Connie Cherba for Trappist Caskets, Author at Julien's Journal

August 30, 20230

Trappist Caskets: Tom Kelly’s Gold

John Casper Wild 1844 Dubuque Sketch with smoke from Kelly’s smelter at top left. Thomas Kelly Grave Linwood Cemetery. Photo Connie Cherba. Mi

April 27, 20230

Otto Junkermann. Photo contributed by E.B. Lyons Nature Preserve. Junkermann & Haas price list. Photo contributed by Encyclopedia Dubuque. Jun

February 24, 20230

Before Dr. Nancy Hill began practicing medicine in Dubuque in 1874 as the city’s first female physician and before she helped start an organization

December 29, 20220

Julien Dubuque left no journals of his exploits and no diary detailing his day-to-day activities, but we do know some basic facts about his life. D

August 29, 20221

Downtown Dubuque boasts an abundance of historic, red brick buildings. Many were built using locally produced brick. Back in the mid to late 1800s a

June 30, 20220

The historic log cabin sitting proudly on a hilltop at Dubuque’s Mathias Ham Historic Site has the distinction of being the city’s and Iowa’s oldest

April 30, 20220

Sunnycrest Manor, the Dubuque County-owned nursing home, officially opened nearly 101 years ago on August 13, 1921 as a tuberculosis sanatorium – a

February 24, 20220

Seventy-five years ago on March 12, 1947, the first “M” tractor rolled off the assembly line at the brand new “John Deere Dubuque Works of Deere Man

December 28, 20210

A window sign requesting an ice delivery would look pretty strange in the 21st century, but back in the 1800s and early 1900s, the signal for the ic

November 1, 20211

Joseph Bartlett Dorr wasn’t a native Dubuquer, but he is counted among the city’s Civil War heroes. Born in New York on August 5, 1825, Dorr came we