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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKK5_the-gravesite-of-lansing-a-wilcox_Cadott-WI.html
Lansing A. Wilcox, last surviving Wisconsin veteran of the Civil War, was born in Kenosha March 3, 1846. In February 1864 he enlisted from Chippewa County in F Company, Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry, returning to the Cadott community in 1866. A farmer,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM92V_old-abe-the-war-eagle_Jim-Falls-WI.html
This wayside is part of the old McCann farm, childhood home of Old Abe, the War Eagle. In the Spring of 1861 a band of hungry Chippewa came to the McCann farm and traded a young eagle for corn. The eagle became a family pet. When Company C, Eighth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8Y7_nations-first-cooperative-generating-station_Chippewa-Falls-WI.html
On Sunday, May 2, 1937, Wisconsin Power Cooperative was organized by an assembly of farmers for the purpose of developing a generating and transmission facility to provide low-cost electric service for the rural areas of Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8ME_northern-wisconsin-state-fair_Chippewa-Falls-WI.html
Primarily rural in the 19th century, Wisconsin promoted the state fair to advance better state farming practices. Since 1851 to the present, this fair has been held in southern Wisconsin. Recognizing the impracticality of entering or attending the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LU_northern-wisconsin-center-for-the-developmentally-disabled_Chippewa-Falls-WI.html
Before the 19th-century social reform movement, developmentally disabled people were relegated to almshouses and county poor farms where the "indigent, insane, epileptic and "idiotic" were housed together without regard to individual condition. Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88G_the-cobban-bridge_Jim-Falls-WI.html
The Cobban Bridge, constructed in 1908 by the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, is a two-span Pennsylvania overhead truss type bridge and is the oldest of its kind in Wisconsin. Originally it crossed the Chippewa River just upstream fro…