Places to Visit
While visiting the area, we invite you to experience the rich history and strong traditions set forth by the founder himself.
John Deere Historic Site
Send yourself back in time to where John Deere established his first blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois. Take a stroll through his restored home or visit the gift shop and experience history for yourself.
John Deere Pavillion
Send yourself back in time to where John Deere established his first blacksmith shop in Grand Detour, Illinois. Take a stroll through his restored home or visit the gift shop and experience history for yourself.
John Deere Store
Adjacent to the John Deere Pavilion, the John Deere Store is a one-of-a-kind specialty retail shop with a variety of unique John Deere merchandise.
Historic Homes and Gardens
The Deere-Wiman House and the Butterworth Home are two majestic mansions built in the late 1800s by Charles Deere, son of John Deere. Both homes and their beautiful gardens are located within walking distance of each other, and guided tours are available.
Deere & Company World Headquarters
The Deere & Company World Headquarters is home to the corporate offices, and includes a display floor where current and historical John Deere products are showcased. Located on 1,400 acres of beautifully kept land, the grounds are home to a variety of wildlife including several white tail deer, ducks, geese, and swans.
TPC at Deere Run
The Tournament Players Club at Deere Run is home of the annual PGA John Deere Classic. Designed by PGA tour member and three-time Classic Champion D.A. Weibring, together with PGA Tour Design Services, Inc., the course was built to comply with the stringent environmental requirements of Audubon International's Cooperative Sanctuary Program.
Check out the local John Deere attractions at http://www.deere.com/en_US/attractions/index.html.
Deere & Company, founded in 1837 (collectively called John Deere), has grown from a one-man blacksmith shop into a corporation that today does business around the world and employs approximately 56,000 people. The company continues to be guided, as it has been since its beginning, by the core values exhibited by its founder: integrity, quality, commitment and innovation.
How We're Organized
John Deere consists of four major business segments (agricultural equipment, commercial & consumer equipment, construction & forestry and credit). Those segments, along with the support operations of parts and power systems, are focused on helping customers be more productive as they help to improve the quality of life for people around the world.
- Agricultural Equipment — John Deere is the world's leading manufacturer of farm equipment. The company offers a complete line of farming services and solutions with products primarily sold and serviced through the industry's premier dealer network.
- Commercial & Consumer Equipment — John Deere produces and markets North America's broadest line of lawn and garden tractors, mowers, golf course equipment, and other outdoor power products. John Deere Landscapes provides irrigation equipment and nursery supplies to landscape-service professionals across the United States.
- Construction & Forestry — The company is the world's leading manufacturer of forestry equipment and is a major manufacturer of construction equipment in North America.
- Credit — John Deere Credit is one of the largest equipment finance companies in the United States and has operations in 17 countries. In addition to providing retail, wholesale and lease financing to help facilitate the sale of John Deere agricultural, construction and forestry, and commercial and consumer equipment, John Deere Credit also offers revolving credit, operating loans to farmers, financing for agribusinesses, crop insurance (as a Managing General Agent — MGA) and, debt and equity financing and project management expertise within the wind energy arena.
Please contact us at Super 8 Moline directly at 309-797-5580 for special John Deere Rates!
