Men who worked on Iowa State Capitol Building
This file appears in: History of the Rowat Cut Stone Co.
Photograph of men standing around large slabs of stone. All men unidentified except one. Caption: Picture shows some of the men who worked on the Iowa State Capitol Building. Arrow points to John Rowat.
This file appears in: History of the Rowat Cut Stone Co.
History of the Rowat Cut Stone Co.
A history of the Rowat Cut Stone Company should begin many years back. In fact, in 1850 a boy was born into a large family in Kilmarnock, Scotland. This boy started to learn to be a stonecutter at the age of 14 and just after he was 21 years old he…