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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP11_aztalan_Lake-Mills-WI.html
Indian people lived at Aztalan between AD 900 and 1200. The village encompassed 20 acres and was well-planned. The inhabitants planted corn, beans and squash, hunted wild game, fished and collected native plants for food. An elite group of individ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOY2_mamre-moravian-church_Lake-Mills-WI.html
This one room log church was built in 1861 by German settlers north of Milford near the Crawfish River. In 1874 it was moved one mile east to Highway Q where it was enlarged to serve as a school room and to house the pastor's family. In 1996 the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOVI_drumlins_Lake-Mills-WI.html
This is glaciated country. Here, as you approach the western edge of Wisconsin's kettle moraine, you see many land features created by glacial ice some 15,000 years ago. Among the most interesting of these are long, oval hills known as drumlins. W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOQX_pioneer-aztalan_Lake-Mills-WI.html
Pioneer Aztalan was settled in 1836 by Thomas Brayton and others at the junction of the Milwaukee-Mineral Point and Janesville-Fond du Lac territorial roads. By 1837 Aztalan had Jefferson County's first post office and by 1842 was its leading busi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNPV_princess-burial-mound_Lake-Mills-WI.html
Ancient people built this mound to mark a young woman's grave. The mound was the last in a line that once bordered the western side of the ancient community of Aztalan and the only one that contained a burial. Her community placed the young woman …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNLL_aztalan-mound-park_Lake-Mills-WI.html
Site of the famous prehistoric Indian stockade-protected village known as Aztalan first described by N.F. Hyer in the Milwaukee Advertiser in January 1837. Described by Dr. Increase A. Lapham, in The Antiquities of Wisconsin in 1855. Explored by t…