Muscatine: A City with Two Histories History

Castonguay, Connor
McLaughlin, Sammy
Slaughter, Elizabeth

2013

Fall

University of Iowa. Rhetoric Department. Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning Initiative (IDEAL)

Project description by students:
Devin Pettit, the residential history buff in Muscatine, illustrated two histories in the riverfront town. Furthermore, he explained that these two histories are correlative to what the city is today.
Muscatine has been through many changes and alterations throughout its history as a city on the river. However, the technological developments that brought industry and business to the town a century ago were short-lived, but remnants of its heyday are still evidenced in the factory buildings lining the riverfront today. Our group wanted to learn more about this history. We wanted to discover the reason for the remaining remnants of the formerly great button industry.

Project:
IDEAL - Iowa Narrative Project
Course:
Rhetoric 0146
Instructor:
Matt Gilchrist

English

2010-2020

United States -- Iowa -- Muscatine

Iowa Digital Engagement and Learning (IDEAL)

Iowa Narratives Project

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Copyright © 2013 Connor Castonguay, Sammy McLaughlin, and Elizabeth Slaughter

Contact IDEAL at ideal@uiowa.edu

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