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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z5_baileys-landing_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed on the home site of General Joseph Bailey Civil War hero and a founder of Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) in 1856. Bailey became a national Civil War hero in 1864 when Porter's Red River Fleet was stranded in low …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W8_h-h-bennett-studio_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed in 1875 by Henry Hamilton Bennett, pioneer landscape photographer, nationally known for his artistry, technical excellence and inventive genius. His views of this area brought the earliest tourists to his beloved Dell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W7_stroud-bank_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Perry G. Stroud, a young attorney from New York, established this early bank in Kilbourn City, now Wisconsin Dells, in ca. 1870. Over his thirty-year career as the town's first attorney, Stroud preserved much of the city's early documentary histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TN_baileys-eddy-municipal-dock_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This natural harbor is named for Gen. Joseph Bailey, original owner of the property. It has been the gateway to the magnificent dells of Wisconsin for millions of visitors for over 100 years. Sight-seeing boats have developed from spoon-oared rowb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4T1_kingsley-bend-indian-mounds_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The mounds of this group are a fairly representative sample of those built by the people of the Effigy Mound Culture between A.D. 700-1000. It has been through excavation of other burial mounds quite similar to these that archeologists have learne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2HW_site-of-fort-winnebago_Portage-WI.html
1828 — 1845 Surrender of Red Bird Noted Winnebago Chief 1827 Erected byWau-Bun ChapterDaughtersof theAmerican Revolution1924
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM244_john-muir-country_Pardeeville-WI.html
It was over this road that John Muir traveled to such early settlements as Kingston and Pardeeville. Muir was eleven when he came here from Scotland with his father, brother and sister in 1849. His mother arrived with her other children after a ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX7_ketchums-point_Portage-WI.html
Ketchum's Point, named for a local family, stands above the low, marshy Portage connecting the Fox River and Great Lakes with the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. This waterway served as a vital thoroughfare for supplies and furs during the fur t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5_fort-winnebago_Portage-WI.html
In the autumn of 1828 a permanent fort was built on this site by the First Regiment of the United States Infantry under the command of Maj. David E. Twiggs, later a general in the Confederate Army. The fort was constructed primarily to control the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVO_jacques-marquette-and-louis-joliet_Portage-WI.html
This tablet marks the place near which Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Wisconsin River June 14, 1673 Erected by Wau-Bun Chapter D. A. R. 1905
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