Diary kept by Charles Whipple Hadley (1844-1936), of Anamosa, Iowa. At age 17, Hadley left Anamosa to enlist in the Union army during the American Civil War. He traveled south to Davenport, where he became a member of the 14th Iowa Regiment of…
Pictured here are boys participating in a track event at the Oskaloosa Community Stadium in 1926. The ground for the stadium was originally broke in 1925, and the stadium was completely finished in 1929, although meets like this were able to be…