| Wisconsin (St. Croix County), Hudson — 200 — Brule-St. Croix Waterway | | | From early Indian days the St. Croix River and the Brule River, reached by a two mile portage, formed a waterway connecting Lake Superior with the Mississippi River.
The first white man to travel the Brule-St. Croix route was the French explorer and trader, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, in 1680. Many traders followed in the next century and a half to harvest the beaver. They had hardly gone before the St. Croix carried the logs and the rafts of the lumbering days, now gone too.
. . . — Map (db m2161) | | Wisconsin (St. Croix County), Hudson — Louis Massey | | | On this site
in 1840,
was erected the home of
Louis Massey,
Hudson's first white settler.
Marked by
Woman's Club of Hudson
May 1930 — Map (db m13100) | | Wisconsin (St. Croix County), River Falls — 165 — Edgar Wilson Nye — 1850 – 1896 | | | "Bill" Nye, journalist, lecturer, author, and humorist, grew to manhood in this quiet valley of the Kinnickinnic, which flows southwesterly through River Falls. The tall-tales of frontier humor were popular regionally before 1860. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Bill Nye widely popularized similar exaggerations until they were considered typically American. In the country church, three-fourths mile eastward, Bill Nye practiced public speaking to empty pews. He was then a student at River Falls . . . — Map (db m9860) |
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