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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF3K_major-elbert-dickason-dickasons-hotel_Wyocena-WI.html
Major Elbert DickasonMajor Elbert Dickason founder of Wyocena, was born in Virginia in 1799. He moved to Illinois where he joined their militia during the Black Hawk War. Representing a Milwaukee land investor, he founded Columbus in 1839. When hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF00_rest-areas-on-the-i-roads_Poynette-WI.html
Early roadside rest areas were rural school grounds and country churchyards with their two little houses in back.
In Wisconsin, by 1920, curves were built to eliminate sharp road corners. Local garden clubs, with the American Legion and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9I_john-muir-view_Poynette-WI.html
John Muir (1838-1914), world famous naturalist and "father of the national park system," often stopped to rest and admire this view as he walked from his home in Marquette County to the University of Wisconsin. Muir loved the wilderness from which…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD81_potters-emigration-society_Portage-WI.html
Near here in 1849 Thomas Twiggs began a settlement of unemployed potters from Staffordshire, England. To help farmers on both sides of the Fox River reach his store and blacksmith shop at Twiggs' Landing, he operated Emancipation Ferry, named to e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD71_society-hill-historic-district_Portage-WI.html
This 137 building district is bounded, in part, by Emmett, Cass, Wisconsin and MacFarlane streets. Most of the houses were constructed between 1870 and 1910 and are in the Italianate and Queen Anne architectural styles.
Society Hill reflects th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD6P_frederick-jackson-turner_Portage-WI.html
Considered the most important historian of the United States in the twentieth century, Frederick Jackson Turner brought a new understanding to the meaning of the American experience. He was born in Portage; his father was Andrew Jackson Turner, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD67_zona-gale_Portage-WI.html
Zona Gale was born August 26, 1874, in Portage. She graduated in 1899 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Masters in Literature. Gale then spent six years as a journalist in Milwaukee and New York.
Her visits to Portage pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM54E_first-evangelical-lutheran-church_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This marks the site of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Moe Settlement 1863 — 1892
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM512_kilbourn-city_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The first bridge on this site, a wooden structure, was completed in 1857. Byron Kilbourn, land speculator and politician promoted the site. Through his influence the LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad crossed the river here instead of at Newport, 2 m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50L_belle-boyd_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Born May 9, 1844 in Martinsburg, VA.Died June 11, 1900 at Kilbourn, WI.
On May 23, 1862 at the Battle of Front Royal, VA., Belle Boyd, then 18, ran across the battlefield between the firing lines with information for Gen. Stonewall Jackson on t…