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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1541_address-by-president-lincoln_De-Pere-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 nati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12SE_eleazer-williams_De-Pere-WI.html
This site is part of a 4800-acre tract patented to Eleazer Williams by the United States. In 1882 Williams led a delegation of New York Indians to the Fox River Valley, hoping to set up an Indian Empire in the West. A year later he married the dau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127Y_st-norbert-college-the-packers_De-Pere-WI.html
St. Norbert College became the training camp of the Packers in 1958 in an agreement that would become the longest such partnership in NFL history. Father Dennis M. Burke, then president of the college, suggested the arrangement to the team that ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ3G_brown-county-court-house-1838-to-1854_De-Pere-WI.html
The site of the Brown County Court House from 1838 to 1854.Erected by Jean Nicolet Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM744_rapides-des-peres_De-Pere-WI.html
The rapids at De Pere were well known to all early travelers along the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, which provided the best access to the Mississippi. Despite Indian domination, the waterway served explorers, fur traders and voyageurs, missionaries, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM706_white-pillars_De-Pere-WI.html
This building was erected in 1836 to serve as the office of the Fox River Hydraulic Company, which was chartered by Wisconsin's first Territorial Legislature to construct a dam at Rapides des Peres. Following the 1837 financial crisis, notes issue…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OZ_marquette-jolliet_De-Pere-WI.html
Here in June, 1673, an expedition headed by Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and his companion Louis Jolliet departed from St. Francis Xavier Mission to find and explore the upper Mississippi River. In September they returned here to record their d…
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