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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT4_van-slyke-house_Madison-WI.html
This Italianate sandstone house, originally built for local hardware dealer Samuel Fox, exemplifies a regionally distinctive alternating pattern in its masonry. In 1860, transplanted New Yorker, Napoleon Bonaparte Van Slyke, the cashier of the Dan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSQ_orton-park_Madison-WI.html
In 1887 this spot high over Lake Monona became the first Madison park. It is named in honor of Harlow S. Orton (1817-1895), Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Madison Mayor, Assemblyman, Circuit Court Judge, and University of Wisconsin Law School de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSO_yahara-river-parkway_Madison-WI.html
In January 1903, the leader of Madison's park development and President of the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, John M. Olin, presented a grand development plan for the Yahara River to city leaders. The plan called for deepening, widen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSN_italian-workmens-club_Madison-WI.html
One of the few buildings remaining from the original Italian community in Greenbush, the Italian Workmen's Club was constructed by volunteer labor in 1922, with a major renovation in 1936. John Icke, local contractor and benefactor of the Italian …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSM_city-horse-barn_Madison-WI.html
This simple brick structure is a rare survivor of the horse-and-wagon era. Built as part of the old city yards, the barn housed up to nine draft horses whose job it was to pull maintenance and service vehicles. Each of the nine windows on the Dayt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSK_city-market_Madison-WI.html
The City Market reflects the active civic improvement work in Madison at the turn of the century. Like other public projects, the Market was intended to enhance the advantages of city life. The building design by Madison architect Robert L. Wright…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLSJ_greenbush_Madison-WI.html
Once a marshy area off the shores of Lake Monona, this triangular shaped neighborhood became a dream for Italian immigrants during the early 1900's.
Greenbush developed into one of America's countless Little Italys, complemented with Jewish, Bl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLS0_orton-park_Madison-WI.html
Originally chosen as the site for the Village of Madison Cemetery in 1846, the fathers of the growing city decided to disinter the bodies buried here a decade later upon acquisition of the Forest Hill site. Named for Supreme Court Justice Harlow S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLRF_pioneering-human-genetics_Madison-WI.html
While a University of Wisconsin genetics professor from 1960 to 1988, Oliver Smithies pioneered the targeted genetic modification of mouse embryonic stem cells. This discovery led to the development of "knockout" mice, which became an indispensabl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLR9_mass-production-of-penicillin_Madison-WI.html
During World War II countless lives were saved through the use of the antibiotic penicillin, a natural product of a mold. However, the drug became widely available only after a method was developed to mass-produce it from a selected and geneticall…