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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1N_the-black-hawk-war-black-hawks-grove_Janesville-WI.html
The Black Hawk WarIn April 1832, unhappy about their forced relocation to Iowa and misadvised by tribal chiefs, about 1,000 Sac, Fox and Kickapoo men, women and children followed Sac war leader Black Hawk back to their Illinois home where the Rock…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1L_beloit-college_Beloit-WI.html
Chartered by the Territorial Legislature of Wisconsin on February 2, 1846, Beloit College has had an uninterrupted life of service since its first class assembled on November 4, 1847. The main College grounds, and this first building, Middle Colle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF1A_burr-robbins-circus_Janesville-WI.html
This site served as the Spring Brook Farm winter quarters for the Burr Robbins Circus from 1874-1888. This show was once reported as the third largest circus in America. In 1874, Burr Robbins bought E.P. Doty's 100-acre farm and converted it into …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF15_route-of-abraham-lincoln_Janesville-WI.html
Twice in his lifetime Abraham Lincoln is known to have traveled within sight of the Rock River east of this marker.
Lincoln passed this way July 2, 1832, as a private in a mounted company of Illinois militia accompanying forces under General H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF0X_milton-house_Milton-WI.html
Erected in 1844 by Joseph Goodrich, this frontier inn is constructed of grout — a mixture of gravel, lime, and water. An important stagecoach stop and transfer point, it was also a pre-Civil War station in the underground railroad, and is st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF0W_storrs-lake-milton_Milton-WI.html
On July 1, 1832, here beside Storrs Lake, Brigadier General Henry Atkinson and 4,500 soldiers camped overnight in their pursuit of Black Hawk, Sac Indian chief, who was fleeing northward up the east side of Rock River with 400 warriors and 1200 wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF0U_rock-river-industry_Milton-WI.html
Flowing through rich agricultural land, the Rock River provided needed water power for local Wisconsin industries. Among the earliest in the 1840s were flour and lumber mills, followed in the 1850s by woolen and paper mills and, later, cotton mill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF0P_village-of-cooksville-village-of-waucoma_Evansville-WI.html
Village of Cooksville Cooksville consists of two villages: Cooksville platted in 1842 and Waucoma platted in 1846. John and Daniel Cook settled here in 1840, establishing Cooksville on the Badfish Creek, where a sawmill was soon constructe…