Muscatine, Iowa Muscatine, Iowa City of Muscatine Muscatine County Courthouse Muscatine County Courthouse Muscatine County Muscatine Muscatine is a town/city in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.
The populace was estimated at 23,968 in 2015, an increase from 22,697 in the 2000 census. It is the governmental center of county of Muscatine County. The name Muscatine is unique in that it is not used by any other town/city in the United States. Muscatine is the principal town/city of the Muscatine Micropolitan Travel Destination (2010 census populace 54,132) as of 2011 the estimate was 54,184, which includes all of Muscatine and Louisa counties, making it the 208th-largest Micropolitan Statistical Area. The European-American town/city of Muscatine began as a trading post established by delegates of Colonel George Davenport in 1833.
Muscatine was incorporated as Bloomington in 1839; the name was changed to reduce mail bringy confusion, as there were a several Bloomingtons in the Midwest.
Before that, Muscatine had also been known as "Newburg".
The name Muscatine is believed by some to have been derived from the Mascouten Native American tribe. The Algonquian-speaking Mascoutin were driven out of Michigan in around 1642 by French and Natives, and they were believed to have been combined into the Meskwaki (Fox) and Sac tribes by the early 18th century.:66 In 1819 Muscatine Island was known as Mascoutin Island.
Major William Williams, who was visiting when the town changed its name in 1849, wrote in his journal: "Muscatine in English is Fire Island," in his list of the meanings of Sioux Indian names. Its situation on one of the great bends of the Mississippi has great commercial advantages; is the seat of justice of Muscatine County.
Downtown Muscatine at dawn, looking toward the Mississippi River From the 1840s to the Civil War, Muscatine had Iowa's biggest black community, consisting of fugitive slaves from the South and no-charge blacks who had migrated from the easterly states.
In 1863, Clark helped organize Iowa's black regiment, the 60th United States Colored Infantry (originally known as the 1st Iowa Infantry, African Descent), though an injury inhibited him from serving.
In 1868, he successfully desegregated Iowa's enhance schools by suing the Muscatine board after his daughter Susan was turned away from her neighborhood school.
He was one of four Muscatine inhabitants to be appointed as a diplomatic envoy between 1855 and 1900, a remarkable feat for a town of such small size: George Van Horne was consul at Marseilles, France amid the 1860s; Samuel Mc - Nutt served at Maracaibo, Venezuela in 1890; and Frank W.
His body was returned to the US, where he was buried in Muscatine's Greenwood Cemetery.
The University of Iowa's chapter of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) is titled for the Clarks, as a testament to the accomplishments of father and son, and their places in the history of civil rights in Iowa.
The writer Sam Clemens (better known by his pen-name Mark Twain) lived in the town/city briefly amid the summer of 1855 while working at the small-town newspaper, the Muscatine Journal, which was partly owned by his brother, Orion Clemens.
He noted some recollections of Muscatine in his book Life on the Mississippi: " The former Hotel Muscatine has recently been remodeled.
Muscatine's slogan, "Pearl of the Mississippi," refers to the days when pearl button manufacturing by the Mc - Kee Button Company was a momentous economic contributor.
From that time forward, Muscatine was known as "The Pearl Button Capital of the World".
Muscatine is nearly as well known as the "Watermelon Capital of the World". Muscatine was the home town and operating locale of the notorious broadcaster Norman G.
Muscatine was formerly a stop on the shared Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and Milwaukee Road line, but the Rock Island station no longer exists.
Muscatine was hit by an EF3 (Enhanced Fujita Scale 3) tornado on June 1, 2007, which finished or damaged areas of the city. On February 15, 2012, Vice President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping visited Muscatine.
He had previously visited in 1985 as part of a Chinese delegation to learn about American agriculture, so Muscatine was again on his agenda when he toured the USA in 2012 before becoming president.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.35 square miles (47.53 km2), of which 17.30 square miles (44.81 km2) is territory and 1.05 square miles (2.72 km2) is water. Muscatine is primarily positioned on a series of bluffs and hills at a primary west-south bend in the Mississippi River.
The "highland" region of the town is divided into three ridge-like hills by Papoose Creek and Mad Creek, each of which flow individually into the Mississippi in downtown Muscatine.
Several large working-class neighborhoods and industrialized sectors have been assembled on what is called "Muscatine Island".
This flat, sandy expanse was largely underwater when a portion of the Mississippi River followed the course of the present-day Muscatine Slough.
The hills, river, and island are all integral to the range of Muscatine's economy and housing sector.
As the city's urbanized region develops, the areas of highest altitude in the "High Prairie" crescent (between the Cedar and Mississippi Rivers) are increasingly re-appropriated from agricultural territory to suburban housing.
Positioned some 25 miles (40 km) (30 minutes) from the Quad Cities, 38 miles (61 km) (52 minutes) from Iowa City and some 68 miles (109 km) (75 minutes) from Cedar Rapids, Muscatine is the smallest link in a non-contiguous populated region which surpassed 800,000 inhabitants in the decade following the 2000 census.
As of the 2010 United States Enumeration there were 22,886 citizens , 9,008 homeholds, and 5,923 families residing in the city.
As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 22,697 citizens , 8,923 homeholds, and 6,040 families residing in the city.
Companies in Muscatine include Bridgestone Bandag, H.
Headquartered in Muscatine, The HNI Corporation designs and manufactures office furniture including chairs, filing cabinets, workstations, tables, desks and educational furniture under various brand names The HON Company, Allsteel, HBF, Artcobell, Paoli, Gunlocke, Maxon, Lamex, bpergo, and Midwest Folding Products.[third-party origin needed] and other industries in Muscatine have worked difficult to advancement air character.
The plan includes GPC, Muscatine Power & Water and Monsanto Co working together to reduce emissions. GPC has made some momentous investments in grade air character.
Gage Kent, CEO at Kent Corporation, parent to Grain Processing Corporation commented that Muscatine is his home and the home for executives, employees and their families.
Kent, who is a lifelong resident of Muscatine said the business looks forward to a long future of sharing economic, surroundingal, and improve accomplishments with Muscatine and its people. Muscatine Community Stadium and the close-by Pearl City Rugby field Muscatine History and Industry Center Muscatine Art Center, including Musser Mansion and the Stanley Gallery Former Muscatine North & South Railway Depot on the riverfront (referred to locally as the Red Brick Building) Muscatine Community School District is home to the Muscatine Muskies.
Muscatine Schools cover Muscatine, Fairport, Iowa, and Montpelier, Iowa, as well as non-urban areas of Letts, Iowa, Fruitland, Iowa, and Blue Grass, Iowa.
Muscatine is home to Muscatine Community College and the MCC Cardinals.
Muscatine Journal The Muscatine Journal journal circulates daily Monday thru Saturday throughout the Muscatine region and on their website muscatinejournal.com. Established in 1840, the Muscatine Journal was once owned by Samual Clemens' (widely known as Mark Twain) brother, Orion Clemens, and Samual Clemens wrote for the paper amid his time in Muscatine.
Voice of Muscatine The Voice of Muscatine, a printed announcement of Prairie Radio Communications, has been an operation journal since October 28, 2015.
It is a county wide publication, servicing Muscatine County, Iowa.
Prairie Radio Communications, a midwestern transmitting company, has two airways broadcasts in Muscatine.
Cumulus Broadcasting's KBEA-FM broadcasts from a fortress near 10 miles (16 km) north of Muscatine.
Residents also received radio broadcasts from stations in the Quad Cities, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Burlington, Waterloo, and Aledo, IL.
Muscatine is positioned along two designated routes of Iowa's "Commercial-Industrial Network", U.S.
Highway 61 serves as a primary agricultural-industry route to the south from Burlington, IA to Muscatine, where it becomes a heavy-industrial and primary commuter route to the northeast between Muscatine and Davenport, IA.
218/IA 27) to the west and the lightly populated Illinois via the Norbert Beckey Bridge to the east, Highway 61 serves as a shortcut for traffic from northeastern Missouri and southeastern Iowa en route to the Quad Cities, Chicago, and points beyond.
Additionally, Muscatine is connected to Interstate 80 to the north by fifteen miles (24 km) of Iowa Highway 38.
Max Allan Collins, author of screenplay of the movie Mommy, which was filmed in Muscatine's Wood Creek neighborhood in 1995.
Dame Margherita Roberti, internationally famous opera singer who spent much of her childhood in Muscatine, including graduating from Muscatine High School.
Muscatine has ten sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: "Our History" Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
"The Prosperous Industrial History of Muscatine" Greater Muscatine Chamber of Commerce & Industry, 2004.
"Terrible touchdown in Muscatine" Muscatine Journal, 2007-06-01.
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"Muscatine business announces accomplishments, plans to lessen surroundingal footprint".
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