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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM_du-bay-trading-post_Junction-City-WI.html
In 1834 John Baptiste Du Bay established a trading post on the Wisconsin River one mile east of here for the American Fur Company. His wife was Princess Madeline, daughter of Oshkosh, Chief of the Menominee Indians. According to tradition, Du Bay'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEL_clare-a-briggs-cartoonist_Reedsburg-WI.html
Clare A. Briggs was born in Reedsburg on August 5, 1875 to Mr. and Mrs. William Pardee Briggs.
At an early age Briggs became a sketch artist, and in 1896 he accepted a job as an illustrator with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. After working for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W_john-edwards-jr_Port-Edwards-WI.html
A native of England, John Edwards Jr. settled in this area in 1859 to assume operation of his father's sawmill, the nucleus around which the village of Port Edwards developed. Founded in 1840, the Edwards Sawmill was incorporated in 1890 into the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4R_cranberry-culture_Nekoosa-WI.html
For countless ages the wild cranberry flourished in many marshy areas of Central Wisconsin. In 1829 Daniel Whitney mentioned the purchase of three canoe loads of cranberries brought down the Yellow River by Indians from the area now known as Cranm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM47_wakelys-tavern_Nekoosa-WI.html
Built in 1831, Wakely's Tavern and Trading Post was the first white settler's house in present Wood County. River piers, shingle mill, warehouse, and gunpowder pit contributed to making this site a rendezvous for Indians, voyageurs, lumbermen and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM34_wisconsins-greater-prairie-chicken_Bancroft-WI.html
These open grasslands in the Buena Vista Marsh, Portage County, were one of the last remaining strongholds of the Greater Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin. Once abun?dant in the state, this impressive bird nearly disappeared when its grassland habitat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24_point-basse_Nekoosa-WI.html
Five rapids covering a distance of about three miles in this area were referred to as Nekoosa (swift water) by the Chippewa Indians, who made their campground on high Swallow Rock overlooking these rapids. At the lower end of the rapids, Wakeley's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX_centralia-pulp-and-paper-mill_Wisconsin-Rapids-WI.html
Here the vast Wisconsin River paper industry began in 1887 when the Centralia Pulp and Water Power Company converted a saw mill into a pulp and paper mill.
The pulp mill spanned the river to the island at the site of the present hydro-electric …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS_stevens-point-gateway-to-the-pineries_Stevens-Point-WI.html
This plaque commemorates the pioneers who established Stevens Point during the 1840's, 50's and 60's. Community life centered here at the foot of Main Street where supplies were transshipped from wagon to boat for the trip north to lumber camps. P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO_the-historic-southside-railroad-complex-of-stevens-point_Stevens-Point-WI.html
Once the rail hub of central Wisconsin, Stevens Point's Historic Southside Railroad Complex still contains buildings, engines and tracks that evoke the time when the railroad was the dominant means of transportation in the country. The first train…