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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT81_prairie-du-chien_Prairie-Du-Chien-WI.html
In prehistoric times water from melting glaciers cut a wide valley between the bluffs of the Mississippi River to form a broad flood plain. On it French explorers, traders and missionaries found a large and well-established Fox Indian village. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR15_cliff-swallows_Gays-Mills-WI.html
In the spring of 2003, after the old bridge on Hwy 171 over the Kickapoo River was replaced with this new one, Cliff Swallows started breeding under the concrete structure. Cliff Swallows are one of 6 species of swallows breeding in Wisconsin. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQSL_gays-mills-sesquicentennial_Gays-Mills-WI.html
In the year 1847 James B. Gay, a civil engineer and native of Indiana, journeyed to the unsettled Kickapoo Valley. Here he was impressed by acres of untouched forest which covered the hills and valleys. Finding a good rock bottom in the river and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNO3_patrick-joseph-lucey_Ferryville-WI.html
Patrick J. Lucey was born in La Crosse on March 21, 1918, to Ferryville parents, Gregory C. and Ella McNamara Lucey. He was educated at Campion Academy, College of St. Thomas, and the University of Wisconsin.
Lucey served in the U.S. Army durin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLVE_beauford-t-anderson_Gays-Mills-WI.html
Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army, 381st Infantry, 96th Infantry Division, was born at Eagle, WI. on July 6th, 1922. He entered the service at Soldiers Grove, WI. in October, 1942. While serving his country in Okinawa, Japan, Beauford T. Anderson disp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLDX_black-hawk-trail_Soldiers-Grove-WI.html
700 Sac Indians July 31,1200 Soldiers Aug. 1, 1832followed this ridge westinto Vernon County over thisground._____________________
Two human skeletons werefound at a spring west ofWilder's Hotel, RisingSun in 1852.
Nancy Wilber authority1892…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML6D_gays-mills-apple-orchards_Gays-Mills-WI.html
Farmers in this area learned early that the land on both sides of the Kickapoo River offered excellent conditions for apple-growing. In 1905 John Hays and Ben Twining collected apples from eight or ten farmers around Gays Mills for exhibit at the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML69_james-davidson_Soldiers-Grove-WI.html
Product of a small American community, James 0. Davidson's life illustrates the romance of citizenship in a democracy. Born 1854 in Norway, where he received little formal education, he emigrated in 1872 and was a farmer and tailor before coming i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML60_soldiers-grove-origin_Soldiers-Grove-WI.html
In late July, during the Black Hawk War of 1832, Sac Indian leader Black Hawk led his starving followers through this area in their escape from the General Henry Atkinson and his military forces. After Black Hawk's brilliant delaying tactics at th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFM5_war-of-1812_Prairie-Du-Chien-WI.html
Although Prairie du Chien belonged to the United States after the American Revolution, its pioneer residents were tied by trade, tradition and family to the French-British community at Mackinac and to the St. Lawrence River ports.
During the W…