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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IA_prisoners-of-war_Marshfield-WI.html
Prior to World War II, few Americans had ever been held as prisoners of war on foreign soil. But the surrender of U.S. forces in the Phillippines in the spring of 1942 suddenly swelled the number of POWs into the thousands, and soon a network of s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HC_sir-henry-soloman-wellcome_Plainfield-WI.html
Sir Henry Soloman Wellcome, key figure in the development of pharmaceutics and the promotion of medical research, was born to Yankee settlers on a hardscrabble farm in the vicinity of Almond, Wisconsin, where he spent the first eight years of his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CE_shake-rag_Mineral-Point-WI.html
In the 1830's, tin miners from Cornwall, England started coming to S. W. Wisconsin to work the newly discovered lead ore deposits. In certain localities they built their stone cottages similar to the ones of their homeland.
Shake Rag, the grea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BW_august-w-derleth_Sauk-City-WI.html
Born February 24, 1909, in Sauk City, August Derleth lived virtually his entire life in his native Sac Prairie. He began writing at the age of thirteen and had over 150 books to his credit at the time of his death on July 4, 1971. Versatile as he …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17H_footprints-in-the-sands-of-time_Westfield-WI.html
The remarkable crisscrossing pattern on this sandstone was formed by an extinct animal. It crawled across moist, ripple-marked sand at the edge of a shallow tropical ocean, which covered Wisconsin about 520 million years ago during the Cambrian ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17D_korean-war_Westfield-WI.html
On June 25, 1950, Communist North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea. Backed by Soviet Russia, the North Koreans quickly overran most of the peninsula. South Korea appealed to the United States for assistance, and President Harry Truman immediate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZW_geological-marker_Athens-WI.html
This spot in Section 14, in the Town of Rietbrock, Marathon County is the exact center of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere. It is here that the 90th meridian of longitude bisects the 45th parallel of latitude, meaning it is exactly half…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZG_treaty-of-the-cedars_Little-Chute-WI.html
The Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River near here September 3, 1836. Under the treaty the Menominee Indian nation ceded to the United States about 4,000,000 acres of land for $700,000 (about 17 cents per acre). The area now contain…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX7_ketchums-point_Portage-WI.html
Ketchum's Point, named for a local family, stands above the low, marshy Portage connecting the Fox River and Great Lakes with the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. This waterway served as a vital thoroughfare for supplies and furs during the fur t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5_fort-winnebago_Portage-WI.html
In the autumn of 1828 a permanent fort was built on this site by the First Regiment of the United States Infantry under the command of Maj. David E. Twiggs, later a general in the Confederate Army. The fort was constructed primarily to control the…