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The Rock Island Arsenal comprises 946 acres (383 ha) and is located on Arsenal Island, originally known as Rock Island, on the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois.
Rock Island Arsenal is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 149 at the 2010 census. [ 1 ] The island contains the Rock Island National Cemetery .
Rock Island Arsenal Museum exhibits, June 29, 2023. The Rock Island Arsenal Museum’s core exhibits explore the history of the island and the Arsenal from 1805 to the present. Visitors will discover the impact that Rock Island Arsenal has had on National Defense and the contributions of the Quad Cities to the U.S. Military. This story is told ...
Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. [2] The population was 37,108 at the 2020 census. [3] Located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, it is one of the Quad Cities along with neighboring Moline and East Moline in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.
Rock Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Rock Island Arsenal near the city of Rock Island, Illinois.Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 66 acres (27 ha), and as of the end of 2006, had 24,525 interments. [2]
The first Rock Island Bridge, constructed in the 1850s and located about 1,500 feet (460 m) upstream of the present bridge, was the first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi River. [7] It played a prominent role in the period before the American Civil War and construction of the First transcontinental railroad .
1839 painting of Fort Armstrong, six years after the removal of the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes, on the U.S. Army's, present-day Rock Island Arsenal Island, looking toward Iowa, in the background, from the Illinois side, of the Mississippi River, attributed to Octave Blair.
At that time, Rock Island was one of the country's largest arsenals and it manufactured munitions and military equipment. [2] The construction of the apartments was an emergency measure brought by the onset of World War II. [3] The arsenal was in need of more workers, but the area suffered from a housing shortage. [2]