Prospect Terrace Park and District

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Prospect Park is part of the 23-acre Prospect Park Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Nearby on September 28, 1836, nineteen American Indian elders signed the “Treaty with the Sac and Fox Indians” which transferred this territory to the U.S. Government. It opened the first legal land grant program west of the Mississippi and north of the state of Missouri. Noted artist and author George Catlin served as a witness to the treaty. He sketched some of the 1,000 Native people encamped in this area. The historic district is significant as an 1890s residential area that was developed with a public park as a principal feature. Most of the land was sold to and platted in 1894 by the Prospect Park Company. Four acres were sold to the Davenport Board of Parks Commissioners. The remainder of the land was then available for lots for the city’s elite and recognized for its exceptional architecture. In 1896, the first three homes were built.

Erected by the Friends of Prospect Park and The State Historical Society of Iowa with the funding support from The William G. Pomeroy Foundation. 2023