Road Trip Through History
Rock Island Arsenal, Pt 2 Taming the Mississippi
As so often happens on our road trips, our visit to the Mississippi River Visitor Center at Lock and Dam 15 on Arsenal Island turned out to be much more than we expected. We went to the center expecting to see exhibits on the flora and fauna of this stage of the river, the general…
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Rock Island Arsenal, Part 1: Colonel Davenport’s House, and a Couple of Long Digressions
Visiting “Colonel” George Davenport’s house on the Rock Island Arsenal* turned out to be more interesting than I expected, in part because of our knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. And also because it turned out that “Colonel” Davenport was right at the center of things in the history of the the region. Something I also hadn’t…
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From the Archives: The So-Called Black Hawk Wars
Normally when one of my posts refers to circumstances that I wrote about in the past, I simply put a hot link in the new post referring any readers who are interested back to the old post, with no assurance that anyone other than My Own True Love will click through. But the Black Hawk…
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