Center Point Historical Society

05/16/2026

Iowa politicians aren’t the only ones who do 99 county tours. Eastern Iowa writer and runner Tyler Sullivan is visiting all the counties and (almost) all the towns, and then sharing all his adventures with all of us.

He’ll do a free slide show about his Iowa explorations on Sunday, June 7, at 2 p.m. at the Center Point Depot Museum, 700 East Washington St. Check out his page - Iowa Scenic Views By Foot

04/27/2026

CP HISTORICAL SOCIETY CELEBRATES FARMERS
The Center Point Historical Society Depot Museum opens for the season Sunday, May 3. This year’s theme is “Farming.”

The Museum is open, free, Sundays from 2-5, through Oct. 25. Featured displays this season include farm toys, country kitchen utensils, 4-H, draft horses, old farming photos, and farm tools.

Anyone with farming related items they’d like to loan for display or farming stories to share is eagerly invited to contact the Historical Society.

The 1850s Stait Log Cabin will also be open for the season starting May 3.

04/10/2026

Photos taken by the Iowa Scenic Views By Foot Tyler Sullivan when he visited the Depot Museum this week.

04/01/2026

The Historical Society is sponsoring a program on HENRY A. WALLACE, Pioneer Hi-Bred seed corn founder. Tom Milligan, of Amana, will be doing the re-enactment of Henry. The program will be held on Sunday, April 19, at 2:00 at the Center Point Public Library 'little room' in the basement. We Iowans owe a bunch of our routine 200-bushel-plus corn yields to fellow Iowan Henry A. Wallace (1881-1965) who started the hybrid corn revolution in the early 20th century. Wallace was also editor of Wallaces’ Farmer magazine, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in the Depression, Franklin Roosevelt’s vice president, and a Progressive Party presidential candidate in 1948. President Roosevelt once told him “You know Henry, the things you believe in are all going to come some day. Your problem is you’re just too far ahead of your time.”

03/07/2026

Check out the CPU Football Archives on our YouTube channel! More games are added each day!
Visit here: https://youtube.com/?si=hZc7dZsQYbPPtkp0

02/07/2026

The whole game in one video - Watch the Center Point Football - 1A State Championship from 1985 on the CP Historical Society YouTube Channel!

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

01/12/2026

!!!!! CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL !!!!!!!!
Sunday, February 8, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the Depot Museum, 700 E. Washington, Center Point.
This is the third year for the Center Point Historical Society free chocolate festival at the Depot Museum. And it feels like a little chocolate comfort and kind community gathering is just what we need.

The Stuelke family and Dawn Farmer and other Historical Society volunteers will offer a free chocolate fountain and delectable dippers, a hot cocoa bar, and chocolate bingo games.

Chocolate treats can be purchased from two vendors: Heather Hingtgen of Heather’s Cake Studio at Center Point and Brittany Aldrich of Big Creek Chocolates at Springville.

There will also be some new museum displays. The Historical Society theme for 2026 is farming. Admission is free. The Depot Museum is regularly open on Sunday afternoons, May through October, and by appointment.

11/24/2025

December 7th the Depot and Log Cabin will be decked out to celebrate Christmas in old fashion style. Cabin will have hot cider on the wood stove. Depot museum will have old time decorations and music playing on the old turntable. Either take the hayrack ride from Main Street or drive over. Also, you will want to take in the live nativity at Anchor Bible Church on Green Street.

11/12/2025

Hopefully everyone got to see the Northern Lights last night!

09/22/2025

Community Potluck and Program
"Grant Wood: Prairie Rebel"
Tom Milligan of TKM Productions, Amana will re-enact Iowa's most famous artist. Grant Wood will chat with the audience as if talking to an old friend. He tells us about his life and how he changed the art world forever with his work.

Please join the Center Point Historical Society and Friends of the Center Point Library on Tuesday, Oct. 7 @ 6:00 for an evening of good food and good entertainment.

We will eat at 6:00 and the program will start at 7:00. Please bring a dish to share. Drinks and table service will be provided.
We will be in the large Community Room at the Center Point Library.

YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS!!
(Mr. Milligan did a program about Ding Darling for us last year.)

09/15/2025

The Historical Society has just been given a collection of CPU Yearbooks, years 1971 - 2003. These are duplicates of ones we already have in our collection at the museum. Is there anyone out there that would like one of these?
Still left: 1971, 1972, 1983-1991, 2001, 2002