Scott County

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The Quad Cities are Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Moline, Rock Island, and East Moline, Illinois. William "Buffalo Bill" Cody was born on a farm near Le Claire in 1846. Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, actress Sue Lyon, and NFL star Roger Craig were born in Davenport. D.D. Palmer founded the Palmer School of Chiropractic, the world's first, in Davenport in 1897.

Figge, as in Figge Art Museum, is pronounced FIG-ee.

Buffalo Bill and River Bandits.

Baseball, Modern Woodmen Park.

How can there be five Quad Cities?

Wapsi River, Winfield Scott.


Roger Craig and D.D. Palmer.

Lots of floods and lots of hills.

Moline's just across the river.

Chiropractic cures your ills.


Young Sue Lyon played Lolita.

Davenport has Figge Art.

Beiderbecke he played the cornet,

Not too far from Bettendorf.


Adler Theater, movie palace.

Skybridge goes across a street.

Don't forget to see The Village,

If you're in the mood to eat.