GHOUL-ENA, Illinois Women's Halloween T-Shirt

This design is one-of-a-kind and found only at Dubuque Clothing Co. — the GHOUL-ENA, Illinois Women's Halloween T-Shirt is printed on a premium tee with high-quality, soft inks built to last.

Galena's most famous house has a history worth a story of its own. In 1865, grateful local citizens — led by Congressman Elihu B. Washburne — bought a home built just a few years earlier and presented it to Ulysses S. Grant as a thank-you for his Civil War service. Grant used it as his headquarters during his 1868 presidential campaign and returned for visits throughout his life. It's been preserved as a memorial since 1904 and still stands today as a National Historic Landmark, furnished just as it would have looked in the mid-1860s — one more reminder that Galena's spookiest streets are also some of its most historic.

Our GHOUL-ENA, Illinois Women's Halloween T-Shirt puts a spooky, punny spin on a neighboring river town, with a design you'll only find at Dubuque Clothing Co. It's printed on a premium women's-fit tee with soft, high-quality ink built to handle plenty of trick-or-treat seasons.

The pun points to Galena, Illinois, just up the river from Dubuque. Galena boomed as a lead-mining town in the 1820s, its population rocketing from about 200 to 10,000 people in just a few years after commercial shipping began in 1816. Galena went on to become home to nine Union Civil War generals, most famously Ulysses S. Grant, and its beautifully preserved 19th-century streets now draw visitors — and, every October, plenty of ghost stories — from across the Midwest.

Reference: Galena, Illinois — Wikipedia

Reference: Wikipedia — Ulysses S. Grant Home