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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8ME_northern-wisconsin-state-fair_Chippewa-Falls-WI.html
Primarily rural in the 19th century, Wisconsin promoted the state fair to advance better state farming practices. Since 1851 to the present, this fair has been held in southern Wisconsin. Recognizing the impracticality of entering or attending the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8LU_northern-wisconsin-center-for-the-developmentally-disabled_Chippewa-Falls-WI.html
Before the 19th-century social reform movement, developmentally disabled people were relegated to almshouses and county poor farms where the "indigent, insane, epileptic and "idiotic" were housed together without regard to individual condition. Re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IG_first-church-of-christ-scientist_Oconto-WI.html
This church was organized June 10, 1886. The first service was held here October 31 of the same year. Seven years earlier Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8GT_louis-massey_Hudson-WI.html
On this sitein 1840,was erected the home ofLouis Massey,Hudson's first white settler.
Marked byWoman's Club of HudsonMay 1930
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88G_the-cobban-bridge_Jim-Falls-WI.html
The Cobban Bridge, constructed in 1908 by the Modern Steel Structural Company of Waukesha, is a two-span Pennsylvania overhead truss type bridge and is the oldest of its kind in Wisconsin. Originally it crossed the Chippewa River just upstream fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7U9_belgian-settlement-in-wisconsin_Brussels-WI.html
Wisconsin's and the nation's largest Belgian American settlement is located in por?tions of Brown, Kewaunee and Door counties adjacent to the waters of Green Bay. Walloon-speaking Belgians settled the region in the 1850s and still constitute a hig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7TS_the-alexander-noble-house_Fish-Creek-WI.html
The Alexander Noble House was built in 1875 on land purchased from Asa Thorp, the founder of the Village of Fish Creek. This Greek Revival Style-influenced resi?dence is the Village's oldest existing dwelling still in its original location. Born i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7TK_jacksonport-united-methodist-church_Sturgeon-Bay-WI.html
Also known as "The Little White Church by the Lake," the Jacksonport United Methodist Church was completed in 1892. Its simple design is attributed to George Bagnall Sr., one of the original builders. Alex Halstead, Harry Wilson Sr. and Jed Jones …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SK_manitowoc-submarines_Manitowoc-WI.html
At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon America to rearm. Increasing the number of submarines became a goal. Because existing shipbuilders could not meet production schedules, the U.S. Navy approached C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7SI_manitowocs-maritime-heritage_Manitowoc-WI.html
In 1847 Captain Joseph Edwards built the schooner Citizen here, beginning an era of maritime tradition in Manitowoc which has still not ended. The Challenge, believed one of the first clipper ships produced on the Great Lakes, was built by one of …