Ealry Settler of Charlston.

Early settler and credited with naming St. Charles. 

Moline Malleable Iron Company was established in 1869 and originally consisted of a foundry which manufactured castings for thousands of manufacturers in various branches of iron work and power transmission for elevating and conveying machines, elevator buckets, and chains. Moline consumed 4,000 tons of pure pig iron annually which translated into thousands of finished products around the world.

In  the  early  days  before refrigeration,   ice  was essential  to  keeping  food fresh  and  dairy  products cold. Each winter, when the river had frozen over to at least  12  inches  thick,  men would go out and saw blocks of  ice,  raise  them  with  a pulley on large chutes, and slide them to the ice houses where  it  would  be  packed with sawdust for summer

St.  Charles’  first  motorized  fire  truck,      a  DeKalb  motor  truck  made  in  DeKalb,      IL.  The  DeKalb  truck  replaced  previous firefighting  equipment  carried  on  wagons