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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJB_washington-county-courthouse-square_West-Bend-WI.html
This block was deeded to Washington County on May 2, 1853, by the Wightman, Kilbourn, Kneeland, and Wolcott families to locate and erect county buildings. The original courthouse, constructed in 1854, was relocated to Main Street when the 1889 cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJA_court-house-square_West-Bend-WI.html
This Square, known as The Park, was given to Washington County in 1853 as a site for county buildings for the use and benefit of the county forever. Donors were William Wightman, Byron Kilbourn, James Kneeland, E.B. Wolcott, and their wives. This …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLDL_the-american-character_Madison-WI.html
At the end of the nineteenth century, one of the most popular classes at the University of Wisconsin was Frederick Jackson Turner's course on the American frontier. In those lectures, Turner shared beliefs about our nation's history that would hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML1P_st-john-evangelical-church_Germantown-WI.html
Founded on 1843 by German settlers from Hessen-Darmstadt and the Bavarian Palatinate, joined later by emigrants from Pomerania and Wurttemberg. Designed by architects Myrath and Koch for $30. 3 acre site purchased from Adam and Maria Stein for $15…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKW0_dheinsville-settlement_Germantown-WI.html
Established in 1842, by the Philip Dhein family, Dheinsville is Germantown's oldest crossroads settlement. The village contains original half-timber buildings (fachwerk), reflecting the building-construction patterns of the early pioneers who came…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKI9_the-schwartz-ballroom_Hartford-WI.html
Side AThe Schwartz Ballroom opened to the music of Harold Austin and his New Yorkers on October 20, 1928. As part of the big band craze of the Roaring 20s, dance hall construction boomed while recording and radio broadcasting spread new urban soun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKI7_great-divide_West-Bend-WI.html
You are now on the great divide which separates the two principal drainage areas of Wisconsin. Water falling to the west of this ridge runs down the Rock River into the "Father of Waters" and after 1,400 miles reaches the Gulf of Mexico. Water whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKI6_kissel_Hartford-WI.html
The Kissel Motor Car Company was located across the river from this site. Kissel manufactured vehicles here for 25 years, from 1906 until 1931. Passenger cars, trucks, ambulances, funeral cars, taxicabs, and fire trucks were among the varied types…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK4O_christ-church_Jackson-WI.html
Center of the settlement established by German-Hunsruck pioneers, the Christ Evangelical Church was founded in 1842. This limestone edifice, replacing a log church, was completed in 1862 on land donated by Phillip Dhein.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK3Y_lizard-mound-park_West-Bend-WI.html
Lizard Mound Park is one of the best preserved and most diverse prehistoric effigy mound archeological sites in the state. It contains numerous mounds (A.D. 650-1300) in conical, linear, bird, panther, and lizard shapes. Originally known as the Ha…
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