Hose Station No. 7: Davenport’s Firehouse-Turned-Nightlife Hotspot
There’s a red-lit bar in Davenport’s west end pouring drinks where fire engines used to roll out, and a BBQ truck parked in the old…
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Visiting Forest Grove Schoolhouse No. 5: A Bettendorf Piece of Iowa History
Tucked away in Bettendorf, Iowa, Forest Grove Schoolhouse No. 5 is one of those places you might drive past a hundred times without knowing what’s…
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120+ Rare Trucks and Free Admission: Inside the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum
Right off I-80, next to the World’s Largest Truck Stop, sits a museum with a 1911 electric truck, a wrecker that appeared in a 1991…
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Pick Your Own Bouquet at Miss Effie’s Country Flowers Near Donahue
Turning down a gravel road toward Miss Effie’s Country Flowers feels a little like trespassing, right up until you see the sign. That’s because you…
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A Real Mummy and 250,000 Artifacts: A Day at the Putnam Museum
Some museums specialize. The Putnam Museum and Science Center does not. In a single building at the corner of 12th and Division in Davenport, you…
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Step Into an Immigrant’s Shoes at the German American Heritage Center in Davenport
The building itself is the first artifact. Long before it was a museum, this building was the Standard Hotel, a busy immigrant hotel built in…
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Grain to Glass: Touring Mississippi River Distilling Company in Le Claire
Walk up to Mississippi River Distilling Company on Cody Road in Le Claire, and your first thought probably isn’t “this is a distillery.” It looks…
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Meet the Robots Milking Cows at Cinnamon Ridge Dairy Farm
Four robots. A quarter of a million dollars apiece. That’s a million dollars in milking equipment inside one barn, and the cows are the ones…
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Visit the Figge Art Museum in Davenport During Free Admission July
Looking for a cool indoor stop during an Iowa summer road trip? The Figge Art Museum in Davenport is making that decision even easier during…
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Icestravaganza
Free, outdoor winter celebration where you can walk the trail of ice sculptures along Freight House boardwalk in Downtown Davenport, Iowa. When: Jan 16 –…
