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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AZ_ceresco_Ripon-WI.html
The Long House is one of the few visible remains of the pioneer settlement of Ceresco. Founded in 1844 and named for Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, Ceresco was the home of the Wisconsin Phalanx, an experiment in communal liv?ing accordin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29M_grand-army-home_Waupaca-WI.html
The Grand Army Home was established in 1887 by the Wisconsin Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, a nationwide organization of Union veterans of the Civil War (1861-1865). The Home provided care for indigent veterans and their wives in a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28Q_wisconsins-first-deed_Kaukauna-WI.html
Dominique Ducharme first known white settler at Kaukauna. In Wisconsin's first recorded Deed For Land in 1793, he obtained 1281 acres of land from several Indian tribes, for 2 barrels of rum and other gifts. This is now the City of Kaukauna. Today…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28H_castle-rock_Camp-Douglas-WI.html
You are standing on what was once the bottom of a glacial lake in which Castle Rock, the formation rising before you, was an island. Thousands of years of erosion by water, ice and wind created the surface features you see in this area.
The wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28E_the-sand-counties-aldo-leopold-territory_Lyndon-Station-WI.html
"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot." For those who cannot, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac helps reveal the unsuspected natural riches hidden in these sand counties of Wisconsin.
At the core of Aldo Leo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM269_the-wisconsin-river_Mauston-WI.html
From its source at Lac Vieux Desert to the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, the Wisconsin River descends 1,071 feet in 430 miles. Twenty-six power dams utilize 640 feet of the fall of the river to produce an annual average of one billion kil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25W_the-iron-brigade_Mauston-WI.html
The Iron Brigade became one of the most celebrated units of the Civil War (1861-1865). Of its five regiments, three came from Wisconsin: the Second, Sixth, and Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. (The other two regiments were the Nineteenth Indi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25V_edward-s-bragg_Fond-du-Lac-WI.html
Born in New York in 1827, Edward S. Bragg was admitted to the bar in 1848 and moved to Fond du Lac in 1850, where he practiced law and played an active role in politics. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Bragg joined other "War Democrats" in s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244_john-muir-country_Pardeeville-WI.html
It was over this road that John Muir traveled to such early settlements as Kingston and Pardeeville. Muir was eleven when he came here from Scotland with his father, brother and sister in 1849. His mother arrived with her other children after a ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23Q_pioneer-wautoma_Wautoma-WI.html
In November 1848, in a log cabin, George Atkins here began sheltering travelers over the "Pinery Road." The next spring John Shumway bought out Atkins and built "The Wautoma Hotel." A hundred feet east he built a sawmill and started sawing lumber …