Davenport, Iowa, USA
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 the upper rapids, about 335 miles above St. Louis. It is 70 miles (direct) S. of Dubuque, and 183 miles by railroad W. by S. of Chicago. It is the S. terminus of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail road, and is on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Other railroads terminating on the E. bank of the river connect it at the city of Rock Island with the Eastern cities. It is built partly on the slope and top of a bluff, which is moderately steep, and commands extensive and beautiful views of the river and Rock Island. This island, which belongs to the United States and is the site of a United States arsenal and military headquarters, is about 3 miles long, and is diversified with beautiful scenery, and embellished with several costly structures built by the Federal government. A grand wrought-iron bridge, for railroad trains and other carriages, has recently been constructed from Davenport to this island, which forms a beautiful public park. This bridge is said to have cost $1,000,000. Davenport contains a court-house, a city hall, a handsome opera-house, about 28 churches, 3 or 4 national banks, a high school, a normal school, a convent, the Academy of the Immaculate Conception, the Catholic Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, the Davenport Library, Griswold College (Protestant Episcopal), which was founded in 1859, and a well-endowed Catholic hospital, besides extensive manufactures of farming-implements, carriages, woollen goods, furniture, lumber, flour, &c. Four weekly and 5 daily newspapers (one of which is German) are published here. Large quantities of grain are shipped here. Pop. in 1890,26,873; of Davenport township, 2303 additional.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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