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KFXA (channel 28) is a television station licensed to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, serving Eastern Iowa as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl.It is owned by Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual CBS/Fox affiliate KGAN (channel 2), for the provision of certain services.
Location of Dubuque County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dubuque County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Roshek Brothers Department Store was a large retail store in downtown Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The company was founded by J.J.and F.H. Roshek. In its prime, Roshek's was the primary shopping destination in Dubuque and was the largest department store in the state of Iowa. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic ...
By the 1980s, the Dubuque plant began to decline. In 1980 the Dubuque Packing Company announced that they lost $9.9 million through beef operations at its Dubuque facility. [2] They asked the union for concessions, based on claims of market changes, high wages, and equipment problems. The company also shut down parts of the plant.
Julien Dubuque entered an agreement with the Meskwaki in 1788 to mine lead. He is believed to be the first European to settle on what is now Iowa. [5] The Governor of New Spain gave Dubuque a grant to work Spanish-owned land, naming the 1,380-acre (560 ha) area The Mines of Spain. Dubuque developed a trading post near the Meskawki village ...
Dubuque in 1865, the shot tower can be seen on the far right edge. Bridges on the Mississippi, at Dubuque, an 1872 wood engraving showing the tower in the center. The tower was built in 1856 to provide lead shot. The invention of the shot tower enabled economical production of many nearly perfect lead spheres of the right size to fit in a shot ...
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Jackson Park Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [ 1 ] This is primarily a residential area, with some institutional and commercial buildings, located north of the central business district . [ 2 ]