Twenty-two-year-old Montezuma II becomes ruler of the Aztec Empire  

Black slaves first arrive in the New World when Spanish settlers bring them to Hispaniola

Christopher Columbus begins his fourth and final voyage  

Iowa first seen, Mississippi explored, taken for France  

Louisiana, including Iowa, ceded by France to Spain  

United States bought Louisiana from Napoleon  

Indiana territory established to include what is now Iowa  

Louisiana territory organized, with St. Louis as the capital

Iowa became a part of Missouri territory 

Iowa left out when Missouri became state

Thomas and Sarah Kelsey Ewart emigrated from Ireland to Ohio

Iowa attached to Michigan territory; two counties were formed

Iowa became a territory July 4

Matt Ewart born in Morrow County, OH

Poweshiek County established

Robert Ewart born in Ohio near Sparta in Morrow County. 

Iowa became 29th state on December 28.  

Original Entry Cottage Hill Farm. June 6, 1854

New Constitution adopted; Poweshiek County planned out  

Pleasant Township formed March 1

L. H. Harris settles in Ewart, engaging himself in the drug-pharmacy business  

Three Ewart brothers, Matt, Robert, and Robinson, arrived from Ohio to settle in Poweshiek County  

Emancipation Proclamation  

Matthew and Robert Ewart came to Poweshiek County. (Obituary for Matt Ewart)

Quaker Oats Company chooses Ewart for the land site.  Ewart family declines to sell the land to them.

First building (besides the Ewart mansion) a residence, built by L. H. Harris, the pharmacist

Grinnell-Montezuma Railroad built in the fall.

By December the community takes on the name of Ewart.

Town of Ewart was platted in 1875 by three Ewart brothers: Robert, Matthew, and Robinson.

The first store, a general store, erected in the spring of by A. B. Woods; ten charter members start the Presbyterian Church, meeting in the depot of the railroad.

George T. Burns, a shoemaker, arrives in Ewart

First doctor, W. B. Cotton arrived in Ewart on May 23

History of Poweshiek County of Iowa published

Railroad ran two trains each way, every weekday

Presbyterian Church erected in the summer

Ewart Population:  706

Redistrict of the township to accommodate the growing number of students  

Township electors were asked for $800 for a schoolhouse; voted “NO”  

Schoolhouse project approved

First electric lights go on in Montezuma

Listing for Ewart, Grinnell, Montezuma, and the Grinnell/Montezuma Junction in cities of Iowa  

City	Population	County	Area of state	Has a Post Office	Has Railroad	Has Express Office
Ewart	29	Poweshiek	Central	YES	YES	YES
Montezuma	1062	Poweshiek	Central	YES	YES	YES
Grinnell	3332	Poweshiek	Central	YES	YES	YES
Grinnell & Montezuma Junction	No Data   Available	Poweshiek	Central	NO	YES	NO

Assessor Davis of Pleasant Township, get small pox at Ewart. (See write up in the newspaper section.)

President William McKinley is assassinated at the World's Fair. Theodore Roosevelt becomes president at age 42  

The Presbyterian Church destroyed by fire. The most famous of all dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, discovered in Hell Creek, Montana

Wright brothers make their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

The first flat-disk phonograph is introduced, replacing wax cylinders as the most popular form of recorded music

Albert Einstein develops theory about the relationship of mass and energy:  E=MC²

September 12, 1905 Robert Ewart died

A great earthquake hits San Francisco. 2,500 people die

Henry Ford develops the first Model T automobile, which sells for $850

World War I breaks out in Europe

March 11, 1916 Billy Robinson’s airplane crashed; Billy sadly perished. The seat of the airplane landed on the porch of the LADELY farmhouse

Prohibition

July 18, 1921 Matthew Ewart passed away

The Ewart mansion burned on a chilly evening in May  

On Wall Street, the stock market crashes on October 29; Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming

End of Prohibition

"The Star Spangled Banner,'' becomes the American national anthem

Reformed alcoholic Bill Wilson founds Alcoholics Anonymous -- anonymously

Ball games were discontinued in Ewart

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

Soviet Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space; Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fail

President John F. Kennedy assassinated; Zip codes implemented

American Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon. Birth of the Internet

The WWW Revolution truly begins

Ted Turner delivers programming nationwide by satellite

The IBM PC

Cellular phone network  

U.S. government privatizes Internet management  

Terrorists' bombing of World Trade Center on September 11th