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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9N_town-of-vernon_Big-Bend-WI.html
Prior to settlement the Town of Vernon was composed of sugar maple & white oak forests, savanna & marsh from which the Potawatomi derived food, medicine, shelter, tools & fibers.
On Nov. 1, 1836 Prucius Putnam, John Dodge & brothers Curtis & Or…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9M_dodges-corners-cemetery_Big-Bend-WI.html
John Dodge, one of Vernon's four founding fathers, settled on this land in the fall of 1836. He purchased the land from the Federal government Sept. 20, 1838. Dodge made his home here until his death Aug. 29, 1858. The cemetery was established as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9L_maney-ridge-prehistoric-effigy-mounds_Big-Bend-WI.html
On the ridge above this road and the Fox River lies a series of prehistoric earthworks. They represent visible remnants of both social and ritual behavior of one of Wisconsin's unique prehistoric cultures, the Effigy Mound Indians.
The conical…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9K_village-of-big-bend_Big-Bend-WI.html
In 1837, in anticipation of the "Great Wisconsin Land Sale" of 1839, Aaron and Elvira Putnam settled near a "Big Bend" in the Fox River. Potawatomi Indians camped on the river, but there were no white settlers at what was then the Milwaukee and Pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9J_haseltine-cobblestone-house_Big-Bend-WI.html
Colonel Orien Haseltine, of Andover, Vermont, came to Vernon/Big Bend in 1836, following his two eldest sons, Orien Jr. and Curtis who came in 1836, first settlers claiming 400 acres. Vernon was named by Haseltine in honor of George Washington's h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT9I_the-reformed-presbyterian-church-of-vernon_Big-Bend-WI.html
Covenanter built in 1854Organized by Scottish settlers in October, 1848 with Rev. James Milligan at the home of James Wright Sr.The last regular services were held in 1920.This was the only Covenanter church ever formed in Wisconsin.