This is a roster of the Oskaloosa recreational baseball team around 1905. Teams like this would face other community baseball teams within Mahaska County and the surrounding area and drew large numbers of local fans to their ballgames.
This is a picture of the Oskaloosa recreational baseball team around 1905. Teams like this would face other community baseball teams within Mahaska County and the surrounding area and drew large numbers of local fans to their ballgames.
This is a picture of the Indianapolis High School baseball team in 1916. The players in the photograph are as follows from left to right: Top Row: Earl Wymore, Ralph Hatcher, Ernest Brown, Ader Ray, Joe Pringle, Merle Brower, Leonard Smith, Lloyd…
This is a picture of the Buxton Wonders baseball team around 1900. The Buxton Wonders team traveled all over Mahaska County and the surrounding area to play against other teams during this time period. Once Buxton became a ghost town in the 1920's,…
This is a photograph taken of the town square in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in 1868, following the Civil War. This view of the square comes from the northeast looking west.
Wilbur A. McNeill was a successful businessman in the coal mining industry. Born in 1843, McNeill gained his early education at Sandstone Seminary until 1861, when McNeill enlisted in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry to fight the Confederacy. McNeill…
Few men have enjoyed more success in both the railroad and coal mining inudstries than H.W. McNeill. Born June 18, 1847, in Peoria, Illinois, Hobart W. McNeill studied at the University of Virginia until the school was closed by the Confederacy. …
Few men have enjoyed more success in both the railroad and coal mining industries than H.W. McNeill. Born June 18, 1847, in Peoria, Illinois, Hobart W. McNeill studied at the University of Virginia until the school was closed by the Confederacy. …
This is a picture of George H. Ramsey, Superintendent of the Carbonado coal mining operation back in 1896. Ramsey also was a developer in the field of coal mining during the time. Coal mining was a lucrative business to be involved with if an ample…
This 1896 image shows the coal mining operation going on at Lost Creek, Iowa, located near Eddyville in Mahaska County. Lost Creek is the site of one of the deadliest coal mining explosions in history. On Friday, January 24, 1902, around noon, 67…