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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMF_ernies-trading-post_Monona-WI.html
Built originally as a garage, this brick structure served from 1932 to 1952 as the only neighborhood grocery. Operated by early settler Ernie Ferchland, the store served as a meeting place for Blooming Grove Township residents who planned the inc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AM7_mononas-birthplace-mononas-history_Monona-WI.html
Monona's Birthplace Dissatisfied with the services being provided by the Township of Blooming Grove, five residents of the area - Ernie Ferchland, Ray Owen, Ed Rothman, Walter Simon and Justin Waterman - met in Ernie's Trading Post to discuss s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10IL_boutell-house_Madison-WI.html
The Boutell House is significant as an elegant and finely detailed example of the Georgian Revival style in Madison. The style, locally popular between 1900 and 1940, is the product of the emergence of interest in Colonial architecture of the Unit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNOP_third-lake_Madison-WI.html
During Madison's first two decades, this body of water was named Third Lake. Lake Kegonsa, the first lake surveyed in 1834, was called First Lake. The city later created a new name for Third Lake: Monona, mistakenly thought to be an Ojibwe word fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNON_mound-city_Madison-WI.html
More than a thousand mounds once dotted the shores of Madison's lakes, so many that archaeologist Charles Brown favored the name Mound City for Madison. In the early 1900s, Brown found 160 mounds in 17 groups around Lake Monona. Native people (anc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNM0_black-hawk_Madison-WI.html
Madison changed with great speed in the 1830s: from Ho-Chunk home to war zone to capital city. Powerful forces were gathering against the Ho-Chunks. To gain more land, southwest Wisconsin lead miners pressured the U.S. government to remove the Ho-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNKF_otis-redding_Madison-WI.html
This seating area is dedicated to honor the memory of Otis Redding, Jr., who lost his life in a plane crash in Lake Monona on December 10, 1967 while en route to a Madison engagement. Known as the "King of the Soul Singers," Redding was acclaim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM8I_edna-taylor-conservation-park_Monona-WI.html
Edna E.E. Taylor was a teacher, writer and, in her later years, a dairy farmer. A believer in "Sensible Ecology" she proposed to sell 37 of her 98 acres of land to the city of Madison. Added to 10 adjacent acres already held by the city and 11 acr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM6K_conical-mound_Madison-WI.html
This mound was constructed by a people of a hunting and gathering culture who met periodically at ceremonial grounds like this one to bury their dead.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM65_springhaven-pagoda_Monona-WI.html
This was built in the late 1800's to protect the natural spring water in Springhaven, the farm of Judge E. W. Keyes. Later the clear water was used by area children to make lemonade for their picnics, held in what is now Stonebridge Park.
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