Upcoming Meeting Information

The spring Iowa Mayflower Society meeting will be held May 4, 2024.  Details will be made available as we get closer to that date. 

We hope you’ll be able to attend.

Past Meeting Information

The Iowa Compact Day meeting was held Saturday, November 4, 2023, at the Machine Shed Restaurant in Urbandale.  Guest speaker Kate Levasseur has researched the lives of some of the famous and not-so-famous residents of two of Central Iowa’s historic cemeteries - Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines, and the Jordan Cemetery in West Des Moines. Ms. Levasseur told stories of Civil War soldiers, groundbreaking female activists and those who were part of the fight for freedom as part of the Underground Railroad in her presentation titled "Tombstones & Tales of Woodland & Jordan Cemeteries.