History: When David B. Sears arrived in Rock Island Mills in 1836, there were three houses. He brought his family and household effects, and he purchased from Michael Bartlett for $1,600 a strip of land opposite the island of Rock Island, beginning about First Street in Moline and extending along the Mississippi to about the present 15th Street. By 1838, David Sears owned title to 1,160 acres...
The City of Moline is located in the heart of the Midwest, nestled between the banks of the Mississippi and Rock River in Rock Island County, Illinois. Home to 43,768 people, Moline is one of four cities making up the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area of over 350,000 people residing in Moline and Rock Island, Illinois and Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa.
Moline is located approximately 165...