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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM706_white-pillars_De-Pere-WI.html
This building was erected in 1836 to serve as the office of the Fox River Hydraulic Company, which was chartered by Wisconsin's first Territorial Legislature to construct a dam at Rapides des Peres. Following the 1837 financial crisis, notes issue…
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/HM6W3_wisconsins-dairy-industry_Denmark-WI.html
The growth of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is a story of remarkable transfer of scientific knowledge to practical use. As dairy farming developed, Wisconsin's agri?culture underwent transformation in less than 50 years.
Proposed as an alter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6SL_vincent-t-vince-lombardi_Green-Bay-WI.html
Vince Lombardi directed the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships in seven years (1961-62, 1965-66-67) - a feat without parallel in pro football history. His 1966 and '67 teams also won the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi forged an impressiv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6S9_heritage-hill-state-park_Green-Bay-WI.html
This park, built to portray and preserve Wisconsin's beginnings, is located on a site that is itself a part of history. On this 40-acre site stood Camp Smith—a temporary location of Fort Howard—part of the pioneer settlement known as S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6QG_first-commercially-successful-electric-street-railway_Appleton-WI.html
On August 16, 1886 the Appleton Electric Street Railway Company began operation of the world's first commercially successful electric street railway. The cars were driven by Van Depoele direct current motors which received power from a hydroelectr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6OZ_marquette-jolliet_De-Pere-WI.html
Here in June, 1673, an expedition headed by Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and his companion Louis Jolliet departed from St. Francis Xavier Mission to find and explore the upper Mississippi River. In September they returned here to record their d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6LM_lawrence-university_Appleton-WI.html
Lawrence University, chartered January 15, 1847, has admitted women to its student body from the day classes started November 12, 1849, in the original Academy or Institute. The first collegiate class of seven students — four men and three w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6IC_beef-slough_Alma-WI.html
The Beef Slough was a sluggish branch of the Chippewa River that provided an excellent storage pond for the logs floated downstream by numerous logging companies. Here loggers were employed to arrange the mixed-up logs into orderly rafts to be tow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6HQ_anchor-from-the-phil-scheckel_Pepin-WI.html
A steamboat which was run on the Chippewa River for many years during the last half of the 19th century.
Captain Scheckel was perhaps the best known pilot that ever put his hand to a wheel of a Chippewa River steamboat.