Rock Island

41º30N 90º34W, pop (2000e) 39 700. Seat of Rock Island Co, NW Illinois, USA; at junction of the Rock and Mississippi rivers; 125 km/78 mi NW of Peoria; first settled by Sauk and Fox Indians and named in 1841; Black Hawk lived here; birthplace of Gabriel Almond, Marshall Fredericks, Henry Wallace, Frederick E Weyerhaeuser; Chicago and Rock Island Railroad built the first bridge across the Mississippi (1856); agricultural machinery, timber; Hauberg Indian Museum.

Rock Island may refer to:

Islands in the United States:

Rock Island (Wisconsin) Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin) Rock Island (Rhode Island) Rock Island (Oregon)

Communities in the United States:

Rock Island, Florida Rock Island, Illinois the Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island, Oklahoma Rock Island, Tennessee Rock Island, Washington

Other:

Rock Island (album), by the band Jethro Tull the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, known as the Rock Island Line A song from Meredith Wilson's musical The Music Man

See also:

Rock Islands, Palau

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