East Moline, Illinois
Rock Iceland County
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East Moline is a city in Iceland skirt County in the northwest of the American state of Illinois. East Moline is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, which separates the city from the state of Iowa. East Moline, together with the neighboring cities rock Iceland and Moline and Davenport and Bettendorf on the other side of the river the metropolitan Quad Cities. The nearest large town is the Chicago about 200 km away. East Moline is located at the intersection of east-west Interstate 80 and Interstate 74 to the southeast. East Moline had to stand in 2000 more than 20,000 inhabitants.
History
In Mississippi is separated by a narrow Besides the running of East Moline island Campbell's Iceland, which is a state park today. On the day over a bridge to reach the island a battle between troops under the command of Lieutenant John Campbell and Indians under the leadership of Chief Black Hawk was held in 1814 in British -American War, recalls the day a monument. East Moline was originally coined as industrial suburb which was founded in 1848 and 1835 Cities Moline and rock Iceland. After Lying west Moline, whose name comes from the mills located there, East Moline is named.
1856 shared Henry McNeal, Alonzo Nourse and Alfred Sanders, the area east of the present 19th Street in parcels on, and founded the settlement of Watertown. Watertown grew slowly, and was discovered only in 1905 as a Village under independent management. Began in 1896 in Watertown, the construction of the Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane after the County had it donated 400 acres. The buildings were constructed according to the principles of Thomas Story Kirkbride in neo-Gothic style, with battlements and towers on the main building, which overlooks the Mississippi River. 1898 took over the Western Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Watertown on the first psychiatric patients. After several name changes ( Western Hospital for the Insane, Watertown State Hospital, East Moline Mental Health Center ), the facility was closed in 1979. In 1980, the Illinois Department of Corrections and the building complex opened in the East Moline Correctional Center, a prison the minimum security level Security.
1900 took place in East Moline, the Union Malleable Iron Company with several hundred employees to operate on. 1901 was a gas engine factory from Root & Van Dervoort it. Over the next few years, other manufacturers of motor vehicles, agricultural machinery and scales settled that brought increased employment and immigrants to East Moline. Between 1900 and 1910 the population grew from just under 300 to just over 2,600 inhabitants. 1903 East Moline was officially established and received the status of Village. 1904 joined a tram connection with East Moline Moline and Watertown. In April 1907 East Moline was given the status of a City. 1914 voted the inhabitants of Watertown for connection to East Moline.
In 1911, the factory John Deere Harvester Works ( John Deere combine harvester factory ) was founded in East Moline, which was initially housed in the old factory of Root & Van Dervoort. Already 1912 2.000 mowing binding machines were produced. To keep up with growth, the company has constructed temporarily a circus tent on the premises, where the event was the final assembly. From 1912 a new factory building was constructed in 1914 started production. In 1965, the factory complex John Deere East Moline Works a 265,000 m².
Economy
By number of employees, the five largest companies in East Moline agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere ( 1,750 employees), the hospital operator Illini Hospital ( 800 employees), the school district East Moline School District # 37 ( 393 employees), the logistics company had 2010 Standard Forwarding ( 285 employees) and correctional East Moline correctional Center (267 employees).