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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOZ2_evergreen-cemetery-earliest-evergreen-burials_Menomonie-WI.html
Evergreen Cemetery In 1873, local lumber company Knapp, Stout & Company, Co. provided fifty-two acres to establish a proper burial site. They hired landscape architects, William Merchant Richardson French and Horace Shaler Cleveland, to design the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXS_eau-galle_Eau-Galle-WI.html
The Chippewa and Sioux Indians roamed this area before the French fur traders came trapping fur bearing animals which were plentiful along the Eau Galle River.
The real history of the village of Eau Galle began in 1838-39 when a sawmill was ere…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKVE_caddie-woodlawn_Menomonie-WI.html
On this site during the Civil War Caroline Augusta Woodhouse, known throughout the world as "Caddie Woodlawn," experienced the excitement of growing up in pioneer Wisconsin. Her tomboy adventures with her two red-headed brothers, and her fearless …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0W_dr-stephen-tainter_Menomonie-WI.html
Up the hill on the left lies patriot Dr. Stephen Tainter, born October 13, 1760, in Westborough, Massachusetts. He first enlisted in December 1776, at the age of sixteen, as a drummer with Captain Kimball's company in Colonel Sparhawk's Massachuse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CC_mabel-tainter-memorial_Menomonie-WI.html
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRK_world-war-i_Menomonie-WI.html
The outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 did not involve the United States directly. Americans expected to remain neutral in the struggle between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy against Germany and its allies. The desire for neu?tralit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOV_chippewa-valley-white-pine_Menomonie-WI.html
Here and northeast of here lies the vast Chippewa Valley. At the start of lumbering in Wisconsin it held one-sixth of the nation's white pine. Surveyors estimated the total pine stand in the state at 136 billion board feet of prime lumber. Lumberm…