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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMASV_first-complete-service-of-christian-divine-worship_La-Crosse-WI.html
This bluff (commonly called "Grandad Bluff") was the site of the first complete service of Christian Divine Worship to be conducted in La Crosse. The Reverend Father James Lloyd Breck and his company of pioneer missionaries, on the morning of June…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAQI_losey-memorial_La-Crosse-WI.html
He found this cemetery neglected and desolate. He transformed it into a place of charm and beauty. He made the wilderness to blossom as the rose. To commemorate the character and virtues of one who endeared himself to all by an unbroken record …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA53_the-upper-mississippi_La-Crosse-WI.html
From Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois, the upper Mississippi River flows through America's heartland for over 1100 miles. Its currents have borne the Indian's canoe, the explorer's dugout, and the trader's packet. Jacques Marquette, Loui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA2U_major-general-c-c-washburn_La-Crosse-WI.html
Cadwallader Colden Washburn was born in Maine in 1818. He settled in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1839 and served in Congress before moving to La Crosse. When the Civil War broke out, Washburn organized the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA07_the-valley-view-site_Onalaska-WI.html
This is the location of a village occupied between 1000 and 1200 by the Oneota, ancestors of the Winnebago and Ioway. The village site was chosen by the Oneota to make the best use of the area for farming, fishing, hunting, transportation, and def…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5RA_german-methodist-episcopal-churches_Stoddard-WI.html
In the mid 1800's immigrants from Bohemia and Germany began to settle the Chipmunk Coulee area. Some of the early settlers were the Belling, Bendel, Hiekel, Herold, Kunerth, Lorenz, Meyer, Neumann, Paudler, Preidel, Ringel, Ritschel, Starch, Tietz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5NF_hamlin-garland_West-Salem-WI.html
Gifted author of this region, Hamlin Garland was born at West Salem September 14, 1860, and died March 4, 1940. His ashes rest in the Garland family plot in Neshonoc cemetery, heart of the Coulee Country immortalized in his books, "Trailmakers of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5NB_hamlin-garland_West-Salem-WI.html
"A Son of the Middle Border" is buried here with his wife and pioneer parents.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DS_spence-park_La-Crosse-WI.html
Because of the fertile soil and lush woodlands on the river shores, the Winnebago Indians settled in this area in 1772. Sixty years later they ceded these lands to the U.S. Government. In 1842, Nathan Myrick, the first white settler in La Crosse, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5DP_red-cloud-park_La-Crosse-WI.html
This park, on the site of a Winnebago village, commemorates an heroic descendant of those people, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. Fighting in Korea in 1950 as a member of the 24th Army Division, Corporal Red Cloud bravely held off an enemy attack…
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