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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BGV_paperjack-creek_New-Richmond-WI.html
By 1855, Paperjack Creek and the nearby Willow River had each attracted a few settlers. A rivalry developed between settlements but was resolved in 1858 when the village was platted at the Willow River site. It is thought that the unusual name for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BGU_new-richmond-heritage-center_New-Richmond-WI.html
The Italianate style farmhouse was built in 1884 by Marcus Sears Bell, an early developer in new Richmond. He gave up his post as village president when he moved outside of the village to breed prize-winning cattle at this farm. In 1910 the Tierne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15GI_rememberance-wall_Wilson-WI.html
Kirk A. Straseskie · Mathew E. Schram · Dan H. Gabrielson · Paul J. Sturino · Rachel K. Bosveld · Jeremy L. Wolfe · Eugene A Uhl III · Warren S. Hansen · Christopher J. Splinter · Robe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV17_german-settlement_Hudson-WI.html
Nicholas and Hely Schwalen were among the first farmers in St. Croix County. They emigrated from Honsfeld, Prussia, in present day German-speaking Belgium. The brothers arrived in Racine, Wisconsin in 1848 and steadfastly worked their way to St. P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTI9_hudson-toll-bridge_Hudson-WI.html
The original interstate toll bridge which spanned the St. Croix River was officially opened for traffic June 14, 1913. It was privately owned by the St. Croix Bridge Company until 1917, when it became city property. For more than 35 years, it was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPN3_in-the-summer-of-1910_Hudson-WI.html
In the summer of 1910, about two miles south of Hudson on the Wisconsin shore of the St. Croix River, 85 boys and several adults held an experimental week of camp to try out a new youth program called "Boy Scouts". This first Scouting camp in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME1C_new-richmond-cyclone_New-Richmond-WI.html
The New Richmond Cyclone of 1899 remains the most disastrous tornado recorded in Wisconsin history. On the hot summer evening of June 12, with little warning and amazing force, a tornado swept through the thriving agricultural community of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8GT_louis-massey_Hudson-WI.html
On this sitein 1840,was erected the home ofLouis Massey,Hudson's first white settler.
Marked byWoman's Club of HudsonMay 1930
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CJ_edgar-wilson-nye_River-Falls-WI.html
"Bill" Nye, journalist, lecturer, author, and humorist, grew to manhood in this quiet valley of the Kinnickinnic, which flows southwesterly through River Falls. The tall-tales of frontier humor were popular regionally before 1860. Samuel Clemens (…