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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CE4_security-savings-bank_Ashland-WI.html
This propertyhas been placed on the
National Registerof Historic Places
by the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
Security Savings Bank1889
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RTA_doctor-edwin-ellis_Ashland-WI.html
A man of indomitable faith, he brought culture to a wilderness.
Learning and religion were of first concern. Freely giving to both, he labored unceasingly for a city whose good lay very close to his heart.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM178Z_the-bad-river_Ashland-WI.html
The Mauvaise (Bad) River was so named by the French due to the difficulties of its navigation. The Indians called it Mushkeezeebi or Marsh River. In 1845 the Rev. L.H. Wheeler, Protestant missionary at La Pointe, planned an agricultural settlement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1383_early-vessels_La-Pointe-WI.html
Native American canoes launched North America's maritime legacy about 12,000 years ago, making them among the world's oldest watercraft.
The origins of the birchbark canoe are told in the oral traditions of the Ojibwe people. The spirit Winnebo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM133Q_madeline-island_La-Pointe-WI.html
The largest of the Apostle Islands was one of the earliest areas of Indian settlement, fur trade, missionary activity and commercial fishing in the interior of North America. It was discovered by French explorers in 1659. Trading posts were built …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWMP_fleet-admiral-william-d-leahy_Ashland-WI.html
William Daniel Leahy was born in Iowa in 1875 and his family soon moved to Wisconsin. He graduated from Ashland High School in 1892 and for the rest of his life considered Ashland his home town.
Leahy graduated from the Naval Academy and served…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWMO_northland-college_Ashland-WI.html
North Wisconsin Academy, founded in 1892 by the Congregational Churches, provided the first high school education available to young people of the small, isolated lumber camp, sawmill and farm communities in the area known as the Great Lakes Piner…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWMN_radisson-groseilliers-fort_Ashland-WI.html
A crude structure of boughs of trees "layed acrosse, one upon an other" was erected near here by Pierre Radisson and Medart Groseilliers in 1659. The two French traders came to Chequamegon Bay from Montreal and Radisson's account of their journey …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW0C_worlds-largest-white-pine-log_Glidden-WI.html
This white pine log was sleigh hauled to Glidden on Dec. 21, 1984 on the sleigh it sets on. It was cut on State 40 14 miles east of Glidden. Its estimated weight is 7000 lbs. The 20 ft log scaled 1960 [?] board ft. Estimated age 500 to 600 years old.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYX_glidden-state-bank_Glidden-WI.html
Glidden State BankCirca 1905has been placed on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior Nominated byJerry Hellenbrand - 2006