Grinnell history riddled with hard labor, spotted fever epidemic
By DAVE CONNON connon3@q.com Two alarming events, one small and one large, played out in early Grinnell. Hazelwood Cemetery, as it’s called today, was center stage for the first event. The second event took place largely off stage. Grinnell, at first, was the frontier. Settlers used muscle-taxing hard labor, sun-up to sun-down, to build shanties [...]