DAVENPORT, the third largest city of Iowa, U.S.A., on the Mississippi river, opposite Rock Island and Moline, Ill.; the county seat of Scott county. It is on Federal highways 32 and 61, and is served by the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Clinton, Davenport and Muscatine, and the Rock Island railways, and by river steamers and barges. The area is 17.75 sq. miles. The population in 192o was 56,727 (85% native white) and was 60,751 in 193o by Federal census. Daven port has a beautiful location on the slope of a bluff, rising to an altitude of 575ft. above sea-level, and commanding extensive views of landscape and river scenery. There are 13 parks (one along the river front), covering 747ac., and including two municipal golf courses, a bathing beach, tennis courts, baseball diamonds and a zoological garden. The assessed valuation of property in 1926 was $49,703,405. On a i,000ac. island in the Mississippi, opposite the city, is the Rock Island arsenal, the largest munitions plant of the U.S. Government, representing an investment of $48,466,8o9, where 18,000 persons were employed during the World War. Davenport is an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Episcopal churches, and is the seat of St. Ambrose's college (Roman Catholic), the Palmer School of Chiropractic, and the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home. It has a large commerce, by rail and by water, shipping especially great quantities of grain; and has important manufactures, including freight cars, gondolas, ready-cut houses, flour and other cereal products, candy, bakery goods, cement, washing machines and agricultural implements. The output of its factories in 1927 was valued at Bank clearings in 2926 amounted to $4o9,646,000. Davenport was founded in 1835, under the leadership of Col. George Davenport. It was incorporated as a town in 1838 and as a city in 1851. The first bridge across the Mississippi was built at this point in