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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWAJ_boscobel-a-river-town_Boscobel-WI.html
Towns like Boscobel developed along the Lower Wisconsin River as a result of the confluence of transportation networks.
[map of stagecoach routes between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River]
In the 1830s and 1840s, lead mining in southwe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVHL_trade-links-river-borne_Boscobel-WI.html
About 11,000 years ago, Native people moved into what is now Wisconsin. In the Chippewa [Ojibwe] language, Wisconsin means "gathering of the waters."The Native American found a land of many possibilities. Animals such as mammoth, mastodon, moose, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH9_crossing-the-river_Boscobel-WI.html
With the growth of Boscobel as a shipping point for products from the region, a dependable crossing of the river became an economic necessity. The city was incorporated in 1864 so it could issue bonds for the construction of a bridge.
In 1871, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVH8_the-river_Boscobel-WI.html
Long before people came to what we now call Wisconsin, the Ice Age shaped the land.
The lower Wisconsin River Valley looks as it does today because the glaciers covering eastern and northern Wisconsin 10,000 years ago melted away. A huge glacia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT85_the-gideons_Boscobel-WI.html
"And they stood every man in his place round about the camp." Judges 7:21
One night in September 1898 two salesmen, John H. Nicholson and Samuel E. Hill, shared room 19 in the Central Hotel, Boscobel. They wondered if some organization could n…