Tiffin Timeline
1803 U.S. acquires Louisiana Purchase (including Iowa)
1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition
1805 Johnson County established
1806 David & Joshua Switzer establish gristmill on Clear Creek
1807 Iowa admitted to Union
1808 State University of Iowa established
1861-1865 Civil War
1867 Tiffin platted
1868 Tiffin Post Office opens
1869 Frank Shay operates General Store
1871 Charles Darwin writes “The Descent of Man”
1872 Methodists build church in Tiffin
1903 Tiffin Savings Bank opens @ Summerhays and Third streets
1906 Tiffin incorporates town; P. R. Ford serves as mayor
1908 Henry Ford invents auto
1917 U.S. joins Allies in World War I; Panama Canal opens
1918 Iowa Primary Road Law enacted
1919 All U.S. states require elementary education
1919 First Christian Church burns
1920 19th Amendment ratified granting women the right to vote
1926 Tiffin Brick & Tile burns
1920 Tiffin M.E. Church burns
1927 Charles Lindberg flies across the Atlantic Ocean
1928 Tiffin school burns – classes held at Clarence and Tote Haman’s house
1929 Stock market crash
1932 Tiffin Savings Bank closes
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
1935 Train wreck demolished the Tiffin Depot
1935 Social Security Act provides retirement insurance for American workers
1935 First NIFFIT Fall Festival celebration
1937 Construction begins on an indoor gymnasium for the high school
1938 Congress passes Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protecting workers by mandating a minimum wage, maximum working hours and imposing limits on child labor
1939 Germany invades Poland; France and England declare war beginning WWII in Europe
1941 – 1945 Japan bombs U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor; U.S. enters WWII
1943 Tiff-Inn burns
1946 Iowa celebrates 100th anniversary
1950 U.S. becomes involved in police action to protect South Korea from invasion by North Korea
Sen. McCarthy begins anti-Communist hearings
1951 U.S. presidency restricted to eight years
1952 Tiffin establishes first Fire Station
1953 Tiffin receives dial phones; closes switchboard
1954 U.S. Supreme Court issues decision in Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, KS
1955 Transcontinental cable telephone services established; Fidel Castro overthrows the Batista regime in Cuba
1958 Space probe reveals Van Allen radiation belts around the earth
1958 Hawaii named 50th state
1961 President Kennedy establishes Peace Corps
1961 Clear Creek Community School formed from Oxford, Tiffin, Cosgrove and Madison Township districts
1962 Clear Creek High School built in Tiffin
1965 Tiffin installed town sewer system
1965 Hoover National Historic site established
1968 Tiffin installed street signs
1969 Tiffin began city water service
1976 Tiffin began refuse collection
1976 Iowa caucuses change national presidential election process
1985 Tiffin replaced 40,000 stand/pipe with 100,000 gallon tower from UI
1986 Iowa discontinues state-owned liquor stores
1995 Clear Creek and Amana school districts merge to become Clear Creek-Amana School District
2000 The Lark Supper Club burns
2001 Springmier Community Library established at Clear Creek High School (now CCA Middle School)
2006 CCA voters pass $25 million school bond to build a new high school in Tiffin and elementary school in North Liberty
2006 Tiffin Veterans’ Memorial Project erected
2006 Tiffin Centennial Anniversary held
2009 CCA opens new Clear Creek-Amana High School and moves Clear Creek-Amana Middle School from Amana to Tiffin
