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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVO_jacques-marquette-and-louis-joliet_Portage-WI.html
This tablet marks the place near which Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Wisconsin River June 14, 1673
Erected by Wau-Bun Chapter D. A. R. 1905
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVN_marquette_Portage-WI.html
On June 14, 1673 Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet started the portage (1.28 miles) from here to the Wisconsin River, which led to their discovery of the Upper Mississippi June 17, 1673 at Prairie du Chien. The expedition, in two birch bark cano…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRK_world-war-i_Menomonie-WI.html
The outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 did not involve the United States directly. Americans expected to remain neutral in the struggle between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy against Germany and its allies. The desire for neu?tralit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOV_chippewa-valley-white-pine_Menomonie-WI.html
Here and northeast of here lies the vast Chippewa Valley. At the start of lumbering in Wisconsin it held one-sixth of the nation's white pine. Surveyors estimated the total pine stand in the state at 136 billion board feet of prime lumber. Lumberm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9_ed-strangler-lewis_Nekoosa-WI.html
Robert Friedrich, who devoted a lifetime to the sport of wrestling, claims Nekoosa as his boyhood home. Born in 1890, he began his wrestling career at the age of sixteen when he challenged another local rival to raise funds for his baseball team. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLF_the-merrimac-ferry_Lodi-WI.html
Merrimac's first permanent settler, Chester Mattson, obtained a territorial charter in 1848 to provide ferry service across the Wisconsin River. The State Legislature of 1851 authorized a road, subsequently to become State Trunk Highway 113, to co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKI_dr-byron-robinson_Wisconsin-Rapids-WI.html
Byron Robinson, born in southern Wisconsin, worked his way through Mineral Point Seminary and the University of Wisconsin from which he received a degree in 1878. In 1882, following graduation from Rush Medical College, Dr. Robinson located in Gra…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK3_mitchell-red-cloud-jr_Black-River-Falls-WI.html
Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous action in battle between U.S. troops and Chinese Communists near Chonghyon, Korea, Nov. 5, 1950. Red Cloud's Company was entrenched beside Hil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHV_john-baptiste-dubay_Mosinee-WI.html
Son of a Menominee Indian Princess · Son-in-Law of Chief Oshkosh · Treaty-Maker · Interpreter · Indian Trader · Firm Friend of White Men.