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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25EM_millville-minnesota_Millville-MN.html
Founded 1870 by Charles R. Read
Born March 10, 1820, Somerset Shier, England. Died October 9, 1899 at Millville, buried at Wabasha, Minnesota. Centennial was observed August 15-16, 1970.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D6D_the-bridge_Wabasha-MN.html
Wabasha-Nelson Bridge CompanyThe Wabasha-Nelson Bridge Company was incorporated in 1929 to build and operate a toll bridge over the Mississippi River. The Minneapolis Bridge Company & C.A.P. Turner were contracted to design and build it.
In 193…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19LW_grace-memorial-episcopal-church_Wabasha-MN.html
Designed by well-known architect Cass Gilbert, whose elegant new state capitol building was under construction in St. Paul, this handsome English Gothic style church was consecrated by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple on April 28, 1901. Forty-two yea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19KQ_wapahasha-i-wapahasha-ii-wapahasha-iii_Wabasha-MN.html
Wapahasha IAs George Washington was to the United States of America, so was his contemporary, Wapahasha, to the Dakota of eastern Minnesota. Wapahasha (Red Standard or Red Cap) was born about 1718 and became the foremost hero in the national histo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZM0_the-river-of-rafts_Reads-Landing-MN.html
This was once one of the busiest stretches on the Upper Mississippi River. Between 1830 and 1915, lumber companies in western Wisconsin floated millions of pine logs and pieces of cut lumber down the Chippewa River, which enters the Mississippi op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5N_louis-mccahill-memorial-park_Lake-City-MN.html
Dedicatedin grateful memory ofher son and all otherswho made the supremesacrifice and all whoserved in defense oftheir countryinWorld War I 1917 · 1918World War II 1941 · 1945Korean War 1950 · 1954byMary E. McCahill
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5C_the-first-settler_Lake-City-MN.html
The first actual settler in Lake City was Jacob Boody who came in the Fall of 1853. His brother and Abner Dwelle came the next year. Samuel Doughty built the first substantial home and blacksmith shop in 1855. That same year the town was platted a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ58_a-very-old-fish-story_Lake-City-MN.html
Ten thousand years ago, as the Ice Age was drawing to a close, Wisconsin's fast-flowing Chippewa River carried vast quantities of sand. But where the Chippewa entered the Mississippi, ten miles downstream from here, its current slowed and the sand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUQW_lake-pepin_Reads-Landing-MN.html
Lake Pepin occupies the Mississippi Valley above this point for a distance of 22 miles. The lake is formed by the delta of the Chippewa River which enters the Mississippi directly east of this site.
The Chippewa, a relatively small river, has a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULH_veterans-memorial_Wabasha-MN.html
Dedicatedto those whoServedandSacrificed