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Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of American settlement in Iowa. Though many local residents knew the property had once been a Catholic burial ground, they believed the graves had been moved to a new cemetery in the late nineteenth century in response to overcrowding and changing burial customs. But in 2007, when a developer broke ground for a new condominium complex here, the heavy machinery unearthed human bones. Clearly, some of Dubuque's early settlers still rested there-in fact, mor

Catholics --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social conditions --- History --- Third Street Cemetery (Dubuque, Iowa) --- History. --- Dubuque (Iowa) --- Antiquities.