Issue Area Two: How Do We Resolve the Separateness of Cedar Falls and Waterloo Created by Diversity?
Document Type
Issue Area Two
Abstract
A situation analysis of this issue requires a brief historical review and a historical perspective before we can suggest resolutions and before we can hope to develop pathways to understanding and action.
Cedar Falls and Waterloo were established at about the same time in the mid-1800s very near the same place along the Cedar River in Northeast Iowa. People were drawn here by the rich agricultural soils. Early competition between the towns was resolved by a vote that established Waterloo as the county seat. At the time, Waterloo was the slightly newer and slightly smaller community.
The coming of the railroad before the Civil War and the subsequent competition for the local railroad terminal, won by Waterloo, was key to the early rapid growth of Waterloo. The three railroads that had Waterloo as a hub provided incentive for a packing house (Rath) to be built. With the building of a tractor manufacturing facility, the establishing of Waterloo as an industrial community was assured less than 50 years after the first train crossed over the Mississippi River.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
7
Issue
1
First Page
31
Last Page
34
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1997 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Stachovic, Ed
(1997)
"Issue Area Two: How Do We Resolve the Separateness of Cedar Falls and Waterloo Created by Diversity?,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol7/iss1/13
