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FARMERS' MARKET
FARMERS' MARKET. Popular Dubuque spring, summer, and fall event held on Saturday mornings. With a tradition going back over one hundred years, Farmers' Market covers a four-block area around the DUBUQUE CITY HALL on Central Avenue between 12th and 13th STREETS.
The market was briefly discontinued in the early 1970s due to declining attendance. It was reinvigorated by then MAYOR C. Robert Justmann who encouraged arts and crafts to be added to the traditional display of produce from gardens and area farmers.
As many as eighty-five vendors pay a seasonal fee to display their goods. Some vendors have come to the market for as many as twenty years. Peak attendance generally comes in June and July when as many as three to five thousand people visit the market. City health officials make regular inspections. Winter markets from November to April have been held at the Colts Center. (1)
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Source:
1. Becker, Stacey. "Winter Market Localizes Consumption," Telegraph Herald, January 4, 2015, p. 11A