Iowa TV Schooltime - Landmarks in Iowa History - Moingona, 1959
Channel: ISU Library. SCUA. AV Collection.
Date: 04/03/2013

Host Herb Hake tells the story of how on a stormy July evening in 1881 Kate Shelley crossed the railroad bridge over the Des Moines River near Moingona, Iowa, to warn the station to stop the passenger train when the bridge over Honey Creek was washed out in a flood. This program originally aired in central Iowa as part of the Iowa TV Schooltime program. This program originally aired on WOI-TV in central Iowa in April 1959 as part of the Iowa TV Schooltime series of programming. This episode is part of the "Landmarks in Iowa History" series.