John Deere's downtown home, circa 1901 (twenty-one years after John Deere last lived there).

John Deere moved from Grand Detour, Illinois to Moline in 1848. He built this house within the next few years, and spent the next thirty years here. It appears that several additions were made to the rear of the house. It was finally demolished in the early 1900s to make way for the Moline Post Office. Today the Post Office still stands, but as offices.

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