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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OVF_the-mazomanie-downtown-historic-district_Mazomanie-WI.html
In August 1992 thirty-four commercial buildings in Mazomanie were placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service. They represent nearly all of the old commercial portion of the village and give the district a disti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OVE_the-mazomanie-depot_Mazomanie-WI.html
The Mazomanie Depot is the oldest wood frame depot in Wisconsin. It was built in 1857 by the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company to replace the original depot which had been destroyed by fire earlier in the same year.
During the heyday of ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15DQ_lynch-and-walker-flouring-mill_Mazomanie-WI.html
Has been placed on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15DP_the-ringling-brothers_Mazomanie-WI.html
On November 27, 1882, the Ringling Brothers of Baraboo formally started in the show business in Mazomanie, Wis. Here, in Schmitz Hall was presented The Ringling Bros. Classic and Comic Concert Co. Two years later the brothers started their own cir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRQA_old-halfway-prairie_Mazomanie-WI.html
This building is Dane County's oldest existing country schoolhouse. Repeated remodelings conceal an original framework of logs.
The land was donated for school purposes in 1844 by Mary Fowler, a widow and member of the British Temperance Immigr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOPY_mazomanie-sand-barrens_Mazomanie-WI.html
When the last glacier melted some 10,000 years ago, the Wisconsin River swelled to more than 100 times its present size and carried billions of tons of fine sand and gravel on its way to the Mississippi River. As the meltwater decreased, it deposi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCB_john-f-appleby_Mazomanie-WI.html
It was here at Mazomanie in the late 1870's that John F. Appleby perfected the knotter. Still used on binders and balers, the knotter is a mechanical device which binds grain into compact bundles with twine.
Appleby was born in New York State b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCT3_mazomanie_Mazomanie-WI.html
In 1850, the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road Company began building a line to span the lower third of Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien. Chief Engineer Edward Brodhead concluded that this area's topographical features were ideal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM43L_village-of-dover_Mazomanie-WI.html
Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon …