LOCAL HISTORY

Some 40 years ago, my mother donated a 1915 landscape plan to the State Historical Society of Iowa’s (SHSI) library in Iowa City. The plan, a rare surviving hand-painted sketch by landscape architect Joseph Krieger for Waterloo architect Howard Burr (1885-1964), was part of their design of what later became my family’s home in rural…

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Learn about Lake Sugema, from its history and how it was named to the wildlife that calls it home.