
Category: Dexter (Iowa) History


John Quincy Adams Reynolds, Civil War Veteran

Climbing the Watertower

90th Anniversary of the Barrow Gang Capture – Special Program Sunday

Louise Oehlman Took in the Orphaned Daughter of the Clampitts

Former Boxer W.D. Clampitt, Dexter School Superintendent

Introducing the Dexter Museum Board

Kids Played Marbles with their Superintendent

Tonsillectomies, 1951

Annual Thanksgiving Dexter-Earlham Game Next Thursday [1931?]

“Thanksgiving Day As Observed In This Community” [Dexter, Iowa, 1920s]

GI Night School and President Truman’s Platform

Small Town Barber (poem)

Clint Knee, notable Perry Lawman, part of Bonnie and Clyde Posse

Sweet Success Story by Rod Stanley, Dexter Historian

1955 United Plane Crash near Dexter, Iowa

O.S. (Orlando Swain) Neal, born January 14, 1868

Nancy and the “Wilson Schoolbus”

Annual Dexter-Earlham Thanksgiving Gridiron Clash

Dexter’s 1916 Community Building AKA the “Roundhouse”

Ruby Emma Blohm Neal, born October 1, 1898

Leora’s Dexter Stories: The Scarcity Years of the Great Depression – List of Chapters

Keeping the Dexter Town Pump Oiled: a WPA Job During the 1930s

Dexter (Iowa) Essentially a College Town–Dexter Normal College

Odd Fellows Lodge by Bryon Weesner, Dexter Historian

Grandma’s Apron: Guest Blogger Grandma Ruby (Blohm) Neal

President Truman and the 1948 National Plowing Match at Dexter, Iowa

Clell F. Hoy, a Dexterite Making History and Preserving It

Girl Scouts, Dexter, Iowa–1933
