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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5K_old-pepin-county-courthouse_Durand-WI.html
Built in 1873-74 for $7,000, this building served as the center of Pepin County government for 105 years and is Wisconsin's last remaining wood-frame courthouse. The temple-front Greek Revival style architecture represents strong democratic ideals…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME1X_little-house-wayside_Stockholm-WI.html
"Once upon a time......a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin in a little gray house made of logs."
Writing about herself and her life here, Laura Ingalls Wilder thus began "Little House in the Big Woods," the first of her f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6HQ_anchor-from-the-phil-scheckel_Pepin-WI.html
A steamboat which was run on the Chippewa River for many years during the last half of the 19th century.
Captain Scheckel was perhaps the best known pilot that ever put his hand to a wheel of a Chippewa River steamboat.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6HD_laura-ingalls-wilder_Pepin-WI.html
This park is named in honor of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" books which were awarded a medal in 1954 as "lasting contributions to children's literature." Laura Ingalls was born in a log cabin seven miles northwest of here Feb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6H5_site-of-fort-st-antoine_Stockholm-WI.html
Nicholas Perrot was a daring adventurer, fur-trader and able diplomat. The handsome Frenchman built Fort St. Antoine on the shore of Lake Pepin near here in 1686. Alarmed by the aggressions of the English, the French government felt it was necessa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6H2_maiden-rock_Stockholm-WI.html
The story of Maiden Rock has several versions. One by Mary Eastman was published in 1849. She heard the story from an old Indian friend, Checkered Cloud, who firmly believed the event happened around 1700. A more romantic version in verse was writ…