Historical Marker Series

Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society

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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM28E_the-sand-counties-aldo-leopold-territory_Lyndon-Station-WI.html
"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot." For those who cannot, Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac helps reveal the unsuspected natural riches hidden in these sand counties of Wisconsin. At the core of Aldo Leopold's wri…
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You are standing on what was once the bottom of a glacial lake in which Castle Rock, the formation rising before you, was an island. Thousands of years of erosion by water, ice and wind created the surface features you see in this area. The wayside wher…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM29M_grand-army-home_Waupaca-WI.html
The Grand Army Home was established in 1887 by the Wisconsin Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, a nationwide organization of Union veterans of the Civil War (1861-1865). The Home provided care for indigent veterans and their wives in a pleasant c…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2AZ_ceresco_Ripon-WI.html
The Long House is one of the few visible remains of the pioneer settlement of Ceresco. Founded in 1844 and named for Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, Ceresco was the home of the Wisconsin Phalanx, an experiment in communal liv?ing according to the r…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2B0_carrie-chapman-catt_Ripon-WI.html
A national leader of the woman suffrage movement, Carrie Chapman Catt was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1859 and spent most of her life as a tireless crusader for women's rights. A gifted organizer, political strategist and public speaker, Catt suceeded Susa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2QO_general-charles-king_Waupaca-WI.html
Charles King, one of America's most illustrious soldiers, was born in New York and came to Milwaukee in 1845. His father was Rufus King, editor and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel and first commander of the famed Civil War Iron Brigade. Charles King gra…
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In 1845 the Emigration Society of the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland, sent Nicholas Duerst and Fridolin Streiff to the United States to purchase land for a Swiss settlement. They were joined in August by 108 settlers who began their homesteads on 1,280 acres…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2WU_the-orchards-of-door-county_Sturgeon-Bay-WI.html
In 1858 Joseph Zettel, a native of Switzerland, acquired the farm directly south of this Station and established the first commercial orchard on the Door Peninsula. The high yields and quality of his fruit aroused the interest of Emmett S. Goff of the Unive…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM3JI_wisconsins-first-home-built-flying-machine_Rothschild-WI.html
On June 23, 1911, near this location, Wausau native John Schwister became a pio?neer of Wisconsin aviation. Research indicates that on this date Schwister flew the state's first home-built airplane capable of sustained, powered flight. Constructed of wooden…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM43L_village-of-dover_Mazomanie-WI.html
Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon shop and s…
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