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Davenport is named after an early settler, John Davenport, who also became the first town supervisor.
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Davenport is a city located along the Mississippi River in Scott County, Iowa, United States.
Davenport is the county seat of and largest city in Scott County.
As of 2012, the mayor of Davenport is Bill Gluba.
Davenport is the largest of the Quad Cities.
Located approximately half way between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the border of Iowa and Illinois.
The Claim House ( Davenport, Iowa ) | Claim House was constructed by George L. Davenport, son of Colonel George Davenport, in 1832 or 1833 and is believed to be the oldest structure in the city.
Picture of Davenport in 1865 ; on the right is the Iowa ( steamboat ) | Steamboat Iowa, which appears in the Seal of Iowa.
Davenport is located approximately west of Chicago and east of the Iowa state capital of Des Moines.
Davenport is located on the banks of the Mississippi River and has a maximum depth of around and is wide where the Centennial Bridge crosses it.
An example of a building that is elevated or flood-proofed in Davenport is the Figge Art Museum.
Under the Köppen climate classification, Davenport is considered to have a humid continental climate ( Dfa ).
Average snowfall in Davenport is per year.
Flooding, however, is often a problem in Davenport due to the lack of a flood wall.
Duck Creek, a stream situated in Bettendorf and Davenport, is also vulnerable to flash flooding.
One of Davenport's oldest neighborhoods, the Neighborhoods of Davenport, Iowa # East neighborhoods | Village of East Davenport, is full of small specialty shops.
Also in central Davenport, the Vander Veer Park Historic District is a neighborhood anchored by Vander Veer Park, a large park with a botanical garden and a fountain.
The old Civil War parade grounds, in The Village of East Davenport (" The Village " for short ), have been turned into Lindsay Park, which is surrounded by small specialty shops.
She is most famous for her cover version of the Little Willie John hit " Fever " written by Eddie Cooley and John Davenport, to which she added her own, uncopyrighted lyrics (" Romeo loved Juliet ," " Captain Smith and Pocahontas ") and her rendition of Leiber and Stoller's " Is That All There Is ?".
The song is the only single from Teletubbies, making them a one-hit wonder in the United Kingdom, and mostly a remix of the theme song from the hit Television programme performed by the series characters written by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport.
* Stockport Lacrosse Club is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester where they still play to this day.
Davenport and named
Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire and was named for his friend, George Davenport, a colonel during the Black Hawk War stationed at nearby Fort Armstrong.
Davenport was established on May 14, 1836 by Antoine LeClaire, and named after his good friend Colonel George Davenport who was stationed at Fort Armstrong during the war.
* Edward Rogalski ( born 1942 ), 12th president of St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, named in 1987.
Davenport was first settled in 1880, and was named in 1882 for resident J. C. Davenport.
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Novotná was named the 1998 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Martina Hingis, the 1997 International Tennis Federation Doubles Team of the Year with Lindsay Davenport, the 1996 WTA Tour Doubles Team of the Year with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, with Gigi Fernández in 1991 and in 1989 and 1990 with Helena Suková.
A Puritan minister named John Davenport led his flock from exile in the Netherlands back to England and finally to America in the spring of 1637.
The Davenport family had a road named after them in 1920.
Cotton is named on a stone in King's Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts, which also names early First Church ministers John Davenport ( d. 1670 ), John Oxenbridge ( d. 1674 ) and Thomas Bridge ( d. 1713 ).
Yale University's Davenport College is named in his honor.
Haffez considered the timing of Davenport's visit to constitute a great honor, gave Davenport his finest mare, a war mare named Wadduda.
The only other match which saw the Maamria-Whitehall manager team was a 2 – 1 defeat in the FA Trophy at the hands of Salisbury before Peter Davenport, who had previously had an unbeaten spell as caretaker-manager of the club in 2001, was named as Cook's successor two weeks later.
The college was named for John Davenport, who founded Yale's home city of New Haven, Connecticut.
The road, formerly known as Davenport Road, in Glenwood, Durban has now been named after Helen Joseph under the recent Road Name Change Act which was initiated by the South African government in 2007 to rename streets which have names linked to pre-1994 colonialism.
On July 11, 1884 Father Cosgrove was named by Pope Leo XIII to replace Bishop McMullen as Bishop of Davenport.
The Boston chapter of the Robert Benchley Society is named " We've Come for the Davenport " from a reference to an incident in the life of Robert Benchley as recorded in his biography by Nathaniel Benchley.
The town of Davenport got its name when a whaling captain named John Pope Davenport settled at El Jarro Point in 1867 and built a 400 foot wharf at the mouth of the Agua Puerca Creek, also known as the Muddy Water Creek.
In 1905, an east coast cement businessman named William Dingee began the Santa Cruz Lime Company on the banks of San Vicente Creek two miles south of Davenport Landing.
** Bix 7, a 7-mile race in Davenport, Iowa, named for the above Beiderbecke
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In the early 1900s, after the rediscovery of Mendel's work, the gaps in understanding between genetics and evolutionary Darwinism led to vigorous debate among biometricians, such as Walter Weldon and Karl Pearson, and Mendelians, such as Charles Davenport, William Bateson and Wilhelm Johannsen.
The situation would soon change, as many citizens went to work for the Works Progress Administration and Davenport experienced a boom after World War II.
The establishment of Davenport as a political and government unit came in 1839, three years after the city was settled.
When his brother Burnie returned to Davenport at the end of 1918 after serving stateside during World War I, he brought with him a Victrola phonograph machine and several records, including " Tiger Rag " and " Skeleton Jangle " by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
On April 22, 1921, a month after he turned 18, Beiderbecke was arrested by two Davenport police officers on a charge brought by the father of a young girl.
Davenport then lost in the Indian Wells, California, final to Hingis, after defeating Steffi Graf, and in the Miami, she fell in the quarterfinals to Anna Kournikova.
At the year-end Chase Championships, Davenport lost to Monica Seles, after holding seven match points, her third loss to Seles, having a match point opportunity on all three occasions.
In that match, Davenport sustained a serious back injury while leading 4 – 2 ( 40 – 15 ) in the final set, although she acknowledged after the match that the injury did not cause her defeat and that Williams was the superior mentally strong player on the day.
It was Mauresmo's first win over Davenport after nine consecutive losses.
A plaque was soon after installed on the side wall of Davenport House in Cuckoo Lane, marking the spot.
Roads radiating from Toronto required users to pay at toll gates along the street ( Yonge Street, Bloor Street, Davenport Road, Kingston Road ) and disappeared after 1895.
The Massillon Iron Bridge Company was founded by Joseph Davenport in 1869 after moving to Massillon from Boston to work at the C. M. Russell & Company.
Plymouth's fourth high school building ( 1925 ), known as the Ward P. Davenport High School, was demolished after the Agnes Flood of 1972.
Col. Lemuel Davenport, who came about 1820, or soon after, acquired this property and owned and operated the mills.
Other major projects include the building of the Big Easy concert house ( now the Knitting Factory ), renovation of the historic Montvale Hotel, the Kirtland Cutter-designed Davenport Hotel ( after being vacant for over 20 years ), and the Fox Theater ( now home to the Spokane Symphony ).
The Butterfield Band's second album was East-West, released in 1966, after which Bloomfield, Arnold, and Davenport left the band.
They were soon joined by Robert's much younger adoptive brother Jude Davenport, openly despised by Ginny, Cameron and Lewis, after he had romantically pursued Jessica.
Robert Davenport had a one-night stand with Geri, after which, she accused him of rape.
At the US Open, Maria Sharapova defeated Henin in the final after Henin had defeated Lindsey Davenport in the quarterfinals and Jelena Janković in the semifinals 4 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 0.
Capriati won her first title of 2003 in New Haven after Davenport retired in the final trailing 6 – 2, 4 – 0.
Sam Simms ( Sinbad ) is a Secret Service agent assigned by his superior Wilkes ( Robert Guillaume ) to protect President Paul Davenport's ( James Naughton ) rebellious 13-year-old son Luke Davenport ( Brock Pierce ) after Luke's behavior causes another agent Woods ( Timothy Busfield ) to be replaced for mistreating Luke in front of media cameras.
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