| Wisconsin (Dane County), Fitchburg — Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School — District No. 9 — 1860-1919 |
| | Originally at the NW corner of Fish Hatchery and Lacy Roads, the Dogtown School was later relocated ½ mile north and called the Fish Hatchery School. The Gorman Family relocated and restored the one room schoolhouse on this site in 1989. — Map (db m26762) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Fitchburg — Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School — District No. 9 — 1860-1962 |
| | Originally at the NW corner of Fish Hatchery and Lacy Roads, the Dogtown School was later relocated ½ mile north and called the Fish Hatchery School. In 1919 a new building was built at the original site. This building burned in 1937. A third building was constructed after the fire. The original school was moved to Whalen Road in 1989. — Map (db m26765) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — 9XM - WHA — "The Oldest Station in the Nation" |
| | On this campus pioneer research and experimentation in "wireless" led to successful transmissions of voice and music in 1917, and the beginning of broadcasting on a scheduled basis in 1919.
Experimental station 9XM transmitted telegraphic signals from Science Hall until 1917 when it was moved to Sterling Hall. In that year professor Earle M. Terry and students built and operated a "wireless telephone" transmitter.
In 1918, during World War I, when other stations were ordered silenced, 9XM . . . — Map (db m20151) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex |
| | Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex
1926
is listed in the State Register of Historic Places — Map (db m23740) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Heritage of the Hill |
| | Madison developers Delaplaine and Burdick erected the three-story Lakeside Water Cure here in 1854. This unsuccessful venture closed after three years and re-opened in 1866 as a summer resort hotel. Known as the "Newport of the West," it appealed to wealthy families from St. Louis and farther south. Fire destroyed it in 1877.
The Wisconsin Sunday School Assembly purchased the 28-acre parcel in 1881 to provide families with two weeks of entertainment and inspiration. Dozens of canvas tents . . . — Map (db m20949) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Hyer - Jaquish Hotel — 1854 |
| | Built in a vernacular that borrows both from Greek revival and Italianate sources, this brick structure was the front section of a larger Farmers’ and Railway hotel. Such hotels offered lodging to boarders and travelers in the nineteenth century. David Hyer came to the nascent village of Madison in 1837. In 1855 he sold the hotel to Henry C. Jaquish who operated it until a fire destroyed the rear portion of the building in 1874. — Map (db m22168) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Indian Mounds |
| | One of the several groups of prehistoric burial, linear and effigy mounds formerly located on the crest of the Monona-Wingra ridge, several of these were surveyed by Increase Lapham, in 1850. Village site was in the park below. Marked for the Wisconsin Archaeological Society by W.W. Warner, 1914. — Map (db m22793) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials |
| | Nineteenth century cemeteries were sometimes relocated as a community expanded. In 1845, land was purchased for a cemetery in the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison where St. Marys Hospital is located today. The cemetery became overcrowded with Madison's German and Irish settlers, so in 1862 Catholics purchased land for Calvary -- now Resurrection -- cemetery. Early in the twentieth century the bodies were removed to this site where they lie in unmarked graves. — Map (db m27060) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — The Nurses Dormitory — 1402 University Avenue, 1924-2002 — Where we became nurses and friends |
| | The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, established in 1924, is the oldest collegiate nursing program in the state. Nursing students lived in the dormitory from 1946 until 1960. The Nurses Dormitory building remained home to the School of Nursing administrative offices until 1977 when the school moved to the Clinical Sciences Center at 600 Highland Avenue. The dormitory was demolished in August, 2002.
Arthur Peabody, Architect, 1925 — Map (db m24944) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum — Home of pioneering research on prescribed fire and prairie restoration |
| | The Arboretum consists of 1,200 acres of restored and remnant prairies, savannas, wetlands and woodlands. Each of these plant communities provides a window into the natural heritage of southern Wisconsin before European settlers arrived in the 1830s.
Visitors can explore the plant communities of the Wisconsin Native Plant Garden and use miles of roads, trails and footpaths. You are also invited to the lawns and paths of the Longenecker Horticulture Gardens, a 60-acre site containing . . . — Map (db m26489) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Welcome to the Edgewood Park and Pleasure Drive |
| | The Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, incorporated in 1894, was granted an easement from the Dominican sisters of Sinsinawa for a road connecting Vilas Park with Woodrow Street.
The road was constructed in 1904 to provide a place to enjoy nature by bicycle, horse-and-carriage, or on foot. The advent of the automobile gradually eroded this peaceful oasis, and by the 1990's it had become a hazardous commuter shortcut.
In 2007, the Friends of the Park and Pleasure Drive . . . — Map (db m20951) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Wisconsin State Capitol |
| | Wisconsin State Capitol
has been designated a
National Historic Landmark
The Wisconsin State Capitol possesses national significance as an exceptionally intact example of the architectural values that embody the American Beaux-Arts tradition, popular during the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. It exemplifies that period’s emphasis on constucting monumental state capitols patterned on the National Capitol in Washington, D.C. — Map (db m24646) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Madison — Yahara River Parkway |
| | In January 1903, the leader of Madison's park development and President of the Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association, John M. Olin, presented a grand development plan for the Yahara River to city leaders. The plan called for deepening, widening and straightening the river between lakes Mendota and Monona and creating a parkway. In only six months, and with contributions from many Madison citizens, Olin and the Park and Pleasure Drive Association raised the money and secured the land to . . . — Map (db m19966) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Mazomanie — John F. Appleby |
| | It was here at Mazomanie in the late 1870's that John F. Appleby perfected the knotter. Still used on binders and balers, the knotter is a mechanical device which binds grain into compact bundles with twine.
Appleby was born in New York State but spent his boyhood in Walworth County, Wis. In his youth he was intrigued by his mother's nimble fingers tying knots as she worked at a spinning wheel. Thus inspired Appleby carved from wood his first "bird-bill" knotting device.
Following . . . — Map (db m20255) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Mazomanie — Mazomanie |
| | In 1850, the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road Company began building a line to span the lower third of Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien. Chief Engineer Edward Brodhead concluded that this area's topographical features were ideal for constructing a railroad servicing station and a commercial trading village. In 1855, he platted the village and named it "Mazomanie," an Indian name he believed to mean "Iron Horse." Mazomanie developed quickly after a dam and millrace were built . . . — Map (db m19472) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), McFarland — 125 — Stephen Moulton Babcock — 1843 – 1931 |
| | Stephen Moulton Babcock came to the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1887 and remained until his death in 1931. His life was filled with a great eagerness to know and a persistent desire to serve. He is best known for the perfection of the butterfat test which bears his name. Yet great as was this development, it likely was far surpassed in significance to mankind by the solid foundation he laid for invaluable research by himself and others in the field of animal nutrition. This has . . . — Map (db m22699) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — Black Bridge — 1904 |
| | Fabricated by the Iowa Iron Company, the early well known bridge was built like a railroad trestle with black overhead supports. It served as the area's only route across the Yahara River. Nearby speakesies and its edge-of-town location gave the area a dubious reputation in the Prohibition Era. — Map (db m19930) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — Bungalowen — Cottage, 1911: Home, 1932 |
| | The summer cottage was built on the honeymoon camp site of Ray S. and Theo P. Owen; the connected house was added to serve the family year around. Owen, professor of Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin, was a charter member of the Village Board of Monona. The Owen family was part of the early community of the Frost Woods neighborhood in Monona. — Map (db m19961) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — George Nichols Home - Circa 1878 |
| | This typical Wisconsin farmhouse became the retirement home in 1880 of early civic leader George Nichols. Five unusual round windows upstairs and a hilltop location provided a grand view of the area. Nichols School and Road, built on parcels of his original farm, are named in George Nichols' honor. — Map (db m19959) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — Royal Airport / Charles Lindbergh |
| | Royal Airport
The site of an airplane landing field, hangars, flying schools and stunt shows, this field was the center of Madison aviation from 1926 to 1938, mainly through the efforts of Howard Morey and his founding of Madison Airways Corporation. Later known as Royal Airways Corporation, it provided the first passenger service to Chicago, while Northwest Airways Inc. provided the first airmail service from this former farmland. The 100 foot wide hangar, built in 1926, could house 17 . . . — Map (db m20950) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — Springhaven Pagoda |
| | This was built in the late 1800's to protect the natural spring water in Springhaven, the farm of Judge E. W. Keyes. Later the clear water was used by area children to make lemonade for their picnics, held in what is now Stonebridge Park. — Map (db m19965) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Monona — The Outlet Mound |
| | The largest of nineteen conical, oval and linear mounds once located in this vicinity, the Outlet Mound was constructed as a burial place by Woodland Indians about 2,000 years ago. It was saved from destruction by the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and local citizens in 1944 and donated to the City of Monona. — Map (db m19958) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Mt. Horeb — Old Town |
| | Pioneer Mt. Horeb, complete with houses, churches, stores, harness shop, undertaker, hotel, and tavern stood on this spot. Known as “The Corners” by early settlers, it was the intersection of the Old Military Road with a major wagon trail from the east.
Scotch Presbyterians erected the first church here in 1848.
The area became known as Horeb’s Corners, when in 1867 a post office named Mt. Horeb (after the biblical landmark) was moved to the community from the farmhome . . . — Map (db m2198) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Sauk City — Battle of Wisconsin Heights |
| | On July 21, 1832, during a persistent rainstorm, the 65-year old Sac Indian leader, Black Hawk, led 60 of his Sac and Fox and Kickapoo warriors in a holding action against 700 United States militia at this location. The conflict, known as the Battle of Wisconsin Heights, was the turning point in the Black Hawk War. Here commanders General James D. Henry and Colonel Henry Dodge and their troops overtook Black Hawk and his followers after pursuing them for weeks over the marshy areas and . . . — Map (db m2146) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Stoughton — Main Street Historic District |
| | This district is a collection of Victorian and early 20th-century commercial buildings, largely built between 1860 and 1910. Once southern Dane County's mercantile center, the district provided extensive retail and professional services. Extending west to the Yahara River, the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. — Map (db m22708) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Stoughton — 126 — Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. |
| | Wisconsin's most famous political leader and greatest statesman. Born on a farm in Primrose Township, Dane County, he was the first native son and first University of Wisconsin graduate to become Wisconsin Governor. He rose from Dane County District Attorney to Congressman, Governor, and U.S. Senator. An influential fighter for reform, he viewed government as a servant, not ruler, of people. "Fighting Bob" led in establishing the progressive movement in Wisconsin politics. He advocated much . . . — Map (db m22702) |
| Wisconsin (Dane County), Sun Prairie — Georgia O'Keeffe |
| | This world-renowned artist was born in the Town of Sun Prairie on November 15, 1887. She was the second of seven children born to Francis and Ida O'Keeffe. Georgia grew up on the family farm south of the city of Sun Prairie. As a child, she received art lessons and her abilities were recognized and encouraged by local teachers and family throughout her school years.
After O'Keeffe left Sun Prairie she pursued studies at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905-1906) and at the Art Students . . . — Map (db m22692) |
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