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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6HD_laura-ingalls-wilder_Pepin-WI.html
This park is named in honor of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the "Little House" books which were awarded a medal in 1954 as "lasting contributions to children's literature." Laura Ingalls was born in a log cabin seven miles northwest of here Feb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6H5_site-of-fort-st-antoine_Stockholm-WI.html
Nicholas Perrot was a daring adventurer, fur-trader and able diplomat. The handsome Frenchman built Fort St. Antoine on the shore of Lake Pepin near here in 1686. Alarmed by the aggressions of the English, the French government felt it was necessa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6H2_maiden-rock_Stockholm-WI.html
The story of Maiden Rock has several versions. One by Mary Eastman was published in 1849. She heard the story from an old Indian friend, Checkered Cloud, who firmly believed the event happened around 1700. A more romantic version in verse was writ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6GI_lake-pepin_Maiden-Rock-WI.html
This beautiful lake is twenty-two miles long, varies in width from one to two and a half miles, and covers about thirty-eight square miles. It was caused by the delta of the Chippewa spreading across the gorge of the Mississippi at the southeaster…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6EJ_bow-and-arrow_Hager-City-WI.html
The rock outline you see on the distant bluff is an archeological curiosity. Jacob V. Brower, a Minnesota archeologist, observed this formation in 1902 and interpreted it as a bow and arrow. In 1903 he wrote, "Some of the stones representing the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CJ_edgar-wilson-nye_River-Falls-WI.html
"Bill" Nye, journalist, lecturer, author, and humorist, grew to manhood in this quiet valley of the Kinnickinnic, which flows southwesterly through River Falls. The tall-tales of frontier humor were popular regionally before 1860. Samuel Clemens (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CC_mabel-tainter-memorial_Menomonie-WI.html
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6CA_clark-county-moraines_Neillsville-WI.html
Most of the topographical features to be seen here can probably be attributed to deposits or moraines left when the glacier receded. The castellated hills or mounds northwest of Neillsville are of greater geological significance and interest, howe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM67V_samuel-hartford_Loyal-WI.html
When a lad of 14 he went as a substitute for his brother in law that his sister and her 7 little ones might not be deprived of a husband and father's care. Served as Private in N. Y. Militia.
Was in Battle of Niagara.
Honorably discharged Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5YE_ringling-brothers-circus_Baraboo-WI.html
"The Greatest Show on Earth" was born and grew to maturity in Baraboo, just north of here. When the five Ringling brothers gave the first performance of their "Great Double Shows, Circus and Caravan," May 19, 1884, the main tent was 45 by 90 feet.…