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==History== {{main|History of Dubuque, Iowa}} [[File:Aerial view Dubuque 1872.jpg|left|thumb|An aerial view of the City of Dubuque in 1872 by Alexander Koch.]] Spain gained control of the [[Louisiana Territory]] west of the [[Mississippi River]] following the 1763 defeat of the French; the British took over all territory to the east. The first permanent European settler in what is now Dubuque was [[Québécois people|Quebecois]] pioneer [[Julien Dubuque]], who arrived in 1785. In 1788, he received permission from the Spanish government and the local [[Meskwaki]] people to mine the area's rich [[lead]] deposits. Control of Louisiana and Dubuque's mines shifted briefly back to France in 1800, then to the United States in 1803, following the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. The Meskwaki continued to mine with the full support of the U.S. government until 1830 when the Meskwaki were illegally pushed out of the mine region by American prospectors.<ref>{{cite news|title=Newspaper article about Meskwaki (Fox) Indians being removed from the Galena territory|url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/indianapolis/indianapolis-indiana-democrat/1830/09-25/page-2 |access-date=November 15, 2016|work=Indianapolis Democrat|issue=2|date=September 25, 1830}}</ref> The current City of Dubuque was named after [[Julien Dubuque]], who settled at the southern end of a large flat plain adjacent to the Mississippi River. The city was officially chartered in 1833, located in [[Territories of the United States#Formerly unorganized territories|unorganized territory]] of the United States. The region was designated as the [[Iowa Territory]] in 1838 and was included in the newly created State of Iowa in 1846. After the lead resources were exhausted, the city became home to numerous industries. Dubuque became a center for the timber industry because of its proximity to forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and was later dominated by various mill working businesses. Also important were [[boat building]], [[brewing]], and later, the railroad industry. In 1874, the [[Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds|Diamond Jo Line]] moved its company headquarters to Dubuque.<ref name="uiowa">{{cite web|url=http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=315|publisher=University of Iowa|access-date=October 29, 2017|title=Reynolds, Joseph "Diamond Jo"|series=Biographical Dictionary of Iowa}}</ref> Diamond Jo Line established a shipyard at Eagle Point in 1878. Just two years later, the company was the largest employer in Dubuque, putting 78 people to work, 75 of whom worked at the shipyard earning their collective $800{{endash}}$1,000 per week in wages.<ref name="diamondjo">{{cite web|series=Encyclopedia Dubuque|url=http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=DIAMOND_JO_LINE|title=Diamond Jo Line|access-date=November 9, 2017}}</ref> Between 1860 and 1880, Dubuque was one of the 100 largest urban areas in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|title = Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990|access-date = September 1, 2009|url = https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/twps0027.html}}</ref> Iowa's first church was built by [[Methodism|Methodists]] in 1833. Since then, Iowans have followed a variety of religious traditions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morrice |first1=Polly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVcfZvCXxI0C&q=iowa+high+school+football&pg=PA62 |title=Iowa |last2=Hart |first2=Joyce |publisher=Marshall Cavendish |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7614-2350-8 |pages=64 |access-date=September 16, 2009}}</ref> Beginning in the mid-19th century and into the early 20th century, thousands of poor [[Germans|German]], [[Luxembourgers|Luxembourgish]] and [[Irish Catholic]] immigrants came to the city to work in the manufacturing centers. The city's large [[Roman Catholic]] congregations led to its designation as the seat of the newly established [[Archdiocese of Dubuque]]. Numerous convents, abbeys, and other religious institutions were built. The ethnic German and Irish descendants maintain a strong Catholic presence in the city. Nicholas E. Gonner (1835–1892), a Catholic immigrant from [[Pfaffenthal]] in [[Luxembourg]], founded the Catholic Publishing Company of Dubuque, Iowa. His son Nicholas E. Gonner Jr. (1870–1922) took over in 1892, editing two German-language weeklies, an English-language weekly, and the ''Daily Tribune,'' the only Catholic daily newspaper ever published in the United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=Thomas|last=Adam|title=Germany and the Americas: vol 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&pg=PA458|year=2005|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=458|isbn=9781851096282}}</ref> Early in the 20th century, Dubuque was one of several sites of a [[brass era]] automobile company, [[Adams-Farwell]]; like most others, it folded. Subsequently, Dubuque grew significantly, and industrial activity remained its economic mainstay until the 1980s. [[Tommy John]], who pitched for the [[Dubuque Packers]] in 1961, recalled that the town was "about 98 percent Catholic" back then. "Dubuque was the epitome of small-town life," John wrote. "The people were friendly, everyone knew everybody else, and there wasn't a thing to do: no excitement, few restaurants or recreation choices, a decaying slum section. So we spent as much time as we could at the ball park. At certain times of the year, the fish flies fester in hordes like a biblical plague."<ref>{{cite book|last1=John|first1=Tommy|last2=Valenti|first2=Dan|title=TJ: My Twenty-Six Years in Baseball|publisher=Bantam|location=New York|year=1991|isbn=0-553-07184-X|pages=39–40, 42}}</ref> A series of changes in manufacturing and the onset of the Farm Crisis in the 1980s led to a large decline in the sector and the city's economy as a whole. In the 1990s, the economy diversified rapidly, shifting away from heavy industry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Farm Crisis of the 1980s {{!}} Iowa PBS |url=https://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/2422/farm-crisis-1980s |access-date=October 8, 2022 |website=www.iowapbs.org}}</ref> Tourism, technology, and publishing are now among the largest and fastest-growing businesses. Dubuque attracts over 2 million tourists annually.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Industry |url=https://www.traveldubuque.com/articles/Industry |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Travel Dubuque |language=en}}</ref> The city has encouraged the development of the America's River Project's tourist attractions in the [[Port of Dubuque]], the expansion of the city's colleges, and the continued growth of shopping centers, such as [[Kennedy Mall]].{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
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