Orientation
From the Lindsay Park Port, you can see four mansions just to the right of the Village of East Davenport. These homes and the land that trails from here to the I-74 bridge are part of McClellan Heights, a 400-acre area packed with historic homes built between 1905 and 1940.
The roads through the neighborhood follow the natural curvature of the hills, as well as the paths and roads from all the people and animals who made trails through this area long before the neighborhood existed.
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