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1816 - 1863
The year 1816 saw the United States westward expansion reaching to the Mississippi River. Still very much a frontier area, what is now the Quad Cities was primarily inhabited by the Sauk and Fox(Mesquakie) Indians. Illinois became a state in 1818. By 1863 this area was well settled by the white culture.

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