Ames History Museum Lecture Series

Program Type:

History/Genealogy, Presentation

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Program Details

A recording of this presentation is available at https://youtu.be/yGVb6akA54g.

 

Topic: Secessionitus in West Ames: The 4th Ward 'Independence Movement,' 1914-1920

Presenter: Douglas Biggs, Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Kearney 

Join Ames History Museum and Ames Public Library for a series of online lectures.

On October 20, 1916, a petition was filed in District Court declaring the intention of residents in the area south of the Iowa State campus to separate from Ames and become a separate town. Biggs will chart the beginning rumblings of this action in 1914, the complaints leveled at city leaders about inequities in services and the resolution of this colorful chapter in local history.  

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