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  History of Davenport, Iowa, USA

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Visit Davenport, Iowa, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1854 - Davenport
  Davenport, a flourishing city, capital of Scott county, Iowa, is finely situated on the Mississippi river, at the foot of the upper rapids, opposite...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1863 - June 29 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
  
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  June 29, 1863
  
  
• 1871 - July 25 - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa
  
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  Picturesque America... Oliver Bell Bunce, William Cullen Bryant
  New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872-1874.
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•  1895 - Blizzard - THE STORM STILL HOVERS OVER THE UNITED STATES. IT IS SEVEREST IN THE EAST. TRAFFIC ALMOST ENTIRELY AT A STANDSTILL -- RAILROAD TRAINS BLOCKADED -- BUSINESS PARALYZED -- PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEVERAL PLACES...
  ...Coldest Of The Winter.
  Davenport, Ia., Feb. 9. - Last night was the coldest of the winter, a fitting climax to three weeks of as cold weather as...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Davenport
  Davenport, a flourishing city of Iowa, and the capital of Scott co., is pleasantly situated on the N. bank of the Mississippi River, at the foot of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1897 - EXPLOSION IN A SIRUP REFINERY. Causes a Fire and Loss of Life.
  Davenport, Iowa - August 19 - An explosion of dust knocked out two walls of the elevator of the Davenport Sirup Refinery to day.
  
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  So-N-Mor
  The Dress-Shield Retainers
  A. R. Reese, Davenport, Iowa
  
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  July 1898
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•  1907 - DIES UNDER CAR WHEELS.
  DAVENPORT, Iowa, March 21. - P. J. Kiley, of Boston, Mass., was run over by a train here today and killed. With his wife, he was returning to Boston...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Natatorium
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• 1916
  Davenport, a city of Iowa, the capital of Scott co., is pleasantly situated on the NW. bank of the Mississippi River, at the foot of the upper...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1922 - February 18 - WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
  
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•  1923 - 9 HURT WHEN ROLLER COASTER CARS CRASH AT DAVENPORT PARK.
  Davenport, Ia., June 18. - One person was seriously injured and eight others received minor injuries in a roller coaster accident at Forrest Park, a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Second Street, Looking West
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• 1949 - October 31 - WOC TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
  
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• 1950 - January 7 - Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
  
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