Ottumwa Public Library

The Reminisce Society is excited to host Ottumwa’s preeminent architectural historian Molly Naumann at its April meeting. Molly will present a slide program on Ottumwa in the 1920s. During that decade, Ottumwa was a bustling city, its 23,000 people employed in a number of industries including meat packing and agricultural manufacturing, as well as such small, diverse businesses as iron works, candy making, and coal mining equipment manufacturing. Fifty-seven trains on five different railroad lines passed through Wapello County during this era. Join us as we take a trip back to the 1920s at the Reminisce Society meeting on Tuesday, April 26, at 10:00 a.m. in the library’s meeting room. You’ll be amazed to see how Ottumwa’s past continues to influence Ottumwa’s present.