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Our “Special” Visitors for 2009
This year, genealogists and history researchers came from all over the country to the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, to use our wonderful resources. They came from far away to fill in the blank branches of their Family Trees. They found … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Davenport!!
On this day in 1836, the City of Davenport was platted and named. In order to understand the weight of history behind that simple sentence, one would have to look back at least to the treaty, signed on September 21, 1832, … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine LeClaire, Black Hawk War, Davenport, Iowa, Local History, Maps
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