William Penn University is a private university in Oskaloosa, Iowa. It was founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1873 as Penn College. In 1933, the name was changed to William Penn College, and finally to William Penn University in 2000.
Spencer Memorial Chapel (1923)
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census.
The Mahaska County Courthouse
East side of public square, 1864
The Sam Smith coal mine in 1895, located in what is now the 1300 block of High Avenue West.
Theodore Roosevelt campaigns in the Oskaloosa city square in the fall of 1912.