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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZ0_andy-gump_Lake-Geneva-WI.html
1877 &npsp; Sidney Smith 1935
This statue of "Andy Gump", celebrated cartoon character introduced in 1917 as the first daily comic strip in the Chicago Tribune, was the first erected in 1924 on the Lake Geneva estate of his originator, Sidne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G8C_maple-park_Lake-Geneva-WI.html
The Maple Park Historic District was platted as the first residential district in the original Village of Geneva in 1837. It includes the first town square (Maple Park) and Pioneer Cemetery. It also contains many of the earliest residences dating …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSIA_wisconsins-first-4-h-club_Lake-Geneva-WI.html
The Linn Junior Farmers Club was the first 4-H Club organized in Wisconsin. Mrs. May Hatch, local community leader, and Thomas L. Bewick, newly appointed State Boys and Girls Club Leader at the University of Wisconsin, organized the club here on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR37_the-755th-aircraft-control-and-warning-squadron_Lake-Geneva-WI.html
Side AThe Williams Bay Air Force Radar Station, home of the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, was part of a nationwide Cold War effort to defend the continent against possible airborne attack from the Soviet Union. In the years followin…