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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z5_baileys-landing_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed on the home site of General Joseph Bailey Civil War hero and a founder of Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) in 1856. Bailey became a national Civil War hero in 1864 when Porter's Red River Fleet was stranded in low …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W8_h-h-bennett-studio_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed in 1875 by Henry Hamilton Bennett, pioneer landscape photographer, nationally known for his artistry, technical excellence and inventive genius. His views of this area brought the earliest tourists to his beloved Dell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W7_stroud-bank_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Perry G. Stroud, a young attorney from New York, established this early bank in Kilbourn City, now Wisconsin Dells, in ca. 1870. Over his thirty-year career as the town's first attorney, Stroud preserved much of the city's early documentary histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TN_baileys-eddy-municipal-dock_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This natural harbor is named for Gen. Joseph Bailey, original owner of the property. It has been the gateway to the magnificent dells of Wisconsin for millions of visitors for over 100 years. Sight-seeing boats have developed from spoon-oared rowb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4T1_kingsley-bend-indian-mounds_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The mounds of this group are a fairly representative sample of those built by the people of the Effigy Mound Culture between A.D. 700-1000. It has been through excavation of other burial mounds quite similar to these that archeologists have learne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKF_wisconsin-dells_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The Indians believed that many years ago the Great Spirit, in the form of a snake, created the Dells when it forced its huge body through a narrow opening in the rocks. Geological studies, however, show that the Dells were formed some fifteen thou…