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Downtown Moline, except for modern day Third Avenue, was primarily residential until the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The wealthy industrialists who ran the manufacturing concerns along the river built their mansions below the bluffs. Charles Deere built his mansion, Overlook, on the bluff in 1872, and slowly Moline grew to the east, west and south. John Deere completed his mansion on the bluff in 1880.
Many of the homes here are now gone, though examples of some of Moline's nineteenth centurys do still exist. But Moline was not solely comprised of mansions. Also included are a number of farm houses and more modest homes from Moline's past.
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