July 7, 2013: The backside of the “Vitame Vas do Chelsea” welcome sign is friendly, too. The white pickup can turn right on V18 or go straight ahead on the Lincoln Highway.
Chelsea, the often-flood-beleaguered Tama County stop on the Lincoln Highway, celebrated its 150th anniversary last weekend. Joyce Wiese wrote up the town’s history for the Tama and Toledo papers.
The school building in town didn’t quite make it a century. The article notes it was erected in 1903-04 and torn down (burned, actually) in 2009 after having been part of the South Tama school district for decades.