Hamlin
Garland
The marker was
placed by the Lucretia Deering
Chapter NSDAR in 1931. It is located
in Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, on
the Old Cedar Valley Seminary
building.
History: Hamlin Garland, a Pulitzer
prize winning novelist was a student
here in 1876-1881. He received his
first literary inspiration here from
which he produced his early fiction,
poems, and Middle Border Chronicles.
The marker is inscribed:
Hamlin Garland
As a student here - 1876-1881 -
Received
his first literary inspiration, and
from
this environment came much of the
material for his early fiction, his
poems, and Middle Border chronicle
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The
Dragoons – Mitchell County
The marker was
placed by the Lucretia Deering
Chapter and the Iowa Society DAR in
1938. Located in Mitchell County,
one mile north of Osage on US
Highway 218, the plaque was affixed
to a small boulder located on the
northwest corner of the intersection
of US Highway 218 and 370th Street.
The marker is inscribed:
The Dragoon
Trail
Blazed in 1835
by the 1st U.S. Dragoons
under
Colonel Stephen W. Kearney
marked by the
Iowa Daughters of the
American Revolution
1938
Erected August 27, 1938.
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