Next to the McKee Button Company - which I believe is the last of Muscatine's button factories to be open - Muscatine is still called the Pearl City because of the pearl button industry even though plastic buttons have replaced natural buttons years ago and all of the button factories are gone. At one time there were about 300 of them |
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5/10/2011 |
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