yearbook 1926

May 7, 2015:  Treynor High School Alumni 1921-1950

April 29, 2015:  Oakland or Minden School Photo, Circa 1945

April 16, 2015:  Abraham Lincoln High School Class of 1921

March 30 2015:  Walnut High School 1930-1950

March 29, 2015:  Walnut High School 1889-1929

March 17, 2015:  Abraham Lincoln High School Class of 1927

March 4, 2015:  Council Bluffs High School Class of 1898

February 25, 2015:  1883 Biographical Sketches for Council Bluffs

February 10, 2015:  World War I - Council Bluffs Men Who Gave Their Lives in War

January 31, 2015:  Thomas Jefferson High School Class of 1928

January 26, 2015: Council Bluffs High School Class of 1897

January 23, 2015: 1883 Biographical Sketches for Minden,  Neola, Norwalk, Pleasant, Rockford, Silver Creek, Valley, Washington, Wright and York Townships

January 4, 2015:  1883 Biographical Sketches on James, Keg Creek, Knox, Layton, Lewis, Lincoln and Macedonia

2014:

December 28, 2014:  1870 Federal Census

December 14, 2014:  Town Maps 1885 (Some With Landowner Names)

December 14, 2014:  Plat Maps by Township 1885

December 7, 2014:  Oakland High School Alumni 1916-1925

November 24, 2014:  Oakland High School Alumni 1895-1915

November 24, 2014:  1920 Federal Census

November 19, 2014:  Macedonia Alumni 1926-1945

November 17, 2014:  1883 Biographical Sketches - History of Pottawattamie County - Hardin & Hazel Dell

November 15, 2014:  1883 Biographical Sketches - History of Pottawattamie County - Grove

November 13, 2014:  1870 Federal Census

October 29, 2014:  Biographical Sketches - History of Pottawattamie County 1883 - Center & Crescent

October 28, 2014:  Macedonia Alumni 1893-1925

October 23, 2014:  Death Certificate Index for 1938

October 16, 2014:  1883 Biographical Sketches for Boomer Township

October 6, 2014:  1883 Biographical Sketches for Belknap Township

October 4, 2014:  Disbursements by Park Commissioner - Council Bluffs Parks 1894-1895

September 30, 2014:  Who's Who 1920 by Lake and Prince

September 24, 2014:  History of Pottawattamie County, 1907, by Field and Reed, Section 4

September 15, 2014:  Macedonia Football Team 1933

September 11, 2014:  History of Pottawattamie County, 1907, by Field and Reed, Section 3

September 7, 2014:  Korean War Killed in Action, Missing in Action and Prisoner of War

September 3, 2014:  Civil War Veterans Reunion, 1911,  Fourth Iowa Infantry and Dodge's Second Iowa Battery

September 1, 2014:  Grand Army of the Republic Post 161 - Macedonia - 1886

September 1, 2014:  Pensioners on the Roll 1883

August 26, 2014:  Macedonia Cemetery Civil War Veterans added to Civil War Page

August 26, 2014:  The Tale of Calvin Bradway

August 24, 2014:  History of Pottawattamie County, 1907, by Field and Reed, Sections 1 and 2

August 21, 2014:  Plat Book by Township, 1930

August 16, 2014:  Who's Who 1940 Biographical Sketches

August 14, 2014:  Macedonia High School Alumni Banquet, May 16, 1930

August 13, 2014:  New Biography and Family History Page

August 13, 2014:  RLDS - Winter Quarters Map

August 3, 2014: Updated newspaper page, letters from Allen, Bergen and Houston, + clippings

August 1, 2014: St. Columbanus Gravestones

July 26, 2014:  Panorama of Council Bluffs, 1916

July 26, 2014:  Updated Mormon Battalion Page

July 23, 2014: Articles in the Weekly Council Bluffs Bugle on Abraham Lincoln, 1859-1860

July 18, 2014:  Council Bluffs Board of Education, Officers and Standing Committees, 1893-1894

July 14, 2014:  Death Certificate Index, 1920-1937

July 1, 2014:  1854 State Special Census

June 2014:  Bushnell's 1869 Directory - History of Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County

June 2014:  Council Bluffs City Officers 1895

June 2014:  Bushnell's Council Bluffs Business and Resident's Directory, 1869

June 2014:  Council Bluffs School System Principals, Supervisors & Teachers - 1894-1895

June 2014: Council Bluffs School System Alumni - 1871 to 1894

May 2014:  History of Pottawattamie County from Who's Who 1940 by J. R. Perkins

May 2014:  Macedonia - Grove School #9 - May 23, 1941

May 2014:  Basketball Player Emma Luceille Fisher - Macedonia - Class of 1930

May 2014:  RLDS - Mormons - Home Page

May 2014:  Macedonia Baseball Team - 1908

May 2014:  Macedonia Basketball Team - 1911

May 2014:  Macedonia High School - Class of 1951

May 2014:  Early Days at Council Bluffs by Charles Babbitt, 1916

May 2014:  School Group Photo Circa 1925 - Possibly Minden - Only Two Students Identified

May 2014:  Chapter 6 of History of Pottawattamie County 1882 by W. T. Giles

April 2014:  Fathers' Clubs of Council Bluffs - 1914 to 1915

April 2014:  Saint Bernard's Hospital - Council Bluffs- 1890

April 2014:  Broadway Street- Council Bluffs - 1868

April 2014:  Broadway Street- Council Bluffs - 1854 or 1868

April 2014:  Iowa School for the Deaf - History and Timeline

April 2014:  Letters - 1850 to 1900

April 2014: Minden Baseball Team - 1903 - Historic Photo

April 2014:  Minden Fire Department - Circa 1905 to 1910 - Historic Photo

April 2014:  Your new Pottawattamie County Coordinator is Lynn Diemer.

2013:

June 2013: Marriages of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Wheeler's Grove Branch

April 2013: Chapter 5 of History of Pottawattamie County 1882 by W. T. Giles

April 2013: Chapter 4 of History of Pottawattamie County 1882 by W. T. Giles

2011:

December 1, 2011:  History of Pottawattamie County 1882 by W. T. Giles

April 21, 2011:  History of Wright Township -1892

2009:

November 30, 2009:  Abraham Lincoln High School - 1944 (Text) 

November 30, 2009:  Abraham Lincoln High School - 1944 [Pictures] 

November 30, 2009:  Marriages 1871 -1874, A-F  [Partial]

Before 2009:

Abraham Lincoln High School - 1945 (Text)

Abraham Lincoln High School - 1945 (Image view)

1920 US Federal Census, Juvenile Detention Home, Council Bluffs, Kane Township

1920 US Federal Census, Christian Home Orphanage , Council Bluffs, Iowa

Surname Index of Family Histories from 1978 Makers of Fire, Pottawattamie County History

1978 Makers of Fire -- Pottawattamie County Historical Sketches -- pages 125-130

Alumni, Council Bluffs High School 1904

Neola Fire Department 1963 - Historic Photo