Sod House
Sod Home
A man stands in the doorway of a sod home on his farmstead
Sketch of first schoolhouse
Immigrants Flock to Iowa
Come to Iowa
Immigrant Transportation
Pioneers Travel in Groups
Early Travelers Face Danger
Pioneers Leave Civilization
Sod Houses
Interior of Settler Cabins
Pioneer Children
Family in Front of Sod Home, ca. 1909
Time Frame: ca. 1909
With few trees available for building houses, many early Iowa settlers made houses from sod. This family poses in front of their "sod shanty." ca. 1909.
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