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Category: Beginning’s of Dubuque’

Another Story of ‘Beginning’s of Dubuque’

Posted May 8, 2021May 23, 2021 William HammelPosted in Beginning’s of Dubuque’

The Telegraph-Herald   Sunday December 1, 1940 ‘THE WEB OF LIFE’ Another Story of ‘Beginning’s of Dubuque’ —Telegraph Herald Photo This little chapel, still standing on a knoll on the Henry Glues farm just south of Rockdale on Route 4, is emblematic of the powerful force that religion was in frontier Dubuque. This religious background, as […]

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