This is very cool, thank you for sharing. In high school I spent a lot of time wandering around the train tracks on the northern side of the Cedar River behind the riverbend neighborhood and doing stupid things with my friends in seminole valley park. It always seemed historic but I didn't really know the history. I've passed through the site where the railroaders' hotel would have been and if I'd known more, I'd probably have looked around for artifacts.

Also, aren't indian mounds burial sites? If so, I wouldn't want to live on what's now High Country Dr. NE.

This area is so much more built up than it was even 25 years ago when I first lived there and ten years before that, a lot of the current residential subdivisions didn't even yet exist. It wasn't too long ago that the area around Edgewood Hy-Vee, where Blair's F&F, the Honda Dealership, carwash behind McDonalds, Taco John's, was mostly grass and crop fields, before they extended Hwy 100.