John Dohany came to Council Bluffs in 1856 and soon after arriving, opened a livery stable on Bryant Street, a half block north of West Broadway. As the proprietor of this business, he would provide accommodations and care for people’s horses.
The Carnegie style building of the Council Bluffs Public Library was feeling the strain of becoming a modern library. Bond measures for a new library failed to pass in 1980 and 1991. In 1994 it was time to try again.
In 1825 Nathan Ranney sent a letter to his brother Nathaniel detailing what he had been up to in the past 10 years. The unique thing about this letter is that it was sent from "The Council Bluffs."
The planning for the first National Horticultural Congress began in March of 1908. The event was going to be held in mid December, the same time as the National Corn Exposition in Omaha
In 1932 picketing farmers shut down Council Bluffs highways in a tense stand-off with law enforcement. This is the story of how years of depressed prices and government inaction led farmers in western Iowa to mount a populist revolt.
Bette Evans was born to Henry and Claudia Evans on November 19, 1909 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sometime before she turned 10 Bette's parents divorced and she was raised by her mother and grandmother.
John Baptiste Beno was born in 1843 in Alsace, France. In 1850 his family came to America and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1861 John moved to Council Bluffs and lived with a brother who had moved here before him.
