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| Vacation time, with a visit to the Mississippi River in Iowa. |
| The Pearl Button is a good reference to the button industry that made this town. |
| A local switch engine came rumbling through. |
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Ellie's Tea Shop
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| A Mississippi Kraken takes over downtown Mucatine, Iowa. |
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A tall Mark Twain figure from a parade.
| The local museum is downtown and has a great history of the clam shell button industry that grew in Muscatine. |
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By the river bank is a large statue of a clammer and a rake.
When the Mississippi floods bad,
the water comes up to the boat that he is standing in.
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Link back to my index page, Bruce's RailRoad Pictures
( the index page is now on the TrainWeb site, as of January 2011. And I will have to also keep the Next Generation index up-to-date also )
This page wrote in June 2011
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