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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EKQ_emma-and-benjamin-stephanson-house_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingEmma and Benjamin Stephanson constructed this Tudor-style bungalow in 1930 and lived in the house for forty years until 1970. Mr. Stephanson worked at Huebsch Laundry, a locally owned business that was located along the Eau Claire…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM132P_legend-of-paul-bunyan_Eau-Claire-WI.html
The legend of Paul Bunyan is the creation of lumberjacks from Canada to the United States and from Maine to the Pacific Northwest. It probably had its roots in a real person. There was a soldier, named Paul Bunyan, who fought with Papineau in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZZU_augusta-veterans-memorial_Augusta-WI.html
This memorial is dedicated to all Augusta service men and women who have served in peacetime and in war. Especially honored are those listed on these stones, who gave their lives for their country and for our freedom. Lest we forget, they gave up …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYA4_iron-brigade_Augusta-WI.html
Highway 12 is dedicated to the brave soldiers of the Iron Brigade who fought in the Civil War of 1861-1865. Of the 672 infantry brigades in the Union Army, the Iron Brigade, composed of the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin, 19th Indiana and 24th Michiga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVE1_carson-park_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Carson Park, often referred to as "the island", is in fact a 134 acre peninsula nearly surrounded by Half Moon Lake. The lake is an excellent geological example of an oxbow lake formed when a meander of the Chippewa River was cut off during glacia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVD6_the-flume_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Looking east across Half Moon Lake from the northeast corner of Carson Park one sees the swimming beach and bath house. These structures are adjacent to the terminal point of a former engineering feat known then as the log flume. Essentially this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVCN_the-ice-industry-on-half-moon-lake_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Sawdust and Ice HarvestEach winter 350 lb. cakes of ice were cut from Half Moon Lake. After the harvest crews conveyed them to ice houses on shore, they were packed in 18 inches of the plentiful sawdust from local sawmills. Stored that way, the la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUNK_carson-park-baseball-stadium_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Historic BuildingThe Carson Park Baseball Stadium is a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project constructed in 1936-37. The stadium was built at a cost of $60,000. The sandstone used for the stadium was quarried at Downsville, WI about 25 miles…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT8Z_donald-i-sarge-boyd_Eau-Claire-WI.html
Donald I. Boyd arrived in Eau Claire in 1929 as the new high school band conductor. Almost immediately there was an improvement in the quality of the high school band. Although it was the middle of The Great Depression, the band's popularity enabl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT8Y_immigrants_Eau-Claire-WI.html
"Immigrants are pouring in...land I would never have thought of choosing is being taken up." Writing from Chippewa County's Clear Water post office in 1855, Thomas Barland could scarcely have imagined the tide of immigrants yet to land in Eau Clai…