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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GS_carnegie-library_Waupun-WI.html
Waupun Wis.has been placed on theNational RegisterofHistoric Placesby the U.S. Dept. of InteriorSept. 4, 1979Wapun Historical Society
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GR_auto-race_Waupun-WI.html
In 1875 the Wisconsin Legislature offered a prize of $10,000 to the citizen of this state who could produce a machine "which shall be a cheap and practical substitute for the use of horses and other animals on the highway and farm." Such machine w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMH0D_clarence-addison-shaler_Waupun-WI.html
Inventor of the Hot-Patch, is fondly remembered by the residents of Waupun for: creating the Shaler Scholarships; being instrumental in the formation of the Rock River Country Club; purchasing for the city the world famous End of the Trail by Fras…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGVF_the-end-of-the-trail_Waupun-WI.html
Created as a tribute to the American Indian by James Earle Fraser (1876-1953) when only 17. His twice life-sized plaster replica gained world fame at the 1915 San Franciso Exposition. Clarence Shaler, Waupun industrialist, commissioned thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF9V_horicon-marsh_Waupun-WI.html
Horicon Marsh, an area of 31,653 acres, was scoured out by the Wisconsin glacier, at least 10,000 years ago. Gradually the upper Rock River made deposits which slowed its current and spread its waters over the marshland. The Marsh became a haunt o…