Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society
Page 2 of 54 — Showing results 11 to 20 of 538
historicalmarkerproject.com/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?trality was part…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 canoes, travel…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 important…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 trade era. …
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 contains the citi…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 immediately ordered…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 was prolif…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 greatest conce…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 life. Well…
historicalmarkerproject.com/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 support gro…