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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GUT_door-kewaunee-county-college-henry-diefenbach-sculptures_Algoma-WI.html
Door-Kewaunee County College
???? Around the turn of the previous century, it became apparent that the state normal schools were unable to supply an adequate number of teachers to meet the demand, especially in rural areas.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GU6_bottkolville_Casco-WI.html
???? Because permission to emigrate from their home in Euren, Germany, had repeatedly been denied, the family of Michael Bottkol fled to France in the spring of 1856.
???? Arriving in Kewaunee that summer, the family spent their remaining money …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTI_dikeman_Kewaunee-WI.html
???? The year was 1863. This area was a wilderness accessible only by primitive trails that wound through the vast, virgin pine forest. Here, surrounded by thousands of acres of prime timberland, Charles W. Dikeman and his partners built their mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GSR_decker-house_Casco-WI.html
On this site Edward Decker, Kewaunee County's most influential early political and business leader, erected his impressive home. Nicknamed "The White House", it was built from lumber that was cut from some of the 10,000 acres of timber he owned in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GSD_courthouse-square_Kewaunee-WI.html
The jail was designed by Oshkosh, Wisconsin architect William Waters and built in 1876. The building served a dual purpose of being both the sheriff's home and also the county lock-up. It was in use continuously until 1969. That year a county refe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GS0_the-lumber-industry-in-algoma_Algoma-WI.html
Just south of this site, brothers Abraham and Simon Hall built the area's first saw mill in 1852. From that time to the present, Algoma has been a significant source of wood products. Ahnapee Seating and Veneer Company was founded on this site in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GRY_the-great-kewaunee-fire_Kewaunee-WI.html
Shortly before midnight May 19, 1898, a fire broke out in a barn on Milwaukee Street near the northeast corner of Milwaukee and Ellis. Fanned by strong, cold northeast winds, the fire soon engulfed many of the buildings on the north sid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GRA_the-church-of-st-agnes-by-the-lake_Algoma-WI.html
???? The first church edifice, originally named "Grace Church", was erected on this site in 1878. This building was a brick veneer interpretation of the plan for a board and batten church found in Richard Upjohn's pattern book Rural Architecture …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GR9_stage-house-dyckesville_Luxemburg-WI.html
The first European inhabitant of this area was Louis Van Dycke, from whom the community received its name. Dyckesville, an early Belgian settlement, was a typical crossroads community including a store, church and saloon. It became part of one of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GQU_early-history-of-kewaunee_Kewaunee-WI.html
The bluffs overlooking the Kewaunee River north of the city witnessed much of Kewaunee's early history. It was here that Potawatomies had a village and eventually fought a bloody battle with the Sacs, killing an entire band.
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