Resources – Grinnell Historical Museum

View a sample of objects from the museum’s collection with CatalogIt.

Learn more about Grinnell history by clicking through the resources below.

Drake Community Library
– Genealogy Resources
– Grinnell Stories Instagram
– Newspapers
– Obituaries
– Oral Histories
– Poweshiek History Preservation Project (PHPP) – a collaboration between Drake Community Library and Grinnell College Libraries
– Property Records

Digital Grinnell – Collections in the Grinnell College Libraries
Grinnell Stories Blog by Dan Kaiser, Grinnell College Professor Emeritus of History
Poweshiek County Historical & Genealogical Society – Library, Museum, and One-Room Schoolhouse (Montezuma IA)

Downtown Grinnell Walking Tour – History Pin overlays historical photos onto Google maps. There is a sliding bar along the top that will allow you to fade the photo in and out to alternate viewing the most recent Google map image and the historical photo. There is also text along the bottom that will tell you a bit about each stop along the walk!