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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPEV_world-war-ii_Allenton-WI.html
More than 330,000 Wisconsin residents, including 9,000 women, served in the armed forces between December 7, 1941, and the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945. They participated in every theater of war and in virtually every major campaign, fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOOF_solomon-juneau-house_Theresa-WI.html
Born in 1793, Solomon Juneau, a French Canadian agent for the American Fur Company and founder of the City of Milwaukee, established one of his outlying trading posts in this vicinity along the east branch of the Rock River in the early 1830s. He …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOOE_wisconsins-first-iron-smelter_Mayville-WI.html
Mayville was founded in 1845 by Alvin and William Foster and Chester and S.P. May. Iron ore was discovered by these men approximately four miles south of Mayville. A quantity of the ore was taken to the nearest iron smelter in Mishawaka, Indiana, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOOD_the-mayville-white-limestone-school-building_Mayville-WI.html
The North half was built in 1857-58 and the South extension was added in 1877. This school made it possible to classify the pupils and three departments were established. E.J. Foster was the first teacher.
This handsome building has withstood t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOOC_hollenstein-wagon-and-carriage-factory_Mayville-WI.html
The building occupied by the Mayville Historical Society Museum was built by John J. Hollenstein, Sr., as his home, wagon and carriage factory. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 1842; he married Dominica Zuest and emigrated to the United States …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIU4_dodge-county-memorial-park_Juneau-WI.html
This park is dedicated to the men and womenof the county who served their country in timeof war; it replaces six miles of memorial elmswhich were relinquished for this highway.
[Seal of the American Legion Auxiliary]
The trees were planted …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF9V_horicon-marsh_Waupun-WI.html
Horicon Marsh, an area of 31,653 acres, was scoured out by the Wisconsin glacier, at least 10,000 years ago. Gradually the upper Rock River made deposits which slowed its current and spread its waters over the marshland. The Marsh became a haunt o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7B_bernard-r-bunny-berigan_Fox-Lake-WI.html
This was the hometown of famed jazz trumpeter and band leader, Bunny Berigan. As a child he played in the Fox Lake Juvenile Band directed by his grandfather, John C. Schlitzberg.
In his early teens, he began his professional career with the Me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF78_frederick-douglass_Beaver-Dam-WI.html
Frederick Douglass was a former runaway slave who was a leading orator and author of the abolitionist movement. He is regarded as one of the most influential Americans of the nineteenth century. On October 20, 1856, Douglass came to Beaver…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF71_adrian-addie-joss_Juneau-WI.html
Tall and lanky, Wisconsin native Adrian "Addie" Joss became one of baseball's greatest pitchers, praised for his terrific speed and accurate control. Born in nearby Woodland on April 12, 1880, his family moved here to Juneau in 1886, where he play…