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A Pencil-Drawn Snapshot in Time: City Engineering Department Survey Books
Many of our blog posts in the past year have involved the Civil War period, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the event. One Civil War era primary resource in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections archives is the City of Davenport … Continue reading
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Tagged Camp Kearney, Camp McClellan, Engineering Survey Books, Native Americans, Sioux Tribes
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The Nation’s First Concentration Camp
In its almost one hundred and seventy-five years, Davenport has had many national firsts. Some of these fill us with a sense of comfortable pride. Others do not. Genealogists and local historians may know that the Quad-City area was originally … Continue reading