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This paper was presented to the City of Davenport Board of Commissioners the night of Monday, June 1, 2026.

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After working three years at the Davenport Historical Society and years of research and writing about Davenport via my blog, I have come to a different interpretation of the City of Davenport’s history than the one being told. I found in my research that some of Davenport’s history hasn’t been well-documented, and one big part of our history apparently completely missed. I call it Davenport’s Missing Letter B.