Friday we moved from Prairie Rose State Park in Harlan, Iowa to Fisherman's Corner in Hampton, Illinois. Hampton is just across the Mississippi River from Davenport, Iowa and LeClaire, Iowa.
Our site at Fisherman's Corner - This is an Army Corps Of Engineers campground right across from a dam and lock site on the Mississippi
Part of the dam from the Illinois side - you can walk about one third of the way across the river on a jetty to get to close to the dam
The dam from the Iowa side - the locks are on the left side - you really can't see much of them in the picture
Monday we went to LeClaire, Iowa and visited Antique Archaeology, the American Pickers original store. We enjoyed going there a lot - it was interesting to see some of the items that they had picked in the shows
Their new building
The original shop
Inside the shop (Donna on the left)
This is the remains of an Indian motorcycle Mike dug out of the ground in pieces in Massachusetts I believe - he had it reassembled and mounted on a stand
This bike ran nearly 200 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats
View of both buildings
The park outside the Buffalo Bill Museum
We didn't get a lot of pictures of the Buffalo Bill memorabilia as it was mostly under glass but it was very interesting. They had an attached building that housed a complete 1860's river boat that was in service locally until the 1960's and is the only remaining wooden hull paddle boat that plied the Mississippi in existence.
Donna at the helm
Part of the stern paddle wheel and rudders
View of the boat from outside
Buffalo Bill's homestead - the house was built by Buffalo Bill's father in 1847 - it is about 10 miles from the Buffalo Bill Museum
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