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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM43_iola-veterans-memorial_Iola-WI.html
In Memory of our Veterans[names]
Dedicated toVeterans of theIola Scandinavia AreaErected 1976 Post 14
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM00_iola-mills_Iola-WI.html
Colonel J.W. Chandler, S.S. Chandler, and S. Miller built Iola's first dam and sawmill in 1853. The partners then constructed a grist mill, adding a flour mill two years later. In 1860, Henry Wipf purchased a controlling interest in the Io…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGQ4_portion-of-wall-of-china_Clintonville-WI.html
Each stone represents a type ofthe stones used.The burned brick are 1700 years old.Donated bySun Yat Sen · Harvey DeckerEk Hock Fung · James A. BellEdward Mo Fung · Walter A. Olen
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGO8_history-of-big-falls_Tigerton-WI.html
In 1887, A.W. Whitcomb erected a sawmill on this site and water from the river supplied the power. In 1890, the land was platted and the settlement became the Village of Big Falls. In 1923, Big Falls was incorporated. Today it is one of the smalle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEH8_norwegian-evangelical-lutheran-church-of-our-redeemer_Scandinavia-WI.html
Norwegian Evangelical LutheranChurch of Our Redeemer,first Lutheran church in Waupacacounty, was built in 1856directly across the road. It wasenlarged in the form of a Crossin 1867, and demolished in 1928.Pastor Nils Brandt dedicatedthe cemetery J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLC_chief-waupaca_Marion-WI.html
Chief Waupaca, better known as Sam Wapuka, was a friendly Potawatomi Indian who lived in this vicinity about the time the first white men arrived. Although he was friendly to the settlers, his tribesmen were bitterly opposed to the invasion of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6X6_melvin-o-handrich_Manawa-WI.html
Master Sergeant Melvin O. Handrich of the U.S. Army was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous action in battle near Sobuk San Mountain, Korea on August 25-26, 1950.
Handrich was born in Manawa, Wisconsin on J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM54I_birthplace-of-an-airline_Clintonville-WI.html
It was here in Clintonville that Wisconsin Central Airlines, now known as North Central Airlines, was founded in 1944. Fostered and promoted by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, the airline was an outgrowth of the company's need for air transport…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM52P_four-wheel-drive_Clintonville-WI.html
In this machine shop, in 1908, Otto Zachow and William Besserdich developed and built the first successful four-wheel drive automobile. Their first car, the "Battleship", soon proved that it "could go anywhere a team of horses could go" and led to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QO_general-charles-king_Waupaca-WI.html
Charles King, one of America's most illustrious soldiers, was born in New York and came to Milwaukee in 1845. His father was Rufus King, editor and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel and first commander of the famed Civil War Iron Brigade. Charle…