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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM512_kilbourn-city_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The first bridge on this site, a wooden structure, was completed in 1857. Byron Kilbourn, land speculator and politician promoted the site. Through his influence the LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad crossed the river here instead of at Newport, 2 m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM50L_belle-boyd_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Born May 9, 1844 in Martinsburg, VA.Died June 11, 1900 at Kilbourn, WI.
On May 23, 1862 at the Battle of Front Royal, VA., Belle Boyd, then 18, ran across the battlefield between the firing lines with information for Gen. Stonewall Jackson on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4ZO_dawn-manor_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Here on the Wisconsin River the village of Newport was begun in 1853, planned for a population of 10,000. Assuming that the Milwaukee & LaCrosse Railroad would cross the river here, over 2000 settlers quickly came to Newport, causing a lively land…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4Z5_baileys-landing_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed on the home site of General Joseph Bailey Civil War hero and a founder of Kilbourn City (now Wisconsin Dells) in 1856. Bailey became a national Civil War hero in 1864 when Porter's Red River Fleet was stranded in low …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W8_h-h-bennett-studio_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This building was constructed in 1875 by Henry Hamilton Bennett, pioneer landscape photographer, nationally known for his artistry, technical excellence and inventive genius. His views of this area brought the earliest tourists to his beloved Dell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W7_stroud-bank_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
Perry G. Stroud, a young attorney from New York, established this early bank in Kilbourn City, now Wisconsin Dells, in ca. 1870. Over his thirty-year career as the town's first attorney, Stroud preserved much of the city's early documentary histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4TN_baileys-eddy-municipal-dock_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
This natural harbor is named for Gen. Joseph Bailey, original owner of the property. It has been the gateway to the magnificent dells of Wisconsin for millions of visitors for over 100 years. Sight-seeing boats have developed from spoon-oared rowb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4T1_kingsley-bend-indian-mounds_Wisconsin-Dells-WI.html
The mounds of this group are a fairly representative sample of those built by the people of the Effigy Mound Culture between A.D. 700-1000. It has been through excavation of other burial mounds quite similar to these that archeologists have learne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4RI_point-bas_Nekoosa-WI.html
Lower limit of upper Wisconsin country. Called by Indians Ban-Gah-Je-Wung. First sawmill built just below here by Daniel Whitney in 1831. A strip three miles wide both sides of the Wisconsin ceded by Menominee Indians in 1836 from Point Bas forty …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4PT_city-founders-cemetery_Pittsville-WI.html
This cemetery is the final resting place of men, women and children who settled Pittsville and the surrounding area. Some tombstones have weathered, some broke; some graves were never marked. Some stones were moved, but time and nature cannot remo…