| These fences are designed to prevent people from riding bicycles across the tracks without stopping and looking for trains (being right next to a train yard, it is necessary). The building is the last pearl button factory open in Muscatine. Muscatine is known as the Pearl City due to its former prominence in manufacturing pearl buttons using Mississippi River clams (really mussels). Pollution and overfishing ended this industry - especially when several of the species were declared to be endangered or threatened species. Today, this factory makes synthetic buttons using the same methods and machinery that the natural buttons were made with |
| Date:
5/9/2008 |
Location:
Muscatine, IA Map  |
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Collection Of:
 
Zachary DeVore |
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Author: Zachary DeVore
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This picture is part of album: Muscatine - Pearl of the Mississippi |