Rural  Women
in Nodaway County

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Women have played an important part of our county's history. Look around this page to learn more about their contributions and their daily lives. 

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Highlights from Farmwives: Find recipes on how to make lye soap and beeswax candles so that you can live like early Euro-American settlers to the county.

 

Highlights from Athletes: See the different sports that some women played while attending school and compare the differences between their uniforms from the early 20th century and what female athletes wear today. 

 

Highlights from Suffragists: Women pushed for years to gain the right to vote. On this page you can learn about the local involvement in the suffrage fight, and you can even watch a piece of American history - a video of the 1913 suffrage parade, which included a band from Maryville.

 

Visit the museum to learn even more!