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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDC7_warner-memorial-road_Baraboo-WI.html
This enduring highway connecting Baraboo with Devils Lake was made possible through the generosity ofWilbur William Warner(1850 - 1916)Whose boyhood home was here. To his cherished memory this tablet is gratefully dedicatedOctober 1921
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDBL_vodak-memorial-park_North-Freedom-WI.html
Joseph A. Vodak 1898 - 1974Julia Wopat Vodak 1903 - 1985
The Vodak family moved to North Freedom in 1927 from Hillsboro, Wis. Joe operated a sawmill at railroad museum location and a lumber shop at this site.
Joe and Julia were interested, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDAR_natural-bridge-state-park_North-Freedom-WI.html
The BridgeThis Natural Bridge of sandstone, 35 feet high, was carved by the uneven dissolving of mineral deposits holding the sand grains together. The result after many years of erosion by water, frost action, wind, and gravity is the largest nat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9Y_upper-fox-river_Berlin-WI.html
On these banks of the Upper Fox River June 7, 1673, explorers Marquette and Jolliet visited the Mascoutin Indian Tribe that lived here. For many years traders and missionaries camped here while visiting the Indians. In 1846 Nathan Strong, a Fourie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9V_lucy-smith-morris_Berlin-WI.html
Before women achieved the right to vote, clubs often served as women's political and cultural forums. Foreseeing the political power of a statewide alliance of women, Lucy Smith Morris organized Wisconsin's women's clubs into one coalition in 1896…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9K_john-muir-memorial-park_Montello-WI.html
John Muir, the father of America's National Parks, lived on the northeast side of this lake from 1849 to 1855. Although he travelled all over the world, Muir never forgot this land, and tried several times to buy and preserve parts of it, remarkin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9J_john-muir-foster-son-of-wisconsin_Montello-WI.html
He came to America as a lad of eleven, spent his 'teen years in hard work clearing the farm across this lake, carving out a home in the wilderness. In the "Sunny woods overlooking a flowery glacial meadow and a lake rimmed with water lilies," he f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9I_john-muir-view_Poynette-WI.html
John Muir (1838-1914), world famous naturalist and "father of the national park system," often stopped to rest and admire this view as he walked from his home in Marquette County to the University of Wisconsin. Muir loved the wilderness from which…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD9A_the-auroraville-fountain_Berlin-WI.html
The Auroraville Fountain has been providing water to this community since just after the Civil War. The land surrounding Auroraville is abundant in natural springs called artesian wells. In 1867, John Keneister of Auroraville bored this na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8W_russell-flats-school_Westfield-WI.html
Built in 1867, this one room rural school has served as the center of community life in Russell Flats for over 130 years. Constructed by Scotch - Irish settlers who arrived here in the early 1850s, the school has also functioned as the local Presb…