After its first three months of business the company was about ten percent ahead of its sales projections. Mark and Jeff are very grateful for the quality assistance they received from the Iowa Small Business Development Center.
SBDC Director Terry Sullivan prepared several different budgets so we would be ready for any results — the good, the bad, and the ugly -for the next three years. Terry also properly advised us on many other aspects of a business — marketing, advertising, personnel, etc. On June 1, , the land Julien Dubuque had worked so hard to develop was opened up for settlement by the United States Government under the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty and came to be known as the city of Dubuque when it was chartered in Settlers to this vibrant river city were known for mining and fur-trading, but later flourished in the industries of button making, boat building, logging, mill working, meat packing, and other heavy industries.
Since then, the community has had a long-standing manufacturing sector and a growing service sector. Dubuque is now the major retail, medical, education and employment center for the tri-state area. In the s, Dubuque was a city experiencing difficult times. The city had double-digit unemployment, an exodus of residents from the community and the state, struggling downtown businesses, and disconnected neighborhoods.
However, community leaders from the private and public sectors came together in four community visioning efforts over the past 20 years that helped change Dubuque. Phase I was completed in Survey Area Map north to top of map, dashed line denotes survey area The current survey was conducted in a geographic area northeast of the original plat of the City of Dubuque. Originally Lake Peosta separated the neighborhood from the Mississippi River to the south except at the far northeast end.
The survey area is primarily residential in nature, but it also contains examples of commercial, industrial, educational, and religious properties. Overall, the Phase II survey area can best be described as a working class neighborhood with corner stores and neighborhood schools and churches.
In Dubuque changed many street names, and others were changed prior to that. The following changes were made in the Phase II survey area:.
While these two are similar, the reason for their development was different, and it was somewhat difficult to evaluate them simultaneously. Brick is an important building material, but there appears to be an equal number of frame houses, and concrete block emerges as a popular building material in the early 20t h century. The areas include corner stores, and neighborhood schools and churches.
The architecture is primarily vernacular, with a few architect designed, high style houses and buildings included. Rhomberg, viewed west towards Windsor The survey area is narrow and elongated and there is no vantage point from which its entirety can be observed. The west end or southernmost corner, is substantially lower in elevation than is the rest of the point see photo above.
Historically the east-west flow of travel has dominated Eagle Point. None of the north-running roads located east of the Couler Valley went anywhere apart from serving access to a few farms. Roosevelt and Shiras Avenue only recently gained connections. Despite this fact, Shiras Avenue is recommended for survey and evaluation of a number of very early houses and outbuildi ngs. Frontier City on the Mississippi River: Following the opening of the area for settlement in , and while the original portion of Dubuque was being settled, several enterprising men looked farther north along the Mississippi River and purchased land in an area known as Eagle Point.
In a county road was laid out, beginning at Eagle Point and running to the Territorial Road, and thence to a county road. Eagle Point area map, c. There has been a great deal of discussion concerning which of the present streets Garfield, Rhomberg, Lincoln, or. Although the exact route of this road has not been determined, from this map it appears that the route followed what is now known as Garfield.
The commercial advantages of this town as well as its proximity to the rich mineral and agricultural country back of it, need not be enumerated to those acquainted with the situation. Its central position and commanding location will at once be observed by a slight reference to the map of the Territory.
The steamboat landing is inferior to none from St. Louis to St. No town in the far west can boast of a more healthy location — springs of the best and purest of water are found in abundance gushing out from the cliff at the rear of the town. The sale will take place on the ground on the 15t h day of July next. At that point lead mining operations were in place north of Dubuque, in the Couler Valley, and possibly in the Eagle Point area as well.
These were shaft mines rather than the surface digs found to the south Wilkie,, pp Eagle Point was one of several small settlements in the area that eventually were included in the boundaries of the city of Dubuque when it was incorporated under authority of the Iowa Territorial Legislature in January Mathias Ham one of the original proprietors of the town of Eagle Point , had arrived in the area in and over the next few years purchased 25, acres along the Mississippi River.
Included in those acres were Mineral Lots and These lots extended from Eagle Point proper southwest toward downtown Dubuque. Around Ham built a small cottage of native limestone on his land. This addition contained over lots and extended from the Mississippi River southwest from Tenth to First Street. Two large lots, and , indicate a plan for a public square bordered by Sixth and Seventh streets, Main and High. During the Civil War Camp Franklin was apparently located on these lots.
T In Ham enlarged his stone cottage into a fine two-and-one-half story Italianate style residence, complete with octagonal belvedere. The stone used in construction was not native, but had been shipped from Nauvoo, Illinois Sommer, pp The Ham residence National Register of Historic Places is located on a hillside overlooking the plain toward the river. It must have presented an elegant appearance in the s. One in going there passes through a magnificent collection of natural beauties — not the least of which surround the palatial residence of Mathias Ham, Esq.
Green ridged banks, massive, rocky uplands, groves just bursting into a wilderness of leaf and blossom, the imposing bluffs, the wide reaching river losing itself in the blue distance, the long stretch of greensward swelling, hollowed, flattened like some green sea, all unite in making the scene one full of beauty and grandeur. Other events indicate that there was a strong interest in this area of the city. Some of the earliest expansion out of the downtown area was to the northeast. Construction figures for that period indicate that over 1, new buildings including residences were built in the city, but there is no breakdown by neighborhood or ward.
Although the City Directory does not list any businesses in the survey area itself, it does list several just west along Couler between 19t h and Eagle Point now TwentySecond Street indicating that development was creeping north. These businesses included wagon makers, boarding houses, breweries, groceries, and the Jackson Hotel. While there were undoubtedly a number of houses and buildings constructed in the neighborhood by, only the Mathias Ham residence has been documented.
It is possible that one building at Rhomberg may date to this period, but no proof has been located. It appears that construction was taking place at both the east and west ends of the Rhomberg neighborhood, with a vast, unsettled area in the middle.
Local newspapers proudly noted new construction, not only commercial buildings and churches, but residences as well. During Woodworth and Jaeger built a frame brewery on the shore of Lake Peosta, along what is now known as Garfield. This business is listed in the city directory as being located in Eagle Point, evidently a generic name for the area east of Couler.
Other businesses in the neighborhood included a basket maker, John Lannoive, and a grocery run by Peter Vogenthaler. During residential construction continued in the survey area, with eight houses along Lake including a two story brick for C. The city directory of that year listed tw o businesses in the survey area: John Behrens was operating a brickyard at the corner of Division near Lake Lincoln near Garfield , and, John Schneider had a meat market at the northeast corner of Division Lincoln and Windsor.
The area is sparsely settled with the land from Kniest west approximately two blocks, and from Lake north to Eagle Point Road, almost totally empty. To the east, between Kniest and Johnson, is a large three story building surrounded by trees. This was the original Audubon School. High and Division streets are not cut through to Kniest, ending at Johnson. It is interesting to note that the area along Couler, Washington, and Jackson is almost totally built-up.
Each year the city directories listed more and more commercial ventures in this area, and the newspapers noted housing construction as well. A major reason for this development was the construction of the Chicago, Dubuque and Minnesota later the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad shops just southeast of the intersection of Lake and Johnson. Their tracks ran parallel to Lake from the shops to Eagle Point. These shops provided employment for over people.
Convenient, affordable housing for the railroad workers necessitated the construction of single family dwellings, boarding houses, and flats in the Rhomberg neighborhood. For example, J. Brick commercial buildings began appearing on corner lots, and a pair of greenhouses was constructed on Division near First.
These businesses led to the construction of more housing at the east end of the neighborhood. August Roeber opened a brickyard at the corner of High and 5t h Rhomberg and Stanton in the early s to meet the demand for building brick.
Like many other businessmen he built his residence, a two story brick house with side gable entry, near his workplace in The neighborhood was starting to fill in the middle from each end. Diamond Jo Boatyard and Marine Ways, c. The racial makeup of the city was Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.
There were 23, households of which The average household size was 2. The median age in the city was 38 years. The gender makeup of the city was As of the census of , there were 57, people, 22, households, and 14, families residing in the city.
The population density was 2, There were 23, housing units at an average density of There were 22, households out of which Age spread: The median age was 37 years. For every females there were For every females age 18 and over, there were About 5. Since its founding, Dubuque has had, and continues to have, a strong religious tradition. Local Catholic settlers established what would become the first Christian church in Iowa, St.
Raphael's Cathedral , in Since the s the religious character of the area is still dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. The city proper is home to 52 different churches 11 Catholic, 40 Protestant , 1 Orthodox , 1 Jewish synagogue, and 1 mosque. In addition to churches, 5 religious colleges, 4 area convents , and a nearby abbey and monastery add to the city's religious importance. Most of non-Catholic population in the city belongs to various Protestant denominations.
Dubuque is home to three theological seminaries: St. These latter two institutions train both lay and ordained ministers for placements in churches nationwide. Dubuque, Iowa facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. Quick facts for kids. Archdiocese of Dubuque headquarters St. Area Mt. Carmel Convent St. WJTY All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles including the article images and facts can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise.
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