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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM127B_bellevue-park_Green-Bay-WI.html
Bellevue Park served as the Packers' home field from 1923 to 1924 and was the site of the first Packers-Bears game played in Green Bay.
Bellevue Park was built in less than three weeks in the spring of 1923 with wood salvaged from the stands at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1279_packers-practice-fields_Green-Bay-WI.html
During the 32 seasons that the Packers played at City Stadium, they mostly practiced on nearby fields. As early as 1923, when East High was under construction, the Packers practiced in front of the school in Joannes Park.
In 1937, they created …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1276_riverside-ballroom_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Packers used the Riverside as indoor practice facility when there were no such luxuries. Before their final game in 1940, Coach Curly Lambeau held practice here over two days due to snow, ice and sub-freezing temperatures. The Packers worked o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126U_hagemeister-park_Green-Bay-WI.html
Hagemeister Park was the home of the Packers from 1919, their inaugural season as a semipro team, through 1922, their second year in the NFL.
Before East High School and City Stadium were built, Hagemeister Park included the tract of land from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126O_city-stadium_Green-Bay-WI.html
City Stadium is one of the last remaining relics from the early days of the National Football League. Although its appearance has greatly changed from the time when the Packers played here, it stands as a monument to the team's humble, hardscrabbl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126L_birthplace-of-the-packers_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Green Bay Packers were organized on Aug. 11, 1919, in the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building that stood here at 315 Cherry Street. The meeting took place in the editorial department on the second floor.
Two days later, the paper briefly m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM126F_elks-club_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Elks Club was the site of an annual sports banquet that honored many of the biggest names in Packer history from the Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi eras.
The first was billed as the "Lombardi Testimonial Banquet" and was held in April 196…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1261_curly-lambeaus-office-northern-building_Green-Bay-WI.html
Curly Lambeau occupied an office in the Northern Building for nearly 20 years while he was coaching the Packers, but visitors might have been taken aback by the sign on his door. It read: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Lambeau was an o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125Y_st-willebrord-catholic-church_Green-Bay-WI.html
St. Willebrord Catholic Church was where Vince Lombardi faithfully attended Mass during his 10 years in Green Bay. A devout Catholic, Lombardi would invariably arrive minutes before 8 a.m. on weekdays, park in the back lot and enter the church thr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM125X_green-bay-press-gazette_Green-Bay-WI.html
The Packers might have been born in the old Press-Gazette building five years before this one was completed, but the close ties between the team and the newspaper carried on here. Had it not been for the Press-Gazette, and particularly Andrew Turn…