| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Brandon — The Raube Road Site |
| | The Raube Road Site is one of Wisconsin's few remaining intact Old Military Road segments from the state's territorial period. Located on farmland purchased by Albert and Martha Raube in 1911, this 123-foot-long Military Road segment was part of the first constructed roadway to cross Wisconsin. Originally planned as an army supply and communication route between Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago at Portage and Fort Howard at Green Bay, the 234-mile-long road was surveyed and . . . — Map (db m23098) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Fond du Lac — Wisconsin Progressive Party |
| | Near this site on May 19, 1934, the Wisconsin Progressive Party was formally organized. The Party was the result of a movement begun forty years before on the principle that the will of the people should be the law of the land. The legislation it initiated in Wisconsin was later adopted throughout the nation.
Laws fostered by the Party protected the workers of Wisconsin against the calamities of injury and unemployment. To commemorate the Progressive Party's contribution to worker's . . . — Map (db m3648) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Johnsburg — Father Caspar Rehrl / St. John the Baptist Parish |
| | Father Caspar Rehrl
A priest, missionary, teacher, founder of churches and schools, and organizer of parishes, Father Rehrl was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1809. He became a missionary to North America, arriving in the new diocese of Milwaukee in the Wisconsin Territory in 1845. He traveled on foot through the Wisconsin wilderness to Johnsburg, a small community of German settlers established in 1841, where he was appointed the first resident pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish. . . . — Map (db m3293) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Ripon — 135 — Birthplace of Republican Party |
| | In 1852, Alvan Earle Bovay of Ripon met with Horace Greeley in New York and advocated dissolution of the Whig party and formation of a new party to fuse together anti-slavery elements.” With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill – introduced by Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas in January of 1854 – Bovay called a meeting of 53 Whig, Free Soiler and Democrat voters in the little white schoolhouse to organize the new party. Although the name Republican was officially adopted at . . . — Map (db m3225) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Ripon — Carrie Chapman Catt |
| | 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 Susan B. Anthony as president of the nation’s most important suffrage group, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, from 1900-04 and 1915-20. She transformed the movement into a purposeful organization and led the successful campaign . . . — Map (db m4331) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Ripon — 181 — Ceresco |
| | 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 living according to the rule of the French social philosopher Charles Fourier. Under the leadership of Warren Chase, the Phalanx attracted a membership of about two hundred persons. The company enjoyed a few years of vigorous life, then declined, and disbanded in 1851. The village became a part of Ripon in 1853. — Map (db m4330) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Ripon — 184 — Ripon College |
| | Incorporated January 29, 1851. The first College building, East Hall, was staked out that spring by Ripon city founders David Mapes and Alvan Bovay. Chartered as Brockway College, it was renamed Ripon College in 1864 and graduated its first class, four women, in 1867. Although private and non-sectarian, it was given support by the Winnebago Convention of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches until 1868. A regiment of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was mobilized here during the Civil War. The three original buildings are still in use. — Map (db m3596) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), St. Peter — Edward S. Bragg |
| | Born in New York in 1827, Edward S. Bragg was admitted to the bar in 1848 and moved to Fond du Lac in 1850, where he practiced law and played an active role in politics. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Bragg joined other "War Democrats" in supporting the military suppression of the Confederacy. Bragg recruited and later commanded a volunteer militia company after it was amalgamated with the Sixth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. Serving with valor and distinction, Bragg won a colonelcy in . . . — Map (db m4118) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Taycheedah — Toll Gate on the Military Trail |
| | This tablet marks the site of the toll gate on the Military Trail and Old Plank Road
1835 – January 10, 1916.
Erected by Fond du Lac Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1932 — Map (db m3650) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Waupun — Clarence Addison Shaler — (1860–1941) |
| | Inventor of the Hot-Patch, is fondly remembered by the residents of Waupun for: creating the Shaler Scholarships; being instrumental in the formation of the Rock River Country Club; purchasing for the city the world famous End of the Trail by Fraser and the Recording Angel by Taft; beginning to sculpture at the age of 70 and donating to the city his own works Waubun, Doe and Fawn, and The Pioneers. — Map (db m25637) |
| Wisconsin (Fond du Lac County), Waupun — The End of the Trail |
| | Created as a tribute to the American Indian by James Earle Fraser (1876–1953) when only 17. His twice life-sized plaster replica gained world fame at the 1915 San Franciso Exposition. Clarence Shaler, Waupun industrialist, commissioned this first bronze casting. Dedication was June 23, 1929. Chief John Big Tree, Fraser's model, was the honored guest at Waupun's 125th Jubilee July 1–4, 1964. — Map (db m25403) |
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