On the grounds where the Ferguson school used to stand in Marshall County, a class ring was lost in 1961. The ring’s original owner and the boyfriend who lost it still got married.
Earlier this month, someone with a metal detector found it. The Marshalltown Times-Republican has the story.
In Creston, the missing pieces were a bit more substantial: the most important pieces of the 1926-89 building. The limestone engraving that said “CRESTON” had been in a pile of rubble for decades, broken into three pieces. The cornerstone had been in the weeds by the bus barn, its time capsule intact.
The Creston News Advertiser has a story about the men who found these pieces of history and restored them for display at Union County Historical Village.
In Story County, nothing has been lost, but you might be able to find your next home. The 1923 Milford Township school can be yours for $1.7 million, the Ames Tribune says. It’s on E29 two miles east of I-35 (no nosy neighbors!), closed in 1991, and was painstakingly turned into a “prairie castle” earlier this century.