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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IA_prisoners-of-war_Marshfield-WI.html
Prior to World War II, few Americans had ever been held as prisoners of war on foreign soil. But the surrender of U.S. forces in the Phillippines in the spring of 1942 suddenly swelled the number of POWs into the thousands, and soon a network of s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9_ed-strangler-lewis_Nekoosa-WI.html
Robert Friedrich, who devoted a lifetime to the sport of wrestling, claims Nekoosa as his boyhood home. Born in 1890, he began his wrestling career at the age of sixteen when he challenged another local rival to raise funds for his baseball team. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKI_dr-byron-robinson_Wisconsin-Rapids-WI.html
Byron Robinson, born in southern Wisconsin, worked his way through Mineral Point Seminary and the University of Wisconsin from which he received a degree in 1878. In 1882, following graduation from Rush Medical College, Dr. Robinson located in Gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W_john-edwards-jr_Port-Edwards-WI.html
A native of England, John Edwards Jr. settled in this area in 1859 to assume operation of his father's sawmill, the nucleus around which the village of Port Edwards developed. Founded in 1840, the Edwards Sawmill was incorporated in 1890 into the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R_cranberry-culture_Nekoosa-WI.html
For countless ages the wild cranberry flourished in many marshy areas of Central Wisconsin. In 1829 Daniel Whitney mentioned the purchase of three canoe loads of cranberries brought down the Yellow River by Indians from the area now known as Cranm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM47_wakelys-tavern_Nekoosa-WI.html
Built in 1831, Wakely's Tavern and Trading Post was the first white settler's house in present Wood County. River piers, shingle mill, warehouse, and gunpowder pit contributed to making this site a rendezvous for Indians, voyageurs, lumbermen and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24_point-basse_Nekoosa-WI.html
Five rapids covering a distance of about three miles in this area were referred to as Nekoosa (swift water) by the Chippewa Indians, who made their campground on high Swallow Rock overlooking these rapids. At the lower end of the rapids, Wakeley's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX_centralia-pulp-and-paper-mill_Wisconsin-Rapids-WI.html
Here the vast Wisconsin River paper industry began in 1887 when the Centralia Pulp and Water Power Company converted a saw mill into a pulp and paper mill.
The pulp mill spanned the river to the island at the site of the present hydro-electric …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK_grand-rapids-of-the-wisconsin-river_Wisconsin-Rapids-WI.html
Indians called this section of the river "Ahdawagam"—the two sided rapids, while lumbermen knew it as "Grand Rapids"—the most treacherous stretch of the river, accentuated by perilous Sherman Rock. Bloomer, Sampson and Strong harnessed…