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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOD_old-stockade-site_Superior-WI.html
The Sioux uprising in Minnesota during the Summer of 1862, culminating in the New Ulm Massacre, caused great alarm in Superior. A Committee of Safety was chosen, a Home Guard organized, and a stockade built on the bay shore here. An inventory of a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOB_the-mississippi-river-parkway_Trempealeau-WI.html
The first 5-mile-long section of the Great River Road project, or the Mississippi River Parkway as it was originally named, was built near here in 1953 and extend?ed east across the Black River. Eventually, the Great River Road would follow the Mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH5A_galesville_Blair-WI.html
Trempealeau County,WisconsinFounded and Named byJudge George Gale1854Incorporated as a Village1887
This marker placed byFort Perrot ChapterDaughters of the American Revolution1938
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFDE_french-post_Trempealeau-WI.html
Probably site occupied by Nicolas Perrot 1685 - 86Reoccupied by Godefroy de LinctotRemains discovered in 1887 by JudgeB.F. Heuston and Georege H. Squieraided by Antoine GrignonDedicated September 6, 1926byState Historical Society of Wisconsin
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFD6_perrots-post_Trempealeau-WI.html
One of the leading early French traders and diplomats among the Indians of the upper Mississippi region was dark and handsome Nicholas Perrot. After building Fort St. Nicholas at Prairie du Chien in the summer of 1685, Perrot moved north and spent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFC7_decorah-peak_Holmen-WI.html
The rock-crested hill to the east was named after One-Eyed Decorah, a Winnebago chief who, according to tradition, took refuge in a cave near the peak after being wounded in a Chippewa attack on his village. He remained in hiding throughout the bl…