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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28UZ_pot-kiln_Belgium-WI.html
The round structure on the hill is a pot kiln where settlers burned limestone in the late 1800s. This burning changed raw limestone into lime for use as mortar to build fireplaces and fill chinks in log houses and to apply to farm fields as crop f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28U1_from-booming-business-to-quiet-park_Belgium-WI.html
The quiet, peaceful scene at Harrington Beach State Park contrasts sharply with its former life as a quarry and company town. You can just imagine the noise as limestone was blasted loose, hauled in steel cars by mules, pulled by cable along incli…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SW_water-transport_Belgium-WI.html
Only fragments remain of a pier that once extended from this point more than 700 feet into Lake Michigan. Rail cars, loaded with limestone from a hopper at the crusher house, ran along the top of the pier about 50 feet above the water. Workers fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SV_excess-soil_Belgium-WI.html
Workers removed the overburden of soil to expose the limestone before quarrying could begin. They loaded the debris into side dump-cars which "donkey engines" pulled along rails toward the lake. En route, workers spread the dirt out beside the tra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28ST_limestone_Belgium-WI.html
Millions of years ago, Wisconsin was covered by a vast, shallow inland sea, teeming with marine life. Over time, the shells of animals such as gastropods and corals became fossilized in limestone deposits. Twelve thousand years ago during the last…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28SQ_a-unique-dinner-bell_Belgium-WI.html
Look at the neat, machine-drilled blasting hole in this rock.
Each day at noon and again in the evening as workers departed the quarry, they set off black powder or dynamite placed into holes in the rock. When they returned, workers could dig o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28S6_the-krier-house_Belgium-WI.html
Sebastian "Bus" Krier, Lake Shore Stone Company foreman, lived on this scenic spot in a handsome two-story house with a magnificent view of Lake Michigan. This comfortable home presented quite a contrast to the small, box-like houses of most compa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QW_murder_Belgium-WI.html
Dominic Manna lived in a shack or cave in the side of this hill, even though he was reported to have had more money than most of his fellow quarry workers. He ate his meals at the home of fellow worker August Falcineli, the company's mule driver. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QN_play-ball_Belgium-WI.html
The Lake Shore Ball Park was located in the present-day Point Picnic Area. The company-sponsored ball club hosted, and sometimes trounced, its rivals here. The May 1909 issue of the Port Washington Star tells of one game in which the mighty Lake S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28IM_the-company-store_Belgium-WI.html
Workers bought pasta, tobacco, kegs of wine, and just about everything except beer, at the company store. They bought beer at taverns in Lake Church, Schanens and Grof's, or from Grof's delivery wagon.
On Saturday nights, quarry workers cashed …