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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEUB_wisconsins-maritime-industries_Denmark-WI.html
Since about 1840, the lakeshore area from Manitowoc to Sturgeon Bay has been a center for shipping, fishing, and shipbuilding on the upper Great Lakes. Early shipping was characterized by sail and steam vessels docking at small private piers exten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SK_manitowoc-submarines_Manitowoc-WI.html
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon America to rearm. Increasing the number of submarines became a goal. Because existing shipbuilders could not meet production schedules, the U.S. Navy approached C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SI_manitowocs-maritime-heritage_Manitowoc-WI.html
In 1847 Captain Joseph Edwards built the schooner Citizen here, beginning an era of maritime tradition in Manitowoc which has still not ended. The Challenge, believed one of the first clipper ships produced on the Great Lakes, was built by one of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PZ_site-of-gjerpen-evangelical-lutheran-church_Manitowoc-WI.html
SiteGjerpen EvangelicalLutheran ChurchFounded 1850
PastorsH. A. Stub 1850 - 1852J. A. Otteson 1852 - 1860L. M. Biorn 1862 - 1872A. O. Alfsen 1872 - 1917A. O. White 1917 - 1930E. A. Fretheim 1931 - 1940Martin Trygstad 1940 - 1945Norman Berntson …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7MZ_manitowoc-and-the-car-ferries-s-s-badger_Manitowoc-WI.html
Manitowoc and the Car Ferries. In the first five decades of the 20th century, Lake Michigan railroad car ferry service aided national defense and the regional economy by providing a key transportation alternative to the railroad bottle neck in Chi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LC_ice-cream-sundae_Two-Rivers-WI.html
In 1881, George Hallauer asked Edward C. Berner, the owner of a soda fountain at 1404 - 15th Street, to top a dish of ice cream with chocolate sauce, hitherto used only for ice cream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel and soon became very popular…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7HZ_thorstein-veblen_Valders-WI.html
One of Wisconsin's most controversial figures, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, was born near here July 30, 1857. In 1865 the Veblen family moved to Minnesota where Thorstein graduated from college in 1880. He was a deep thinker, usually lonely and always …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6W3_wisconsins-dairy-industry_Denmark-WI.html
The growth of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is a story of remarkable transfer of scientific knowledge to practical use. As dairy farming developed, Wisconsin's agri?culture underwent transformation in less than 50 years.
Proposed as an alter…