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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM297R_calvary-cemetery-civil-war-veterans_Milwaukee-WI.html
Consecrated on 1857 by the Most Rev. John Martin Henni, first archbishop of Milwaukee, Calvary Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 300 Union Civil War veterans including two Medal of Honor recipients: Boatswain's Mate John Breen, USS…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LKO_the-machine-shop-of-the-world_Milwaukee-WI.html
In the early 1900s, Milwaukee was the "Machine Shop of the World" and the Menomonee Valley was its engine. Farm machinery, rail cars, electric motors and cranes were all made in the Valley. Clay became cream city bricks. Wheat was turned into flou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IVN_honey-creek-settlement_West-Allis-WI.html
A steam sawmill built on this site in 1855 by Bigelow Case and Edwin Youmans was the first substantial industry on Honey Creek, which later became part of West Allis.
Lumber from the mill was used for the Mukwonago plank road and many other pi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GU3_national-home-for-disabled-volunteer-soldiers_Milwaukee-WI.html
The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in Presi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQR_lincolns-gettysburg-address_West-Milwaukee-WI.html
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that natio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQH_national-home-for-disabled-volunteer-soldiers_Milwaukee-WI.html
The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established by Congressional legislation and approved by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. Its purpose was "...to care for him who shall have borne the battle..." as stated in Presi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQ9_wood-national-cemetery-civil-war-memorial_Milwaukee-WI.html
In memory ofcomrades buriedin this home cemetery
1861 - 1865
The Union Forever
N.W.B.N.H. for D.V.S.Jan. 1903
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQ7_wood-national-cemetery-memorial-section_Milwaukee-WI.html
"The markers in this memorial areahonor veterans whose remainshave not been recovered oridentified, were buried at sea,donated to science, or crematedand the ashes scattered."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP5H_president-abraham-lincoln_West-Allis-WI.html
Candidate Abraham Lincoln delivered a campaign speech at the 1859 Wisconsin State Fair.
The Fair site, at that time, was at the Spring Street Hill/Brockway Grounds located in the heart of Milwaukee between Wisconsin Avenue and Highland Avenue, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOB4_camp-harvey_West-Allis-WI.html
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in April of 1898, President William McKinley called on the states to gather their military forces. State officials ordered the Wisconsin National Guard to report for duty at Camp Harvey, named for Wiscon…