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3 unusual facts about Bucktown


Bucktown

Bucktown, Davenport, an historic area in the eastern end of downtown Davenport, Iowa

Bucktown, Davenport

When the Tri City Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1916, it was the twelfth in the nation but having drawn two-thirds of its membership from the Strasser Marching Band, it is debated by many as the oldest music organization in the country to have formed a symphonic orchestra.

Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.


Pennsylvania Route 100

The route continues north into South Coventry Township, meeting Pennsylvania Route 23 in the village of Bucktown.

Thalmus Rasulala

His other film roles include Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), Bucktown (1975), The Last Hard Men (1976), The Boss' Wife (1986), New Jack City (1991) and his last film role as General Afir in Mom and Dad Save the World.

The Bucktown Five

The band's name is linked with New Orleans, as Bucktown was a Chicago neighborhood, but also the name of the settlement that grew up on the shore of Lake Ponchartrain after the close of Storyville.


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