East Moline
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 Water tower in East Moline |
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| Location in Illinois | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1903 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Illinois | ||
| County : | Rock Island County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 30 ′ N , 90 ° 26 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 22,300 (as of 2009) | ||
| Population density : | 957.1 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 23.3 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) of which 23.3 km 2 (approx. 9 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 214 m | ||
| Postal code : | 61244 | ||
| Area code : | +1 309 | ||
| FIPS : | 17-22073 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 407677 | ||
| Website : | www.eastmoline.com | ||
East Moline is a city in Rock Island County in the northwest of the American state of Illinois . East Moline is on the east bank of the Mississippi that separates the city from the state of Iowa. East Moline forms together with the neighboring cities Rock Island and Moline as well as Davenport and Bettendorf on the other side of the river the metropolitan area Quad Cities . The nearest major city is Chicago, about 200 km away . East Moline is located at the intersection of west-east Interstate 80 and Interstate 74 to the southeast. As of 2000, East Moline had a population of around 20,000.
history
In the Mississippi is Campbell's Island , which is separated from East Moline by a narrow tributary and is now a state park. On the island, which can now be reached via a bridge, a battle between troops led by Lieutenant John Campbell and Indians led by Chief Black Hawk took place in the British-American War in 1814 , which is now remembered by a memorial. East Moline originally emerged as an industrial suburb of the cities of Moline and Rock Island, founded in 1848 and 1835, respectively . East Moline is named after Moline to the west, whose name comes from the mills located there.
In 1856, Henry McNeal, Alonzo Nourse, and Alfred Sanders divided the area east of what is now 19th Street into parcels and established the Watertown settlement. Watertown grew only slowly and was only placed under independent management as a village in 1905 . In 1896, construction began on the Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Watertown after the county donated 400 acres to it. The buildings were built on the principles of Thomas Story Kirkbride in a neo-Gothic style, with battlements and towers on top of the main building that overlooks the Mississippi. In 1898, the Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Watertown admitted the first psychiatric patients. After several name changes (Western Hospital for the Insane, Watertown State Hospital, East Moline Mental Health Center), the facility closed in 1979. In 1980, the Illinois Department of Corrections took over the building complex and opened the East Moline Correctional Center , a minimum security correctional facility .
In 1900 the Union Malleable Iron Company began operations in East Moline with several hundred employees. In 1901, a Root & Van Dervoort gas engine factory was added. Over the next few years, other manufacturers of automobiles, agricultural machinery and scales settled in, bringing increasing employment and immigrants to East Moline. Between 1900 and 1910 the population grew from almost 300 to a good 2,600. In 1903 East Moline was officially established and received the status of a Village . In 1904 a streetcar connection connected East Moline with Moline and Watertown. In April 1907, East Moline received City status . In 1914, the residents of Watertown voted to join East Moline.
1911 was in East Moline combine harvester John Deere Harvester Works founded, which was initially housed in the old factory of Root & Van Dervoort. As early as 1912, 2,000 mower-binding machines were manufactured. In order to keep up with the growth, the company temporarily erected a circus tent on the company premises, where the final assembly took place. From 1912 a new factory area was built, which started production in 1914. In 1965 the John Deere East Moline Works complex took up 265,000 square meters.
economy
According to the number of employees, the five largest companies in East Moline in 2010 were the agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere (1,750 employees), the hospital operator Illinois Hospital (800 employees), the school district East Moline School District # 37 (393 employees), the logistics company Standard Forwarding (285 employees) Employees) and the East Moline Correctional Center (267 employees).
sons and daughters of the town
- William "Bill" Bell Jr. (1936–2017), jazz pianist, arranger and music teacher
Web links
- City of East Moline - Official Website
- Rock Island County Historical Society (RICHS) website with historical photos and newspapers
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Federal Writers' Project : Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide . AC McClurg, Chicago 1939, pp. 563-564 .
- ^ Edward Callary: Place names of Illinois . University of Illinois Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03356-8 , p. 231.
- ↑ a b City of East Moline - City History ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the city website.
- ^ A b David T. Coopman: Rock Island County . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston SC 2008, ISBN 0-7385-5239-9 , p. 22.
- ^ East Moline State Hospital at Asylum Projects
- ↑ Rod Beemer, Chester Peterson: Inside John Deere: a factory history . Voyageur Press, Osceola 1999, ISBN 0-7603-0441-6 , p. 111.
- ↑ City of East Moline (ed.): Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.2 MB) , Principal Employers table, p. 180.
