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Encyclopedia Britannica



MUSCATINE

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 44 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
MUSCATINE , a city and the county-seat of Muscatine county, Iowa, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river (here crossed by a wagon
bridge
 ), at the
apex
  of the "
great
  bend," in the
south
 -
east
 
part
  of the state. Pop. (r89o), 11,454; (1900), 14,073, of whom 2352 were foreign-born; (1gio
census
 ) 16,178. It is served by the Chicago Milwaukee & Saint Paul, the Chicago
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific, and the Muscatine North &
South
  railways. It is built on high rocky bluffs, and is the centre of a pearl-button industry introduced in 1891 by J. F. Boepple, a German, the buttons being made from the shells of the fresh-water mussel found in the neighbourhood; and there are other manufactures. Coal is
mined
  in the vicinity, and near the city are large market-gardens, the water-melons growing on Muscatine
Island
  (below the city) and sweet potatoes being their most important products. The municipality owns and operates the waterworks. Muscatine began as a trading-post in 1833. Itwas laid out in 1836, incorporated as a town under the name of Bloomington in 1839, and first chartered as a city, under its present name, in 1851.


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