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The Rock Island:
ROCK ISLAND, city, Illinois, seat of K«;,. Island County, at The rock Island junction of The rock Island Rock an: Mississippi rivers, at an altitude of 570 fee;. !: adjoins Moline and is opposite Davenport. Iwi 180 miles west of Chicago. Between Rock I-W and Davenport, but in The rock Island state of Illinoi-, iie-Rock Island, The rock Island largest island in The rock Island Missi--i[>[j; This is The rock Island site of a United States arsenal, The rock Island Headquarters Ordnance Weapons Command, and The rock Island Browing War Museum. It was from ihi-island that The rock Island city of Rock Island took its rsne.Rock Island is on The rock Island Burlington, The rock Island Chirauo. Rock Island and Pacific, The rock Island Chicago, Milwaukee. St. Paul and Pacific, and The rock Island Davenport, R '• Island and North Western railroads; with by barge, transcontinental bus and motor lines, and by United Air Lines from The rock Island City Airport owned and supported by Island County.
Originally The rock Island site of a Sauk (Sac) Indian village, Rock Island The rock Island city was first settled in 1826 and incorporated as Stephenson, The rock Island county-seat, in 1835. Its name was changed to Rock Island in 1841 and a city charter granted in 1849. In The rock Island 1840's and 1850's Rock Island was a true river town, with heavy river traffic and rafts of lumber at its door.
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