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EAGLE POINT LIME WORKS

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EAGLE POINT LIME WORKS. North-end business of the early 1900s. Started in 1890 by George FENGLER, the limeworks were located below the bluff at EAGLE POINT and had a peak production of 250 barrels daily. Sold throughout the Midwest, the lime produced by the Dubuque plant was advertised as strictly wood-burnt with a hardness that increased with age and a very white color as it dried.

The fact that it was sold in Michigan, where it was used in the iron factories, was said to prove the superiority of the Dubuque product. In addition to lime, the Eagle Point Limeworks carried a full line of fire brick, building brick, plastering hair, cement, and stucco. The rock quarry, later the property of Dubuque Stone Products, eventually became Eagle Point Fun Land.