Historic Muscatine Inc

National Pearl Button Museum | Muscatine, IA | National Pearl Button Museum @ Muscatine History and Industry Center

Explore the story of the Gold Rush of the Midwest, and learn how the unassuming button put this quiet river town on the map.
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1987
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Muscatine, IA 52761 United States
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muscatinehistory.org
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National Pearl Button Museum The Gold Rush of the Midwest In the early 1900s Muscatine Iowa was known as the Pearl Button Capital of the World. It manufactured more than 1. 5 billion motherofpearl buttons each year. The National Pearl Button Museum tells the story of the immigrantentrepreneurs the laborers the buttons and the mussels that put our town on the map.

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