enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Davenport Motor Row and Industrial Historic District - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Motor_Row_and...

   Davenport licensed prostitution in 1893, gambling in 1904, and failed to enforce Iowa prohibition laws during this period. [2] A crusade against vice by Davenport's Catholic bishop, Henry Cosgrove, and reforms by state leaders led to the district's transformation in the early 20th century into a light industrial area. The city's automobile ...

3. J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.H.C._Petersen's_Sons'_Store

   Branch stores were opened in Clinton, Iowa and Geneseo, Illinois in the 1880s. The J.H.C. Petersen's Sons' Store was built in Downtown Davenport in 1892. The structure was designed by Frederick G. Clausen, a German immigrant who moved to Davenport. It followed the latest marketing principles of the day with specialized departments under one roof.

4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown ...

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of...

   This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. Downtown Davenport is defined as being all of the city south of 5th Street from Marquette Street east to the intersection of River Drive (U.S. Route 67) and East 4th Street. The locations ...

5. List of Iowa area codes - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iowa_area_codes

   319: Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Iowa City, and Cedar Falls (original area code created in 1947) 515: Des Moines, Ames, West Des Moines, Urbandale and Fort Dodge (original area code created in 1947) 563: Davenport, Dubuque, Bettendorf, Clinton, Muscatine (split from 319 in 2001) 641: Mason City, Marshalltown, Ottumwa, Tama (split from 515 in 2000)

6. Gordon–Van Tine Company Historic District - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon–Van_Tine_Company...

   A 1915 issue of Mississippi Valley Lumberman newsletter references the use of the Funk (sic) Lumber yard by Gordon-Van Tine, [12] and the January 18, 1919 issue of The Southern Lumberman, discussing the retirement of George W. Funck, discusses the ownership of the Funck Lumberyard by Davenport's U.N. Roberts lumber company (parent company to ...

7. Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Downtown...

   Davenport was founded in 1836 on land along the Mississippi River that was part of the Black Hawk Purchase, a 40-to-50-mile (64 to 80 km) tract of land in what is now eastern Iowa. [2] It was platted by land company stockholders that included George Davenport , a merchant and trader at Fort Armstrong and the city's namesake, and Antoine ...

8. 1 person hurt in Iowa mall shooting that sent people running ...

   www.aol.com/news/1-person-hurt-iowa-mall...

   Davenport Police posted a statement on Facebook that the wounded person had non-life-threatening injuries following the shooting inside NorthPark Mall in Davenport, an east-central Iowa city near ...

9. Neighborhoods of Davenport, Iowa - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhoods_of_Davenport...

   Downtown Davenport, Iowa looking across the Mississippi River from Rock Island, Illinois.. Downtown Davenport sits on the banks of the Mississippi River.Downtown is bordered on the south by the river; the east and north, by railroad tracks running on the north side along Fifth Street; and the west, by Warren Street.