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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZW_pulpwood-stacker_Cornell-WI.html
The Cornell Pulpwood Stacker is believed to be the last of its kind in the world and is listed in the State and National Register of Public Places. Designed and constructed in 1911-12 by the Joors Manufacturing Co., of England for the Cornell Wood…
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This tablet was erected in 1931by The Women's Club ofCornell, Wisconsinand serves a twofold purpose.—On the hillside below, unmarked and obliterated, are many Indian graves of days long past. At a later period this plot became the burial gro…
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Ezra Cornell was the man who founded the City of Cornell, Wisconsin, but actually never lived here. Cornell was born in 1807 in New York State of Quaker parents. He was a farmer, inventor, businessman, statesman, and a philanthropist. He became a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYJ_jean-brunet_Cornell-WI.html
Jean Brunet is one of the most noteworthy pioneers of the Chippewa Valley. Born in France in 1791, Brunet immigrated to this country in 1818 and moved to Chippewa Falls in 1828. He built the first dams on the Chippewa River at Chippewa Falls and B…
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In 1912, after a permanent dam was built across the Chippewa River near this location, the Cornell Wood Products Company, a large paper milling operation, began production here. The company manufactured paper products, cardboard and wallboard. The…
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