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Scroll Whiskey Trade Beads Territorial and Early Statehood Era 1833—Eastern Iowa open to American
Flask settlement after the Black Hawk War
1830s 1840s 1850s
Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com 1838—Iowa becomes a territory
and (the auction house) 1839—Iowa City platted

Proprietary Sprigware 1846—Iowa becomes a U.S. state
Medicines 1847—Founding of the State University of

Parasites 1860s Iowa (University of Iowa)

Lamp 1852—House built at site for the Bay family
Chimneys 1855—UI first public university in U.S. to

Bone & Seeds Railroad Era admit both male and female students
Shell 1856—First railroad to Iowa City
1870s 1880s 1857—State capital moved to Des Moines
Local Hygiene 1861–1865—American Civil War
Pharmacy 1862—Northern ½ of lot tenant occupied
1890s 1864—Southern ½ of lot owned by Dodders
Music 1867—First railroad through state

1870s—Women’s suffrage movement gains
momentum in Iowa

1880—UI Marching Band formed

1884—State-wide alcohol prohibition
(except for medicines)

1890s—Northern ½ of lot occupied by
tentants and UI students

Women’s Clothing Town and Gown Era 1900—UI enrollment up to 1,500; start of
the Graduate College
1900s 1910s
1906—Pure Food and Drugs Act enacted by
US Food and Drug Administration

1910—Southern ½ of lot tenant occupied

1910—Iowa City population reached
10,091 (not including students)

1911 & 1915—Both halves of house vacant
1914–1918—World War I
1916—Vote for women’s suffrage in Iowa

failed; approved by U.S. in 1919