Resources for Cedar Falls Local History
Thomas Connors, University of Northern Iowa, 2014
Libraries and Collections
Cedar Falls Historical Society: Archives [Call ahead for appointment]
Cedar Falls Public Library: Iowa Collection
Grout Museum, Waterloo: Library & Collections [Call ahead for appointment]
Rod Library, UNI Special Collections & UNI Museum: Local History Collections
Cedar Falls Cemeteries - Printed Records
Fairview Cemetery Index, Greenwood Cemetery Index, Hillside Cemetery Index
Newspapers (UNI Library)
Cedar Falls Gazette, 1860-1916
Cedar Falls Globe / Weekly Globe, 1889-1909
Cedar Falls Record, 1903-1983
Waterloo/Cedar Falls Daily Courier, 1859-
Newspapers.com (CF Gazette, Waterloo Daily Courier)
Websites
Cedar Falls Historical Society www.cfhistory.org
Cedar Falls Authors Festival www.cfauthorsfestival.org
Friends of Historic Cedar Falls www.facebook/FriendsOfHistoricCedarFalls
Historical Cedar Falls sites.google.com/site/historicalcedarfalls
I Grew Up in Cedar Falls www.networkedblogs.com/blog/i_grew_up_in_cedar_falls
UNI Special Collections www.library.uni.edu/collections/special-collections
Ancestry.com – census records & Waterloo / CF newspaper images [CF Public Library]
Cemetery Websites - Findagrave www.findagrave.com
Greenwood Cemetery Website www.uni.edu/connors/
Fairview & Hillside Records http://iagenweb.org/blackhawk/cemetery1r.htm#26
Documentaries/DVDs
Architectural Styles of Cedar Falls Homes, Pts. 1 & 2, Daryl Anderson, CF Cable (2012)
Cedar Falls on the Move, CF Cable – Channel 15
The Cedar River, CF Cable – Channel 15
The Flood of 2008, CF Cable – Channel 15 (2008)
History & Architecture of Cedar Falls Schools, D. Anderson & T. Connors (2014)
History & Architecture of Main Street, 1 & 2, D. Anderson & T. Connors (2013)
History & Architecture of the University of Northern Iowa, Anderson & Connors (2014)
Ice-Cutting, Robert Hardman, CF Historical Society
The Legacy of the One Room School, CF Historical Society
Books about Cedar Falls
Black Hawk County
Biographical and Historical Record of Black Hawk County, 2 vols. (1886)
John Hartman, ed., History of Black Hawk County, Iowa and its People (1915)
Historical Tour of Black Hawk County (1996) [also on the Web]
History of Black Hawk County (Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1886)
Linda McCann, Lost Black Hawk County (2011)
Cedar Falls History
Cedar Falls Tour Guide, CF Tourism & Visitors Bureau (2nd ed., 2004)
Clarence W. Baldwin, Crossroads on the Cedar (1967)
Clarence W. Baldwin, Historical Sketches (1982)
Brian C. Collins, Images of America: Cedar Falls, Iowa (1998) historic photographs
Jack Gager, Cedar Heights: a History of a Community & a Church (1990)
Herb Hake, 101 Stories of Cedar Falls (1977)
Herb Hake, Bicentennial Outlines of Cedar Falls (1974)
Kenneth Lyftogt, From Blue Mills to Columbia (1993) Civil War units, pioneer period
Linda McCann, The Cedar Valley Road (2012) Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern RR
Peter Melendy, Historical Record of Cedar Falls (1893)
Justin and Karen Nelson, The Band Played On: History of the Cedar Falls Band (1991)
Emily O’Loughlin, Memories of College Hill (2013) exhibit catalogue
Neva Radell, The Sartori Legacy (1985)
Glenda Riley, Cities on the Cedar (1988)
Cyndi Sweet, 19th Century Cedar Falls Hotels: Mischief, Murder & Immorality (2011)
Cyndi Sweet, Raising the Bar: a Survey of Cedar Falls Attorneys (2011)
Cyndi Sweet, Silver Celebration: a History of the Sturgis Falls Celebration (2000)
Mary Logan Sweet, Stone Ware in Cedar Falls (1984)
David Whitsett, Stories from Cedar Falls History: Faces, Places, Cases (2013)
UNI History
Marshall R. Beard, History of Religious Activities at Iowa State Teachers’ College (1937)
Irving Hart, The First 75 Years (c. 1951)
James Kelly & others, Tutors to Panthers: a Brief History of UNI Athletics (2012)
William C. Lang, A Century of Leadership and Service, 2 vols. (1990) history of UNI
Val Martin, Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, 1863-1876 (1983)
Clarence T. Molen, Evolution of a State Normal School into a Teachers’ College (1974)
Gerald Peterson, University of Northern Iowa (2000)
David Sands Wright, Fifty Years at the Teachers’ College (1926) early history of UNI
Cedar Falls Biographies and Memoirs
Janice Abel, Community Shapers: Conversations with Retired Women (1996)
Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in her Hand (1928) & Song of Years (1939) fiction
S.W. Barnett, Unseen Battles of the Night (1974) doctor’s memoir
Margaret McHugh Chehock, Mayor C.N. McHugh (1990)
James Hearst, My Shadow Below Me (1981) autobiography
Johnson & Sweet, Since I Started for the War (2007) [Solomon Humbert diary, letters]
Roger Leavitt, When Cedar Falls Was Young (1928) memoir
Kenneth Lyftogt, ed. Left for Dixie: the Civil War Diary of John Rath (1991)
Alice Myers, It Seems to Me (c. 1980 or later) local newspaper columns, 1975-80
Ferner Nuhn, The Ice Wagon and Other Vanished Wonders (1981)
Ferner Nuhn, William C. Nuhn: A Memo (1980)
Carol Miles Petersen, Bess Streeter Aldrich: the Dreams Are All Real (1995) biography
Leland Sage, Turning Points: an Autobiography (1990)
Mary Logan Sweet, William Sturgis: First in Cedar Falls (1981)
Luella Wright, Peter Melendy: The Mind and the Soil (1943) biography
Vopal Gowman Youngberg, Bess Streeter Aldrich Scrapbook (1989)
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