Cerro Gordo County Essays

  • Mason City Municipal Airport History

    726 Words  | 2 Pages

    everything changed, commercial flight itself, and it’s got some extra cool stuff hidden throughout its time. How the airport came to be established was quite a roller coaster. First, an inventor Floyd Barlow of Clear Lake made the first Cerro Gordo county resident round-trip flight from CL to MC in 1913. Then, according to the Mason City Airport Commission, later in 1926 a group of men brought the idea of building an airport to Commerce. The interest rate of building it was up and down. It

  • Descriptive Essay About Grandparents

    741 Words  | 2 Pages

    When people get asked who you look up to I think everybody always has that one person in mind. I actually think of two people, my grandparents. My grandparent’s names are Edward and Lorena Gaffney. Edward, my grandpa used to work for Cerro Gordo County as a secondary road worker but now is retired. Lorena, my grandma is a preschool teacher aid at West Fork Elementary in Rockwell, Iowa. They live on an acreage in Swaledale, Iowa which is a small town of 164 people. My grandparents had four kids, Terra