Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Muscatine, IA

Muscatine is the county seat of Muscatine County, Iowa, a Mississippi River city nicknamed the 'Pearl of the Mississippi' that is also nearly as well known as a 'Watermelon Capital of the World.'

Muscatine began as a trading post founded by representatives of Colonel George Davenport in 1833 and was incorporated as Bloomington in 1839.

The town's name was changed from Bloomington to Muscatine on June 7, 1849, to reduce mail-delivery confusion with the Midwest's other Bloomingtons - and no other community in the United States uses the name Muscatine.

The 2020 census counted 23,797 people in Muscatine, making it Iowa's 22nd-largest city, living in 9,623 households and 5,960 families.

Muscatine was once the 'Pearl Button Capital of the World' - J. F. Boepple founded a pearl button company there in 1884, punching buttons from freshwater mussel shells harvested from the Mississippi River, and by 1915 Weber & Sons was the world's largest producer of fancy freshwater pearl buttons.

Mark Twain lived in Muscatine briefly in the summer of 1855 while working at the Muscatine Journal - a newspaper established in 1840 and partly owned by his brother Orion Clemens - and he later praised Muscatine's summer sunsets in Life on the Mississippi as the finest he had seen on either side of the ocean.

Muscatine civil rights leader Alexander Clark won a landmark 1868 lawsuit that desegregated Iowa's public schools after his daughter Susan was turned away from her neighborhood school, and in 1890 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him U.S. ambassador to Liberia.

Muscatine's riverfront parks include Riverside Park and Weed Park with its aquatic center, plus Kent Stein Park, Discovery Park and the Mark Twain Scenic Overlook.

Muscatine is home to Muscatine Community College and to Muscatine High School, whose teams are the Muskies.

Muscatine is the world headquarters of the HNI Corporation, the office-furniture maker behind the HON Company and Allsteel brands, and its Bayer plant supplied about 70% of North America's Roundup as of 2024.