Davenport (City and county-seat of Scott)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a city and county-seat of Scott co., Ia.; on the Mississippi river and the Rock Island, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Burlington and Northern, the Davenport , Rock Island and Northwestern, and other railroads, and the Hennepin canal; 183 miles S. W. of Chicago. It is connected with Rock Island , Ill., by a railroad and carriage bridge built by the United States Government at a cost of $1,200,000. Davenport is the great grain depot of the upper Mississippi. Area, 8 square miles. Davenport is an important manufacturing center, and is situated in the heart of extensive bituminous coal fields. The chief articles of manufacture are carpets, locomotives, steel cars, carriages, agricultural implements, flour, lumber, cigars and cigarettes, and foundry and machine shop products. The Government arsenal at Rock Island is opposite the city. The city is connected by passenger and freight steamers with all important lake ports. In 1919 there were 2 National banks. The city is built at the foot of a semicircular range of hills, is well laid out, and is handsome architecturally. The streets are lighted by gas and principal ones are traversed by electric electricity and the The notable buildings include the cars. county buildings, City phans' Home, the Academy of Natural Hall, Iowa Or- Science, Mercy and St. Luke's Hospitals, and the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans', Old Ladies', and Old Men's Homes. The city has an excellent school system, the Immaculate Conception Academy, St. Ambrose Academy, Griswold College, and St. Katherine's Hall. History. Davenport was 1835 and incorporated as a city in 1851. founded in Pop. (1910) 43,028; (1920) 56,727.