Click the below links to view Ely area history of interest!
ELY
150th slide show - Historic Photos of Ely
Ely History Timeline
Ely, Then and Now, Part one
Ely, Then and Now, Part two (Historic Dows Street)
Ely becomes a town
Ely blog posts
Ely Fire Department history
Ely American Legion - St. Quentin Post 555 - history
First Presbyterian Church near Ely - history
St. John Lutheran Church, Ely - history
Ely, Shueyville & Western College - Iowa State Gazetteer 1884-1885
F.J Krob & Company - History of the company (large .pdf, allow time to load)
BIG GROVE TOWNSHIP
Facklers Grove Cemetery Prioject
WESTERN
Western blog posts
SHUEYVILLE
Memories of Elizabeth (Hall) Graham about early Shueyville
Blog posts on Shueyville
OTHER HISTORY
Blog posts about area schools
St. Peter & Paul's Catholic Church - history
The Bohemians in Johnson County, 1911, by Bohumil Simek (Shimek), .pdf file
[We who are descendants of the early Czechs from Johnson and Linn Counties in Iowa should be extremely grateful for Professor Simek’s tenacity in rooting out the Bohemian names from various old records, some of which would be virtually lost due to misspellings, alterations and the passage of time, if not for him.]
Rural Bohemian Bands of Southern Linn and Northern Johnson Counties,1910-1960, by Peter A. Drahozal, with permission (.pdf document)
Swisher Centennial history
