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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LB_highground-veterans-memorial_Black-River-Falls-WI.html
Wisconsin Vietnam veterans provided leadership for the establishment of a memo?rial dedicated to the men and women of the state who served in America's 20th century conflicts. In 1985, the Wisconsin Vietnam Veterans Memorial Project acquired prope…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L9_the-passenger-pigeon_Black-River-Falls-WI.html
Huge flocks of passenger pigeons once roamed North America. Larger than the mourning dove which it resembled, the passenger pigeon derived its name from an Indian word meaning "wanderer" or one who moves from place to place. Flying at a normal spe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IC_silver-mound_Alma-Center-WI.html
This large, isolated hill is a famous site where prehistoric Indians gathered to quar­ry a particularly attractive quartzite for the manufacture of chipped stone tools. Several aboriginal quarries are scattered along the rimrock of this mound. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK3_mitchell-red-cloud-jr_Black-River-Falls-WI.html
Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous action in battle between U.S. troops and Chinese Communists near Chonghyon, Korea, Nov. 5, 1950. Red Cloud's Company was entrenched beside Hil…
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