Grand Opera House

Historical marker location:

135 West 8th Street, Dubuque, Iowa

( Marker is on West 8th Street west of Iowa Street, on the right when traveling west.)

National Register of Historic Places.

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The first American casualty of World War I was a sailor from Iowa named Merle Hay. He was killed when the German submarine U-58 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones on December 6, 1917.