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DAVENPORT

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 853 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DAVENPORT , a city and the county seat of Scott county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river, opposite
Rock
 
Island
 , Illinois, with which it is connected by two fine bridges and by a ferry. It is the third largest city in the state. Pop. (1890) 26,872; (1900) 35,254, including 8479 foreign-born (6111 German), and 19,230 of foreign parentage (13,294 German); (1905, state census) 39,797; (1910) 43,028. Davenport is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific, the Iowa & Illinois (interurban), and the Davenport, Rock Island & North Western railways; opposite the city is the western terminus of the Illinois and Mississippi, or Hennepin, Canal (which connects the Mississippi and Illinois rivers). Davenport lies on the slope of a bluff affording extensive views of landscape and river scenery. In the city are an excellent public library, an
Academy
  of Sciences, several turn-halls and other German social organizations, the Iowa soldiers' orphans'
home
 , Brown business college, and several
minor
  Roman Catholic institutions. Davenport is an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic and the
Protestant
  Episcopal churches. The city has a large commerce,and trade by water and rail in coal and grain, which are produced in the vicinity, is of
special
  importance. With Rock Island and Moline it forms one
great
  commercial unit. Among Davenport's manufactures are the products of foundries and machine shops, and of flouring, grist and planing mills; glucose syrup and products; locomotives, steel cars and car parts, washing machines, waggons, carriages, agricultural implements, buttons,
macaroni
 , crackers and brooms. The value of the total factory product for 1905 was $13,695,978, an increase of 38'7% over that of 'goo. Davenport was founded in 1835, under the leadership of Colonel George Davenport; it was incorporated as a town in 1838, and was chartered as a city in 1851.


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