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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDRI_edgar-sawyer-house_Oshkosh-WI.html
Oshkosh lumberman, banker and financier Edgar P. Sawyer hired noted local architect William Waters to design this Tudor Revival style house in 1907. Constructed of brick and limestone with parapeted gables and fluted chimneys, the house featured i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDR1_first-edison-hyrdoelectric-system-in-america_Appleton-WI.html
On this site November 25, 1882 the Appleton Edison Light Co. began operating the first Edison Hyrdoelectric System in America.
Plaque donated to Outagamie County Historical Society by the family of Harold F. Parish November, 1979
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDNZ_jordan-dam-and-power-plant_Stevens-Point-WI.html
About 1840, near this site, Bloomer & Harper built one of the important early sawmills in northern Wisconsin. It was long known as McGreer's Mill, named for an early owner. By 1890, over 700 million feet of lumber, much of it sawed here, was float…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDME_fox-irish-cemetery_Neenah-WI.html
Near here is the "lost cemetery" of Saint Malachy Catholic Church (1849-1857), a mission church of log construction that served the local Irish community and Catholic Indians. Irish immigrants had come to Menasha to build dams, locks, and canals o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDLT_alonzo-e-horton_Hortonville-WI.html
Horton was born in Connecticut. In 1848, he purchased land in this heavily forested area and built a dam across Black Otter Creek to power a sawmill. Water collecting behind Horton's dam formed Black Otter Lake.
Hortonville, named after its fo…
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/HMDFH_orland-s-loomis-1893-1942_Mauston-WI.html
A Mauston native, lawyer, and World War I veteran, Loomis served in the state legislature (1929-1934), was first state director of the Rural Electrification Administration (1935-1936), represented Wisconsin at the World Power Conference (1936), an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDH_baraboo-river_Baraboo-WI.html
The river front was once the heart of Baraboo. Railroads, industry and commercial trade gravitated toward the river, making it the initial center of activity. On the river in this area at various times 1844 - 1902 were saw mill, lathe, shingle, be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCO_the-little-rock_Richland-Center-WI.html
Early explorers of the driftless area noted this "small, isolated vertical rock." The first settlers removed the easily available rubble for building foundations and chimneys. Soon horses and buggies cut between the rocks and established the roadw…
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…