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AN EARLY HISTORY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY:
WHEN IOWA IS
‘THE WILD WEST’
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- an Iowa Century Museum -
CARNEGIE
HISTORICAL MUSEUM
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PREHISTORY
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ICE AGE Pleistocene
Migration
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PALEO-INDIANS
Hunters & gatherers first occupy Iowa at
the end of the Pleistocene glacial period.
13,500–10,500 years ago
Clovis Points
IOWA is covered by tundra, conifer forests and deciduous forests.
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Tooth shapes of these 15,000 year-old molars indicate mastodons browse tree
branches, while mammoths graze grasses. Fossils of these extinct Ice Age (Pleistocene) creatures resembling elephants have been
widely found across Iowa.
MASTODON (LEFT) AND MAMMOTH (RIGHT) TEETH
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ARCHAIC-the longest period of Iowa prehistory,
lasts about 8,000 years. Populations increase in Iowa despite a changing climate.
In the Late Archaic (5,000–2,800 years ago) the climate becomes similar to modern. Larger populations create
The Late Archaic sees the first mound building in Iowa, as well as direct evidence of domesticated plants, and
large, long-term settlements.
St. Charles LANCE POINT 5000 B.C.
new subsistence strategies.
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WOODLAND PERIOD
Native Iowans shift away from hunting & gathering.
More domesticated plants come into use . . .
. . . wild food is still important.
Hand-built CERAMICS, bows & arrows, burial mounds and evidence of political and social hierarchy become common
at Iowa Woodland sites.
1000 B.C. – 1000 A.D.
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BOB HALL, CIRCA 1980
Banner Stones and ceremonial flint blades he dug as a boy from burial mounds on the home farm
c. 1915.
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EARLY RECORDED HISTORY
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1673
1st recorded Europeans in Iowa,
Jesuit Father Marquette & Louis Joliet
Last voyage of the CARNEGIE MUSEUM’s Birch bark canoe, paddled by Bill Kay- Van Buren County . . . . . . October 1969
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1803 Louisiana Purchase 4 April 1804 Lewis & Clark mention the IOWAY in their journal.
The Carnegie Museumhas seventy-five artifacts of a type referred to in the expedition records.
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THE IOWAY
Iowaville, an Ioway village on the Des Moines River near Ottumwa. The Ioways live there between about 1770
and 1824. They hunt, trap, farm, & trade . . . and . . . defend themselves against other groups.
1836 relocation of the Ioways from Western Missouri to Wolf River, Kansas.
Corporate Charter of the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska -- Ratified June 19, 1937
Chief Mahaska of Iowaville McKinney & Hall diplomatic portrait
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BLACK HAWK WAR
Both Abraham Lincoln and early Jefferson County
settlers serve in the Illinois Militia . . . . . . 1832.
The U.S. Army moves the Sauk Indian tribe from Illinois to Iowa. The Sauk have run-ins with the native Ioways and don't like Iowa. Chief Black Hawk leads them back to plant their old fields.
Seeing Indians on their land, white settlers panic & shoot two Indians dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Black Hawk
retaliates.
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BLACK HAWK PURCHASE
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Horse Wife Son
KEOKUK & HIS FAVORITES :
Circa 1910 litho reproductions of portraits by George Catlin
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George Catlin pays scant homage to Keokuk’s old rival.
BLACK HAWK
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By George Catlin
SAC & FOX ELDER
Catlin is most famous for documenting tribes of the Great Plains but spends a surprising amount of time painting in Eastern Iowa.
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THE MES-KWA-KI Meskwaki means
“PEOPLE of the RED EARTH".
They are originally from Wisconsin.
The Meskwaki come to Iowa in the mid 1800s after wars with various European settlers & other tribal groups.
The Treaty of 1842 relocates them to Kansas. Chief Poweshiek's band returns to Iowa and purchases settlement land near Tama.
The French call them "Reynards" or foxes - the Sac (or Sauk) have a similar language . Both groups are designated “Meskwaki “by the federal government.
Ribbon-work by Mrs. Bill Leaf, circa 1915
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POW-A-SHEEK
McKinney & Hall lithograph from an 1830’s oil portrait
painted in Washington, D.C.
Sauk & Fox War Dance
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JOHN HUFF BORN 1811
First man of European descent known to visit Jefferson County in 1835 . . . makes
barrels and fills them with wild
honey. $ $ $ $ $
John Deere steel plow 1835
McCormick Reaper 1834
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BREAKING SOD
Tough root system
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THE MYSTERIOUS IRON CROSS
Bill Perry 1953The first settlersencounter it ona limestone bluffnear Libertyville.
As a Parsons Collegegeology student, Billfinds a hand–forged iron spike embeddedat the site. This maybe a cross fragment.
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POW-A-SHEEKencampment is near Lockridge in 1836 when William Coop is born. He is the first pioneer
child born in Jefferson County.
William Coop & Friend 1981bronze statue by Christopher Bennett
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JOHN RUSH PARSONS 1840’S
Plows six mile furrow from his farm to Fairfield . . . . Now Highway 34
Huge sod-breaking plow
Eight yoke of oxen
Judith Ward is a descendent.
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In 1837, two years after
Ann’s death, Mrs. Rutledge moves to Birmingham and
brings this walking wheel with her.
The LINCOLN Romance
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BONNIFIELD CABIN 1838
. . . where Nancy Bonnifield gives Fairfield its name in 1839.
Listed on the NATIONAL REGISTER of HISTORIC PLACES
Restoration work 2005
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Buffalo Hunt by George Catlin
The last sightings of American
Bison in the wild
Buffalo Danceby Catlin
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IOWASTATEHOOD
1846
Texas Statehood, December 29, 1845
Iowa Statehood, December 28, 1846
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JOEL TURNEY
Builds wagons for the “49ers” on their way to California . . . In 1888 he moves
the business from
Trenton, Iowa to
FAIRFIELD.
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1858 - Irish Catholic
workers lay Fairfield’s
first railway line.
RAILWAY SERVICE
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THE WIDEAWAKES
This flag is carried in Jefferson County’s
largest political rally.
1860
The torchlight parade sees 25,000 people in attendance.
Ink drawing byW. H. Jackson
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– PATRIOTIC IOWA –
More Iowans serve per capita than any other state.
From
Fair
field
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Lincoln Sat Herethe President and Fairfield’s U. S. Representative,
James Falconer Wilson, sit for
Brady Studio portraits.
1862-
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LEWIS B. PARSONS, JR. 1818
- 1907
1863 – Lincoln signs promotion to rank of Captain
1865 – Lincoln, Grant & Stanton write testimonials praising his work as QUARTER MASTER .
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Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
James F. Wilson calls on Lincoln at the White House
!!YOU’VE WON!!It’s official.
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THOMAS EMERSON
MAPLETHORPEwalks from his farm near Wellman to the Iowa City train depot for this newspaper.
1849 - 1922
Emigrated from England at age ten.
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1865 JAMES F. WILSON
Our Congressman rides the LINCOLN
Funeral Train.
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The Byrkits were Quaker Conductors on the UNDERGROUND RAIL ROAD
Archie ByrkitRIFLE
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McCormickReaper 1834
William Louden, the Cyrus McCormick of Jefferson County . . . . . . . . 30,000 custom barns on every continent, except Antarctica
WILLIAM LOUDEN
INVENTOR, 1841 - 1931
1867 LOUDEN Hay Carrier
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Stephenson Coverlets
the family shearthe sheep, spin & dye the wool
Jacquard weave
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SYNERGY
Louden Hay Carrier =BIGGER barns
1867
Split rails keep foraging critters
OUT !
BIGGER barns =
More hay
1870’s barbed wire keep
BIGGER herds IN !
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DRAFT HORSES
By the 1880’s imported horses
replace oxen. They are faster.
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THE END
Mark ShaferCarnegie Historical Museum
25 August 2010
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CREDITSCarnegie Historical Museum
A Fair Field by Susan Fulton WeltyFairfield at the Turn of the Century by Mark Shafer
Maasdam Barns Preservation CommitteJefferson County Historic Preservstion Commission
Wikipedia GOOGLE Image SearchMrs. Gwen Wells William PerryBill Cay Mrs. Vera Young
Fairfield Public LibraryKeith Shafer Mrs. Edith Jordan
Jefferson County Heritage Trail
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Southeast Iowa is the land
of his shirt-tail relations
IF ILLINOIS IS THE LAND of LINCOLN,
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