Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society
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Born in Detroit to Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother's family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840's the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house described in Curtin's Memoirs. Af…
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Following the end of World War II, Milwaukee's rapid urban development forced the seven rural towns of Milwaukee County into annexation or incorporation. When Greenfield incorporated as a city in 1957, the last of Milwaukee County's towns disappeared and wi…
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The 1871 Wisconsin legislature authorized the City of Milwaukee to finance and build a public water system. By 1873 the Board of Water Commissioners had constructed the old North Point Pumping Station below the bluff with intake from Lake Michigan, this tow…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMN9U_merrill-park_Milwaukee-WI.html
In 1879, Sherburn S. Merrill, the General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, purchased almost half a square mile in the Menomonee Valley to construct a massive railroad shop complex. By the early 1880s, the railroad company employed ov…
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From a quiet mid 19th-century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinninckinnic Avenue in only twenty years, Bay View's industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant workers who pour…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNGC_cold-spring-road_Greenfield-WI.html
Side AIn 1836, surveyors working for the U.S. General Land Office measured out the 6x6 mile grid of the future Town of Greenfield. Arterial roads and streets were later built at half-mile intervals following that pattern. In the days before road maps, stree…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNJ6_first-african-american-church-built-in-wisconsin_Milwaukee-WI.html
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American church built in Wisconsin, once stood on this site. The property was purchased in 1869, the year the congregation was organized. Construction on the St. Mark A.M.E. church began in Nove…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNJ8_haskell-noyes-memorial-woods_Campbellsport-WI.html
This scientific area preserved in natural condition for future generations is symbolic of the spirit of Haskell Noyes of Milwaukee (1886-1948) - one of Wisconsin's foremost conservationist's. Leader of citizen action for outdoor programs featuring youth par…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNLM_lake-ripley_Cambridge-WI.html
As a boy Ole Evinrude (1877-1934) lived near Cambridge. His father hoped to keep him on the farm and when Ole built a sailboat like he had seen in a picture book his father destroyed it. In a secret place in the woods the boy built another. Here on Lake Rip…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMNMI_shot-tower_Spring-Green-WI.html
Twenty years before Wisconsin became a state, the discovery of vast lead deposits brought a population boom to this area.
Green Bay merchant Daniel Whitney organized the Wisconsin Shot Company to build a shot tower on this site. T.B. Shaunce dug out the …