Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4T1_kingsley-bend-indian-mounds_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The mounds of this group are a fairly representative sample of those built by the people of the Effigy Mound Culture between A.D. 700-1000. It has been through excavation of other burial mounds quite similar to these that archeologists have learned most of …
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Perry G. Stroud, a young attorney from New York, established this early bank in Kilbourn City, now Wisconsin Dells, in ca. 1870. Over his thirty-year career as the town's first attorney, Stroud preserved much of the city's early documentary history. Here, h…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM4ZO_dawn-manor_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Here on the Wisconsin River the village of Newport was begun in 1853, planned for a population of 10,000. Assuming that the Milwaukee & LaCrosse Railroad would cross the river here, over 2000 settlers quickly came to Newport, causing a lively land boom. Whe…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM52P_four-wheel-drive_Clintonville-WI.html
In this machine shop, in 1908, Otto Zachow and William Besserdich developed and built the first successful four-wheel drive automobile. Their first car, the "Battleship", soon proved that it "could go anywhere a team of horses could go" and led to the found…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM54B_kenosha-southport-lighthouse_Kenosha-WI.html
Built by the federal government in 1866, the Kenosha Lighthouse replaces two other lighthouses constructed at this site in 1848 and 1858. Originally designated a coast and harbor light for Southport, now Kenosha, WI provided the first navigational illuminat…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM54I_birthplace-of-an-airline_Clintonville-WI.html
It was here in Clintonville that Wisconsin Central Airlines, now known as North Central Airlines, was founded in 1944. Fostered and promoted by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, the airline was an outgrowth of the company's need for air transportation. Fou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM555_shawano_Shawano-WI.html
Shawano is both a Chippewa and a Menominee Indian term signifying "to the South." Shawano Lake first was given this name because it was the southern boundary of Chippewa tribal territory. The city and county later were named after the lake. Like many Wiscon…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM55S_birthplace-of-the-american-water-spaniel_New-London-WI.html
Of all the breeds of dog recognized by the American Kennel Club, only five were developed in the United States and one, the American Water Spaniel, originated in Wisconsin. The development of the Water Spaniel as a purebred was due largely to the efforts of…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM581_captain-frederick-pabst_Milwaukee-WI.html
Of German birth, Pabst became a ship's captain in the 1850s and moved to Milwaukee in the 1860s. He later joined his father-in-law's brewery (founded 1844), which was renamed the Pabst Brewery in 1889. By the 1890s it was the world's largest lager beer brew…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM587_wisconsin-state-fair-park_West-Allis-WI.html
In 1892, this site became the permanent home of the Wisconsin State Fair after its purchase a year earlier by the State Agricultural Society. Until then, the Fair had moved annually since the first one in Janesville in 1851.
Over the years, State Fair P…