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Senator Cory Booker and Representative Mark Smith
Books / Buxton / The Writing Life

Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Mark Smith Give Kudos to Author Rachelle Chase

“Hi! This is United States Senator Cory Booker with one of the great authors I know in my life, Ms. Chase, because she’s writing books about my family’s history. Not my particular family, but about Buxton, a town here in Iowa that greeted my family from poverty from Alabama that gave us promise and possibility.” […]

on February 12, 2019March 25, 2019 by Rachelle Chase
Vintage Cake Walk Postcard
Buxton / Research Finds / The Writing Life

Deltiology, the Cake Walk, and Ben Buxton’s Two-Step

I recently became a deltiologist. This new obsession is thanks to John Taylor, who introduced me to the word, and to John Taylor and John Jacobs who have shared their knowledge, fun of postcard collecting, and fascinating postcards. Both are among those who have allowed me to include their rare Buxton images in my books. […]

on January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 by Rachelle Chase
Lonnie Lawrence Dennis
Buxton / Early 1900s / People

Lonnie Lawrence Dennis: His Shocking Role in History After ‘Boy Evangelist’

“At a revival we used to have, I remember this little boy was preaching,” said Gertrude Stokes, an African American resident of Buxton, Iowa. “He used to wear a little white robe. He ran our revival and that’s when I joined the church.” The little boy was eight-year-old Lonnie Lawrence Dennis. On November 16, 1902, […]

on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 by Rachelle Chase
Buxton / News

Buxton Presentation Aired on Marshalltown Community Television

In 2017 and 2018, I traveled throughout Iowa speaking about Buxton, Iowa and why it was a coal mining town ahead of its time. Marshalltown Community Television/McTV aired my May 2018 presentation, which was held at the Marshalltown Public Library. New 2019 presentations with information from my new book, CREATING THE BLACK UTOPIA OF BUXTON, […]

on October 24, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
Buxton / People

1918-19: Black Man in Buxton, Iowa Invents Train Signal and Control Apparatus

Leroy Wright, an African American resident of Buxton, Iowa in the early 1900s stated that Jack Brookins, also African American, invented a railroad signal.   “He made a patent on the railroad trap out of a mouse trap and they tried to get people to take out shares but they wouldn’t do it but it […]

on May 14, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
A Day in Buxton / Buxton / People / Research Finds

1905: Black Author Writes Science Fiction Novel About Race

In 1906, Robert Gilbert Wells, an African American author and publisher in Buxton, Iowa ran ads soliciting agents to sell his new book, “Anthropology Applied to the American White Man and Negro.” The ad placed in the March 3, 1906 issue of the Richmond Planet provided a summary of the book:   AGENTS WANTED. To […]

on April 10, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
Lost Buxton and Rachelle Chase
Buxton / The Writing Life

13 Amazing Months for LOST BUXTON and Rachelle Chase

Buxton, Iowa—a 1900s coal mining town of 5,000 in which blacks and whites lived and worked side by side and blacks received equal pay and thrived—is an amazing story of inclusion and equality. I’m doing my part to make sure it is not forgotten. A HUGE “thank you” to everyone I have — and have […]

on April 3, 2018December 9, 2018 by Rachelle Chase
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Story of Buxton – From Muchakinock to Today

Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa
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A Pictorial History of Buxton

Lost Buxton
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About Buxton, Iowa

In 1900, at a time when Jim Crow laws, segregation, and the Ku Klux Klan kept blacks and whites separated, residents in Buxton, Iowa—a thriving coal mining town of 5,000 residents established by Consolidation Coal Company—lived, worked, and went to school side by side. African Americans—miners, teachers, business owners, doctors, lawyers, and more—made up more than half of the population for the first 10 years and remained the largest ethnic group until 1914. By 1922, Buxton was a ghost town.

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About Rachelle Chase

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Rachelle Chase is a published author and senior business analyst whose latest passion is Buxton, Iowa.
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