A macroburst storm in 1986 will be the topic of the Allen County Historical Society’s spring meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the John Silas Bass Community Building, 505 N. Buckeye St.  The storm hit…

Recent updates to the Iola Register’s digital archives offer subscribers an even richer treasure trove of local history to explore. Thanks to a partnership with the Kansas Historical Society, the years 1965-1970 and 2001-2014 have…

Rewind a couple of decades or so to 1995. The Allen County Historical Society, under a project spearheaded by Iola attorney Clyde Toland, had raised enough money to bring the old, crumbling boyhood home of…

A crew from Coonrod & Associates has removed the Jefferson Elementary School bell from the concrete base where it has sat since 1941. It will be taken to Kentucky where it will be refurbished. The…

In early summer 1971 someone mentioned while having their hair cut by John Zahm, at his shop next to the Iola post office, they had seen some flint chippings in disturbed ground along Deer Creek…

A house has been rented to serve as a “safe house” for Hope Unlimited and the Altar Society of St. John’s Catholic Church is heading up a drive to raise funds and secure other donations…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be winding…

History depends on those who tell it. And no one tells it the same way. That’s the case with Iola’s first school bell, according to Donna Houser, a history buff who has been researching the…

HUMBOLDT —  A construction project turned into a unique history lesson this week when Humboldt High students hit upon some Civil War artifacts. Olivia Black, a building trades student, was helping with the group’s next…

The Flood of 1951 looked different from the sky. Retabess Ling and Amy Specht shared their memories of the flood at the annual meeting of the Allen County Historical Society on Friday evening. Historical society…