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10 unusual facts about Dubuque


1867 Manhattan, Kansas earthquake

Isolated reports from Iowa and Missouri, describing fallen and cracked plaster in Dubuque and Chillicothe, compliment additional reports of fallen plaster and roof shingles, damaged wells, and cracked walls.

Arthur Charles Lewis Brown

Although he declared himself unhurt, and wanted to remount and continue, he was carried protesting to a Dubuque hospital and died a few hours later of a fractured skull.

Cessianus

The remains were placed within a side altar in the new St. Raphael's Cathedral, in Dubuque, Iowa.

David Kagan

He entered the Salvatorian Seminary in St Nazianz, and then studied philosophy at Loras College/St. Pius X Seminary in Dubuque, and Theology at the Pontifical North American College and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

George J. Fritschel

Prof. George J. Fritschel or Georg Johann Fritschel DD (1867–1941) was a German-Iowan Lutheran theologian who taught in Dubuque, Iowa.

Lonnie Zamora incident

Their story was reported in the Dubuque, Iowa Telegraph-Herald a few days later after their return.

Mount Melleray Abbey

In 1849, Dom Bruno Fitzpatrick, who had become abbot the previous year founded New Melleray Abbey, near Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.A., and, in 1878, Mount Saint Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

Snogo Snow Plow

Manufactured in 1932 by the Klauer Engineering Company of Dubuque, Iowa, the plow was actually a snowblower and featured advanced features such as an enclosed cab, four wheel drive and roll-up windows.

The Sword of the Lady

They cross the river and meet the Bossman and the rest of Rudi's party in Dubuque.

Victor Premasagar

On invitation from Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, in the United States of America, he took sabbatical from ACTC to teach there for a year.


Biblical Witness Fellowship

Members of the BWF affirm a statement of Christian faith known as the "Dubuque Declaration" (named for the Iowa city and theological seminary where it was drafted), as well as affirming the historic creeds and statements of the Protestant Reformation.

Bishop's

Bishop's Block, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dubuque County, Iowa (USA)

Bop Doo-Wopp

The other live cut, "Duke of Dubuque", was recorded for the Evening at Pops series on PBS.

Chicago Great Western Railroad

He acquired the franchise and outstanding stock of the Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad (M&NW), which had been chartered in 1854 to build a line from Lake Superior through St. Paul, Minnesota toward Dubuque, Iowa.

Culver's

Culver’s first restaurants outside the state were opened in Buffalo, Minnesota in September 1995, Roscoe Illinois in December 1995, and Dubuque, Iowa, in November 1996.

Dubuque Regional Airport

Northwest Airlines announced on February 7, 2008 that its regional partner Mesaba Airlines operating as Northwest Airlink will once again return with service to Dubuque with twice daily flights to and from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport using Saab 340 aircraft.

Edward D. Cooke

Born in Cascade, Iowa, Cooke attended the common schools, the local academy, and the high school at Dubuque.

Five Flags Center

Dubuque opened a new Ice Arena, the Mystique Ice Center, which opened in Fall of 2010, and now hosts the expansion Dubuque Fighting Saints.

It is named for the five flags that have flown over Dubuque; the Fleur de Lis of France (1673–1763), the Royal Flag of Spain (1763–1803), the Union Jack of Great Britain (1780, during a brief interruption of Spanish rule), the French Republic Flag of Napoleon (1803) & America's Stars and Stripes (1803–Present).

Fridolin Heer

Fridolin Heer Jr. studied architecture in Germany and worked in Chicago in the offices of Adler and Sullivan before returning to Dubuque to work with his father.

HMLA-267

The USS Dubuque was part of the Joint Task Force in the Persian Gulf and Operation Earnest Will.

Illinois Service

A new line, the Black Hawk to Dubuque, Iowa via Rockford, Freeport and Galena, based on a former service to Dubuque that ran from 1974 to 1981

Iowa Highway 1

This road, authorized by President Martin Van Buren in 1839, was known as Dillon's Furrow, named after the Dubuque merchant Lyman Dillon who surveyed the route and marked it with a furrow.

Jay Douglas

He is of British descent on his father's side and of German descent on his mother's side, and was home-schooled by his parents until age 14, where he attended his first college class at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.

Jessie Taft

Jessie Taft (June 24, 1882 in Dubuque, Iowa – June 7, 1960 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania) was an early American authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption.

John George Alleman

Until 1850 the Diocese of Dubuque included all of present day Iowa, most of the state of Minnesota, and both North Dakota and South Dakota east of the Missouri River.

Joseph Crétin

For over eleven years, he exercised his priestly ministry in these new, unopened regions, dividing his time chiefly between Dubuque, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and the Winnebago Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Atkinson, in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

Julien Dubuque

In 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked forensic artist Karen T. Taylor to create a facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque.

Julius Eckhardt Raht

Raht worked for short periods in Missouri, Dubuque, Iowa, and Wisconsin before taking charge of mining at Harpers Ferry, Leesburg, and Jamestown, Virginia, and Guilford County, North Carolina.

Karen T. Taylor

In early 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked Taylor to create a 2D facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque, founder of Dubuque, Iowa.

KDUB

KFXB-TV, a television station (channel 40) licensed to serve Dubuque, Iowa, which used the call signs KDUB or KDUB-TV until August 1995

KNSY, a radio station (89.7 FM) licensed to serve Dubuque, Iowa, United States, which held the call sign KDUB from 2004 to 2012

KFXD

The deal is part of Cumulus Media's acquisition of Dial Global; Townsquare will swap Peak's Fresno, California stations to Cumulus for its stations in Dubuque, Iowa and Poughkeepsie, New York, and Peak, Townsquare, and Dial Global are all controlled by Oaktree Capital Management.

Mathias Loras

Not satisfied with St. Raphael's Seminary in Dubuque, Loras moved the school south of Dubuque to an area known today as Key West.

Michael Owen Jackels

On April 8, 2013, Pope Francis appointed Jackels archbishop of the Archdiocese of Dubuque.

Midwest League

In 1976 the Midwest League contracted from ten teams to eight when teams in Danville and Dubuque were eliminated.

New Melleray Abbey

Dubuque native and actress Kate Mulgrew recently made a radio commercial for New Melleray's casket business.

Outward Bound USA

ELOB has a national headquarters located in Garrison, New York as well as eight regional offices which are based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York City; Annapolis, Maryland; Palm Harbor, Florida; Puerto Rico; Dubuque, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; and Yakima, Washington.

Red Faber

As a teenager, Faber attended college prep academies in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.

Sexual abuse scandal in Dubuque archdiocese

He also worked at Holy Family in Peosta, Iowa, and Holy Ghost parish in Dubuque.

University of Dubuque

Notable graduates of the University of Dubuque include Edward Solomon "Sol" Butler, a track star who set national and world records, competed in the 1920s Olympics and was one of the first black players in the National Football League as well as an early actor in Hollywood films.