Historical Marker Series

Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society

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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5QN_masonic-lodge_Sparta-WI.html
The Masons constructed this building in 1923, as Sparta's first building devoted entirely to a social organization. The architecture is characterized by an eclectic mix of Classical Revival and Prairie School influences. Noted regional architect and Masonic…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5R5_sparta-free-library_Sparta-WI.html
Prior to the construction of this building in 1902, the Sparta Free Library had several homes in the community. Schick and Roth, a LaCrosse architectural firm, designed the library building. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie provided construction funds. The…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5UI_the-home-of-colby-cheese_Colby-WI.html
At his father's cheese factory about one mile south and one mile west of here, Joseph F. Steinwand in 1885 developed a new and unique type of cheese. He named it for the township in which his father, Ambrose Steinwand, Sr., had built northern Clark County's…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM5YE_ringling-brothers-circus_Baraboo-WI.html
"The Greatest Show on Earth" was born and grew to maturity in Baraboo, just north of here. When the five Ringling brothers gave the first performance of their "Great Double Shows, Circus and Caravan," May 19, 1884, the main tent was 45 by 90 feet. There was…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6CC_mabel-tainter-memorial_Menomonie-WI.html
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of the era. Des…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6CJ_edgar-wilson-nye_River-Falls-WI.html
"Bill" Nye, journalist, lecturer, author, and humorist, grew to manhood in this quiet valley of the Kinnickinnic, which flows southwesterly through River Falls. The tall-tales of frontier humor were popular regionally before 1860. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6EJ_bow-and-arrow_Hager-City-WI.html
The rock outline you see on the distant bluff is an archeological curiosity. Jacob V. Brower, a Minnesota archeologist, observed this formation in 1902 and interpreted it as a bow and arrow. In 1903 he wrote, "Some of the stones representing the bowstring a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6GI_lake-pepin_Maiden-Rock-WI.html
This beautiful lake is twenty-two miles long, varies in width from one to two and a half miles, and covers about thirty-eight square miles. It was caused by the delta of the Chippewa spreading across the gorge of the Mississippi at the southeastern end of t…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6H2_maiden-rock_Stockholm-WI.html
The story of Maiden Rock has several versions. One by Mary Eastman was published in 1849. She heard the story from an old Indian friend, Checkered Cloud, who firmly believed the event happened around 1700. A more romantic version in verse was written by Mar…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM6H5_site-of-fort-st-antoine_Stockholm-WI.html
Nicholas Perrot was a daring adventurer, fur-trader and able diplomat. The handsome Frenchman built Fort St. Antoine on the shore of Lake Pepin near here in 1686. Alarmed by the aggressions of the English, the French government felt it was necessary to repe…
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