Sioux City History
Your link to the past.
Bertha Kaled
The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Bertha Kaled of the Ye Olde Tavern shares her memories of Sioux City.
Rabbi Hyman Rabinowitz
Just over a week after arriving in Sioux City, Lithuanian-born Hyman Rabinowitz was elected as the first rabbi of Shaare Zion congregation on June 2, 1925. Within two years $100,000 was raised for a synagogue on Douglas and 16th Street opening in 1927.
Cable & Street Cars
The first street railway company to operate in Sioux City was the The Sioux City Street Railway Company. The company was started by a group headed by Fred Evans, but it was bought out by James and Frank Peavey in 1888.
Trains
When Sioux City first began to grow, most people arrived by either steamboat or stagecoach. In the eastern United States, railroads were being built to connect all major cities. The first railroad to develop in Iowa was in 1865, along the Mississippi. However, plans were soon developed to expand the system to all major Iowa cities.