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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126O_city-stadium_Green-Bay-WI.html
City Stadium is one of the last remaining relics from the early days of the National Football League. Although its appearance has greatly changed from the time when the Packers played here, it stands as a monument to the team's humble, hardscrabbl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126L_birthplace-of-the-packers_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Green Bay Packers were organized on Aug. 11, 1919, in the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building that stood here at 315 Cherry Street. The meeting took place in the editorial department on the second floor.
Two days later, the paper briefly m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126F_elks-club_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Elks Club was the site of an annual sports banquet that honored many of the biggest names in Packer history from the Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi eras.
The first was billed as the "Lombardi Testimonial Banquet" and was held in April 196…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1261_curly-lambeaus-office-northern-building_Green-Bay-WI.html
Curly Lambeau occupied an office in the Northern Building for nearly 20 years while he was coaching the Packers, but visitors might have been taken aback by the sign on his door. It read: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Lambeau was an o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125Y_st-willebrord-catholic-church_Green-Bay-WI.html
St. Willebrord Catholic Church was where Vince Lombardi faithfully attended Mass during his 10 years in Green Bay. A devout Catholic, Lombardi would invariably arrive minutes before 8 a.m. on weekdays, park in the back lot and enter the church thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125X_green-bay-press-gazette_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Packers might have been born in the old Press-Gazette building five years before this one was completed, but the close ties between the team and the newspaper carried on here. Had it not been for the Press-Gazette, and particularly Andrew Turn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125L_downtown-green-bay_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Packers were founded in downtown Green Bay in 1919 and have had a presence here ever since.
In 1921, their inaugural season in what is now the NFL, they held their first practice at the Old Courthouse Grounds at the southwest corner of Cher…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125K_bellin-building_Green-Bay-WI.html
Gerald Clifford and Dr. W. W. Kelly, two members of the "Hungry Five," a group of local men critical to the survival of the Packers over their first three decades, had offices here. Kelly was a physician with an office on the fourth floor. Cliffor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125E_milwaukee-road-depot_Green-Bay-WI.html
Back when The Packers traveled exclusively by train, they were welcomed home here at the Milwaukee Road Depot by throngs of joyous fans after clinching three of the six NFL championships they won under Curly Lambeau. The celebrations took place af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYNT_cnesses-israel-synagogue_Green-Bay-WI.html
Upon this site stood Cnesses Israel Synagogue, the first Jewish congregation in Brown County dedicated September 4, 1904 (24 Elul 5664). Designed by local architect Henry A. Foeller, the synagogue was Moorish in design and had two octagonal towers…