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Moline

Industrial city in northwest Illinois, USA, at the junction of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, 288 km/179 mi west of Chicago; population (2000) 43,800. It is the commercial hub of an agricultural area producing cereals and livestock. Farm implements, machinery, and furniture are manufactured. The city was laid out in 1843, and was formerly a centre for plough-making.

The city is home to the Deere and Company agricultural implement company, the largest farm manufacturing concern in the world, employing more than 10,000 people in the area.

Moline is part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area, which also includes Rock Island in Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.



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And there beyond I see the red and silver of the Worsleys of Apuldercombe, who like myself are of Hampshire lineage, Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.
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