Term 3-Stone City

Stone City

Growing up in an outskirt of Anamosa, I lived extremely close to the Stone City General Store Pub. A restaurant and pub in an old stone building, Stone City is an older city famous for their Weber Stone Rock Quarry. There are many old buildings with much history. Water Towers, Churches, Buildings, Mansions, Horse Shoe Factories, and so much more. It has much history, and I was able to learn about it while I lived there. My family owned the much of these buildings before my parents got a divorce, my mom turned the water tower into a store. The water tower was a very small two story building on the top of a hill, it had stairs that were only one foot wide and wrapped around a pole to reach the second floor. The first floor had a kitchen that was about 4 ft by 6 foot. An open circular area that was only about 15 feet in diameter. Upstairs was a bathroom not much larger than the kitchen, and a small square room, it very close to The Grant Wood building, and a church.  A mansion used to be within 50 yards of this tower, but was burnt down unfortunately.
The General Store was recently remodeled and they added on more room, it used to be a three story building, with two decks. Upstairs was an apartment, the main floor, had a hallway, one of the decks, large bar and stage with a lot of seating room, and downstairs, was a kitchen, a bar, seating room, back room to the kitchen, a walk in freezer, and the other deck. This building was many entirely out of stone, and wood, and sits right upon the river, so there are many snake visitors, one had EARL written on it by the employees. During the flood in 2008, the General Store was very lucky they were able to stay open, the downstairs only flooded slightly, the deck was covered, and the water was only started to come in through the deck door and the windows.