The Quad Cities is rife with history, from the businesses that got our area up and running, to the neighborhoods where folks first settled.
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Our community, the Quad Cities, was founded around the 1830s. Prior to that, we had one of the largest Native American tribes in the area. Our area was one of the first places to develop West of the Mississippi. Consequently, this area has a rich history of pioneers, entrepreneurs, lumber barons, Civil War soldiers and their families. Our folks were involved with both sides of prohibition, gangsters, as well as a community pride in doing our part to help in the First and Second World Wars.
Dred Scott, Blackhawk, John Deere and Bix Beiderbecke lived here. The first railroad crossing on the Mississippi was here and Abraham Lincoln fought the legal case when that bridge was blown up. We had gangsters, prostitution and lots of new age music come out of here and we were successful in moving past that era. We are where agricultural machinery was king, lumber barons set-up roots and where innovators were born. Our history strongly reflects the greater history of how our country has grown since its founding and its one of the few places where many of these memories still hold dominion.
Over the past decade, a number of these buildings and memories have been torn down and destroyed. Rachel and Natalie have come to realize part of this is really because these treasures are not recognized for their place in history and why that is significant.
