The Iowa Pioneer Experience
Sketch of first schoolhouse
Man Directing a Two-horse Plow
Wagon and Oxen Illustration, 1848
On the Move in a Wagon
Covered Wagons
Come to Iowa
Pioneers Travel in Groups
Sod Houses
Log Cabins
Frontier Social Gatherings
Interior of Settler Cabins
Pioneer Women
Sickness and Death on the Frontier
Pioneer Children
Sod Roofed One Room Log School House
Time Frame: 1900
Photo of sketch of first schoolhouse in Maquoketa which was originally built as a blacksmith shop by pioneer settler, J.E. Goodenow. Building had sod roof. ca. 1900 (photograph). Photographer: Cundill, Maquoketa, Iowa.
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