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7 November 2024
- 05:4905:49, 7 November 2024 diff hist +3 FOUKE, Henry Boteler No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 7 November 2024 diff hist +2 MEXICAN IMPORTS No edit summary current
6 November 2024
- 20:0220:02, 6 November 2024 diff hist +3 HEART PROGRAM No edit summary current
- 20:0020:00, 6 November 2024 diff hist +420 HOWIE, James No edit summary current
- 19:5119:51, 6 November 2024 diff hist +258 MONTANA HOUSE No edit summary current
- 19:4819:48, 6 November 2024 diff hist +22 DUBUQUE PARADISE CHURCH No edit summary
- 19:4719:47, 6 November 2024 diff hist +1 DUBUQUE PARADISE CHURCH No edit summary
- 19:4719:47, 6 November 2024 diff hist +817 N DUBUQUE PARADISE CHURCH Created page with "DUBUQUE PARADISE CHURCH. Originally constructed in 1923 as a Lutheran church, the building at 2501 Jackson in 2016 was leased as the Dubuque Paradise Church. The idea for the project was that of Sister Helen HUEWE. Renovation began immediately with a fundraising program. Raising about $220,000 meant work could begin replacing the roof, installing two boilers, and rewiring large sections of the building. The project was completed in 2021 with the help of..."
- 19:3319:33, 6 November 2024 diff hist +4 HUEWE, Helen No edit summary
- 19:3119:31, 6 November 2024 diff hist −30 PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PROJECT No edit summary current
- 19:2019:20, 6 November 2024 diff hist +119 PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PROJECT No edit summary
- 18:5318:53, 6 November 2024 diff hist +1,469 PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PROJECT No edit summary
- 17:3417:34, 6 November 2024 diff hist +832 N PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PROJECT Created page with "PACIFIC ISLANDER HEALTH PROJECT. In 2014 Neil MacNaughton, a former Peace Corps member who lived in Micronesia and later an associate professor of nursing at the UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE, was asked to make a presentation about the MARSHALLESE population in Dubuque. The audience was hosted by MERCY MEDICAL CENTER. The presentation fit into the plans of Mercy officials who were looking for local populations to which they could reach out. Art ROCHE,..."
- 17:1917:19, 6 November 2024 diff hist +17 ALL-AMERICAN CITY No edit summary current
- 17:1617:16, 6 November 2024 diff hist +20 ALL-AMERICAN CITY No edit summary
- 17:1317:13, 6 November 2024 diff hist +26 SAUL, James No edit summary current
- 17:0617:06, 6 November 2024 diff hist −92 PETER J. SEIPPEL LUMBER COMPANY No edit summary current
- 16:5816:58, 6 November 2024 diff hist −72 IOWA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME No edit summary current
- 16:5616:56, 6 November 2024 diff hist +9 WOOD, Alonzo P. No edit summary current
- 16:5416:54, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12 JOHN B. WERSINGER-1168 CENTER No edit summary current
5 November 2024
- 20:1920:19, 5 November 2024 diff hist +2 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
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- 20:1620:16, 5 November 2024 diff hist −406 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
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4 November 2024
- 04:5704:57, 4 November 2024 diff hist 0 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
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- 04:5704:57, 4 November 2024 diff hist +2 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
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- 04:5504:55, 4 November 2024 diff hist +164 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
- 03:3203:32, 4 November 2024 diff hist −7 LIBERTY TREE No edit summary
- 03:3103:31, 4 November 2024 diff hist +3,980 N LIBERTY TREE Created page with "LIBERTY TREE. The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution sparked a renewed interest in the famous Liberty Tree of Boston. State societies of the Sons of the American Revolution were asked to identify a tree or plant a tree in memory of the original. In October, 2024 the Dubuque members of the S.A.R. bought and planted the first Liberty Tree in the state of Iowa on grounds in LINWOOD CEMETERY. A burr oak, the tree is also the state tree of Iow..."
- 03:0903:09, 4 November 2024 diff hist +2 C. L. TRUDELL No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 4 November 2024 diff hist +6 MICHAEL ERMLY No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 4 November 2024 diff hist +6 HUBER, KURZ & CO. No edit summary current
- 03:0603:06, 4 November 2024 diff hist −22 HUBER, KURZ & CO. No edit summary
- 03:0503:05, 4 November 2024 diff hist +2 GEORGE RAGATZ & SON No edit summary current
- 03:0103:01, 4 November 2024 diff hist −1 GUILFORD, W. H. No edit summary current
- 02:5802:58, 4 November 2024 diff hist +1,343 N GUILFORD, W. H. Created page with "GUILFORD, W. H. (Dubuque, IA, (Oct. 16, 1839--Dubuque, IA, Jan. 12, 1927) In the period of about 1840 until 1915, Guilford was a nurseryman and fruit grower in Dubuque County. Between 1884 to about 1906 he was active in the promotion of horticulture in Dubuque County. He helped organize and served as the first president of the DUBUQUE COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY and in 1885 and for twenty-five years maintained a local experimental testing station for horticultural..."
- 02:4102:41, 4 November 2024 diff hist +41 W. H. GUILFORD AND SON No edit summary current
- 02:3902:39, 4 November 2024 diff hist −1 HALTENHOFF, Karl No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 4 November 2024 diff hist +64 HALTENHOFF, Karl No edit summary
- 02:3002:30, 4 November 2024 diff hist +8 HALTENHOFF FLORISTS No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 4 November 2024 diff hist +1,715 N HALTENHOFF, Karl Created page with "HALTENHOFF, Karl. (Hanover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany--Dubuque, IA, Dec. 13, 1972) After arriving from Germany, Haltenhoff lived in Florida. He was interested in the commercial production of citrus fruits and won a four-year scholarship to the Henry Shaw School of Gardening, Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, Missouri. He developed an interest in the native foods of birds and became an associate of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He then did landscape..."
1 November 2024
- 19:3619:36, 1 November 2024 diff hist +654 N RECEIVING VAULT Created page with "RECEIVING VAULT. The receiving vault was a building constructed at a cemetery for the storage of bodies when the ground was too frozen to dig graves with the limited equipment available in pioneer days. Some families chose to hold the funeral services in the vault. At the time of the funeral service, it was fortunate that many coffins had a pane of glass over the face of the deceased. This made it possible to confirm the identity of the deceased. A wooden panel then cov..." current
- 19:2719:27, 1 November 2024 diff hist +151 PAUPERS' FIELD No edit summary current
- 19:2719:27, 1 November 2024 diff hist −14 MODERN WOODSMEN OF AMERICA No edit summary current
- 19:2419:24, 1 November 2024 diff hist +466 N PAUPERS' FIELD Created page with "PAUPERS' FIELD. Found in most cemeteries was a section of land reserved for the poor who generally did not have the money to purchase a plot or even a casket. Single graves were referred to as "potter's graves", a term which began in biblical times. The high priests of Jerusalem purchased land for the burial of strangers or strangers, criminals, and the poor. This land had generally been mined for its potters' clay leaving it unusable for farming. --- Source:"