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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM199F_first-redemptorist-church-in-america_Allouez-WI.html
The church of St. John the Evangelist, the first church of the Redemptorists in this hemisphere, stood 215 feet east of this marker. It was begun by Rev. S. Mazzuchelli, O. P. and completed by Redemptorist missionaries sent from Europe by Rev. Jos…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM155Q_packers-office-building_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Packers moved into the south side of this building, located at 349 S. Washington St., in 1949 and occupied it until a new administration building was completed next to what is now Lambeau Field in 1963.
Curly Lambeau was the first coach to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM155C_indian-packing-plant-acme-packing-plant_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Indian Packing Corp. was the original sponsor of the Packers. Curly Lambeau was working at the packing plant in 1919 when he took the lead in organizing the team. Frank Peck, the company's president at the time, gave Lambeau $500 in cash to bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM154F_columbus-community-club_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Columbus Community Club, which opened in 1925 as a recreational and social center, played many roles in Packer history.
In the 1920s, before radio broadcasts of Packer games, large crowds gathered on Sunday afternoons when the team was play…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM154E_brown-county-courthouse_Green-Bay-WI.html
The imposing Brown County Courthouse was where the first stockholders meeting of the newly formed non-profit Green Bay Football Corporation was held on Sept. 17, 1923. It was the first of many important Packer meetings held here over the next four…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM154D_hotel-northland_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Hotel Northland was the social hub of Green Bay and more specifically the city's nerve center during football weekends and other Packer events from shortly after it opened in 1924 through the 1960s.
Vince Lombardi's introductory press confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1541_address-by-president-lincoln_De-Pere-WI.html
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM130K_zachary-taylor_Green-Bay-WI.html
Major Zachary Taylor served as commandant of Fort Howard for nearly three years, arriving in the spring of 1817 with 500 men of the fifth United States Infantry.
He would become the twelfth president of the United States on the fifth of March…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12SE_eleazer-williams_De-Pere-WI.html
This site is part of a 4800-acre tract patented to Eleazer Williams by the United States. In 1882 Williams led a delegation of New York Indians to the Fox River Valley, hoping to set up an Indian Empire in the West. A year later he married the dau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127Y_st-norbert-college-the-packers_De-Pere-WI.html
St. Norbert College became the training camp of the Packers in 1958 in an agreement that would become the longest such partnership in NFL history. Father Dennis M. Burke, then president of the college, suggested the arrangement to the team that ye…