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The site has been under construction since July, 2001.  Check here for recent additions.
Also check "Thanks to our Contributors" to see who is contributing to our history web site!

Help identify unknown photos ... Click on this link

 NEW on 4/21/12 - Over 900 scanned pages of Odebolt area obituaries!

2010

Norwegians in Odebolt? 
Looking for people who came from Romsdal or Romsdalen or Ramsdalen, Norway and settled in the Odebolt, Iowa area.    Please email

 - Arne Hunnes, Elnewvaagen, Norway

 

st_martins_old.jpg (92042 bytes)Please help identify the children in this old photo. Click the thumbnail to enlarge it.

It was sent in by Donna Winkel, who said, "I recently received a picture of a group of children on the day of their 1st Communion. I think it is in front of St. Martin's because of old pictures on the web site.  I would like to find out the names of the children. My Grandmother gave me the picture but is not sure which is a relative and there is not a date on the picture. She thinks it is maybe in the 1920's sometime.  Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.  Contact us at , and we will relay the information to Donna.  Thanks!

 

NEEDED -  EXTRA COPY of the gold  1977 Odebolt Centennial Book, "As Time Goes By".  If you have a copy you would sell, please contact the webmaster. (Email address below)

NEEDED -  OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF BANK ON 2ND ST.  Curt Wareham is looking for old photographs of the bank building which stands next to Jim's TV, especially of the interior, since all the bank fixtures, counters and cages were sold and removed many years ago. If you can help him out, please contact him at Jim's TV or email the web master at

 

Coming in the future ... Mission Covenant Cradle Roll & Membership Certificates.  [From Sharyl (Anderson) Mildenstein];  Stratton hotel and Hopkins information;

11/26/10 Misc. image additions:  
Albert Dickensen popcorn bag
Cemetery Deed
W.E. Hamilton booklet
Jan. 1904 Cedar Rapids Gazette popcorn shipping article
two photos of Fairview Farm; Hiram B. Smith farm
photos of "Masons" taken by E.S. Frey, an early Odebolt photographer.
article & photos from the Des Moines "Morning Register", July 1943, telling about prisoners on the Adams Ranch, and also about Adams Ranch (Fairview Farm); ALSO a letter of memories from a guard of the prisoners, by Wayne Carlson.
obituary of Robert B. Adams, 1956 - scroll down to bottom of Robert Adams section.
photo of the "Commercial House" - an early hotel
 

11/25/10  William Henry Hopkins - added business card (midway down page).
Stratton family & hotel

11/14/10 - Photos from Allen S. Hoaglund, Ohio - Amelia Fertig home (scroll to bottom); photo of Henry Fertig, Dan Tews and William Rhule.

10/23/10 - PHOTOS FROM THE PAST:  Please view and help identify old photos that were scanned by Odebolt Museum Curator, Kathy Larson, from a photo album belonging to Mrs. Fred Einspahr. 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/odebolt/sets/72157624873008013/
If you can identify any people, please send an email. 

10/23/10 - Tokens, Ads & Greetings page updated with three new rows of tokens.

Picture of the bunkhouse at Adams Ranch (Fairview Farm Photo Gallery

Cherry Sisters - 3 Additional photos

Adams Ranch Memories  memories of Pete Stripling, who worked at the Ranch, and was known as "Cowboy".

Also - View 3 pages of photos of the Ranch posted by Mike Stuker on "smugmug"

From googlebooks:  Den svensk-lutherska kyrken i Odebolt, Sac County (in Swedish; contains photos of some early Swedish people that organized the church Lutheran church in Odebolt.

 

2009

CHRISTMAS PAST 2009  -- Merry Christmas from the Odebolt History Pages!

Gustaf & Emma Anderson Family ... with wrestling & boxing posters

Photo of children of Christian Roth (bottom of page)

From googlebooks on-line

Cook Ranch Page Updated with ....
(New entries are highlighted on the Cook Ranch page.  Scroll down to find them.)
    Charles W. Cook Biography
    Excerpts; Cook Family/Brookmont Farm
    Brookmont Farm (Cook Ranch) Hereford History
    Photo of a shipment of hogs from Brookmont Farm

The Story behind "Bang Town" - nickname for the north portion of Odebolt

Hiram C. Wheeler Biography from 1910 Annals of Iowa

The Rev. Jesse Helsell Biography (father of Odebolt attorney, W.A. Helsell)

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Photo of 1895 Odebolt School Children

1914 Panoramic Photo of Odebolt School, students and faculty

Mission Covenant Confirmation Photos, 1928/1930

2008

Christmas Past 2008

Added photos to Valentine Henrich biography

William Henry Hopkins, Civil War photo, biography and notes written during the war.

Photo of "Grandma Nable" by Lundquist Brothers, early photographers in Odebolt, contributed by Mike Peterson.  The photo can also be viewed at History of Odebolt Businesses

The Odebolt Dairy & Cheese Factory owned by the Lindner family.


2007

December

Continuation of the Memoirs of Oscar F. Peterson

Happy Holidays from The Odebolt History Pages!  Click for Christmas Past, 2007

2007 Obituaries (through November)

November

Postcard of the G.H. Ballard house, later owned by E.P. Potteiger, Anna Carlson and by Dennis & Eleanor Peterson.

Additional name identification to the 1917 photo of Mission Covenant church members
(Picture #3 - 3rd thumbnail from the left)

October

 - Excerpts from an 1891 article, "Farmer" Wheeler's Home, written when Hiram C. Wheeler was running as a Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa; talks about Odebolt, Wheeler's home, office and huge farm.

 - Added numerous photos to the Arthur Post Card Page

September - 2006 Deaths/Obituaries;   1999 Deaths/Obituaries (See Obituary Index)

July - Anders "Montana" Anderson 50th Wedding Anniversary;  photo and family information

June - Interview with P. Dale GronemeyerA Short History of Odebowl Lanes

April - 1956 Obituary on Charles Nelson, long-time Odebolt merchant, along with an editorial about him from the Odebolt Chronicle.

March - Article from 1910 about an Agricultural Tour of the Cook Ranch, W.A. Helsell's Lookout Farm, the Adams Ranch and Henry Hanson's Echo Valley farm.  The article includes descriptions of the workings of the farms, as well as how Odebolt area people turned out with 26 automobiles to drive the participants on the tour.

February - Articles about Hiram C. Wheeler

January - Added several identities to the large 1917 photo of the Mission Covenant Church congregation.

 


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