Encyclopedia Dubuque
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STATE CAPITAL
STATE CAPITAL. Four original squares were given to the city when it was founded. One became JACKSON PARK. A ten-acre tract where the courthouse stood in 1880 and northward was a second. The third was located where the old jail was located and the fourth was later the site of WASHINGTON PARK.
The ten-acre tract was obtained in order to use it as a donation to secure the state capital. If that effort failed, it was to be used for any other public object.
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Source:
Oldt, Franklin T. and Patrick J. Quigley. History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, p. 97
