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ID: 7013620
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013620
Record Type:
administrative
Dubuque (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 090 39 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Mississippi River in NE Iowa; oldest city in state; Julien Dubuque's effort to attain lead mining rights culminated in Black Hawk Treaty of 1832; site became industrialized after river & rail transportation developed.
Names:
Dubuque
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
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named for Julien Dubuque, a French trader who arranged a treaty with Fox Indians for lead mining rights in 1788
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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United States
(nation) (
P
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Iowa
(state) (
P
)
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Dubuque
(county) (
P
)
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Dubuque
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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settled by French trader Julien Dubuque in 1788
city (
C
)
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incorporated in 1841
county seat (
C
)
inland port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
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for meat-packing & machinery
mill center (
C
)
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for lumber
shipbuilding center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
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houses University of Dubuque, Clarke College & Loras College
Sources and Contributors:
Dubuque..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
4:250
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS19002290
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
345
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 250; 4:250
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS19002290
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
345
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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