Muscatine is a small American city in Muscatine County situated along the Mississippi River in southeastern Iowa. - AsNotedIn

If one would look up the roughest place in our county he would hardly find an equal to Bloomington [Muscatine] in 1836. It was all hills and hollows. They were largely covered with trees and brush. The town was located between them and on four hills - one of them the highest for several miles away - with two large creeks and several small duck ponds to add variety to the wilderness.