Camanche, IA

CAMANCHE, c. h., p. v., seat of justice of Clinton co Iowa, 60 ms. E. of Iowa city; from W. 912 ms. Watered by the Mississippi river. Pop. 454. (Fanning's, 1853)

CAMANCHE, a thriving post-village of Clinton county, Iowa, on the Mississippi river, 40 miles above Davenport. It is the shipping point for the produce of the vicinity.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

CAMANCHE is on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, five miles west of Clinton. It has three general stores, one grocery, two drug stores, one flour mill, one distillery and one brewery.  (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)