In 1989, inspection of the Lake Ilo dam found that critical maintenance was needed. A notch cut into the spillway lowered the water about 7 feet so the work could be completed. The exposed lake bed revealed remarkable discoveries and mysteries of . . . — — Map (db m153143) HM
Chelsey and Polly Dinkins played a major role in the construction and operation of this dam and National Wildlife Refuge known as Lake Ilo.
Chelsey Dinkins was the foreman of the Works Progress Administrations (WPA) crew that built the dam in . . . — — Map (db m152944) HM
On July 28, 1864, a U.S. military force, commanded by General Alfred Sully, attacked several groups of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota (Sioux) Nations camped at this location. Major Sioux leaders included Medicine Bear and Sitting Bull. Sully's force . . . — — Map (db m152945) HM
On this site during the Civil War Caroline Augusta Woodhouse, known throughout the world as "Caddie Woodlawn," experienced the excitement of growing up in pioneer Wisconsin. Her tomboy adventures with her two red-headed brothers, and her fearless . . . — — Map (db m31194) HM
This stone, named Dunnville Sandstone, was quarried in a location first discovered in 1882 by surveyors for the railroad. Stone such as this was used for constructing our shelter house, the Mabel Tainter Memorial building in Menomonie, the St. . . . — — Map (db m46113) HM
The Chippewa and Sioux Indians roamed this area before the French fur traders came trapping fur bearing animals which were plentiful along the Eau Galle River.
The real history of the village of Eau Galle began in 1838-39 when a sawmill was . . . — — Map (db m32868) HM
When a new building for The Stout Manual Training School was built in 1897, this bell was installed in the clock tower to sound the hours of the day. Large and expensive, this bell was truly an investment in, and a symbol of, the promising future of . . . — — Map (db m88418) HM
Here and northeast of here lies the vast Chippewa Valley. At the start of lumbering in Wisconsin it held one-sixth of the nation’s white pine. Surveyors estimated the total pine stand in the state at 136 billion board feet of prime lumber. Lumbermen . . . — — Map (db m2059) HM
Up the hill on the left lies patriot Dr. Stephen Tainter, born October 13, 1760, in Westborough, Massachusetts. He first enlisted in December 1776, at the age of sixteen, as a drummer with Captain Kimball's company in Colonel Sparhawk's . . . — — Map (db m21255) HM
Evergreen Cemetery
In 1873, local lumber company Knapp, Stout & Company, Co. provided fifty-two acres to establish a proper burial site. They hired landscape architects, William Merchant Richardson French and Horace Shaler Cleveland, to . . . — — Map (db m88546) HM
Where were these "Buffaloes and Elks?" Wyoming? Montana? No, they were feeding in the prairies along the banks of the Chippewa River, roaming as far north as Chippewa Falls.
The dry conditions of prairies allowed only certain grasses, . . . — — Map (db m41894) HM
Where were these "Buffaloes and Elks?" Wyoming? Montana? No, they were feeding in the prairies along the banks of the Chippewa River, roaming as far north as Chippewa Falls.
The dry conditions of prairies allowed only certain grasses, . . . — — Map (db m43096) HM
Many sites along this historic corridor testify to the longstanding cooperation between Menomonie and the educational institution founded by James Huff Stout in 1891. The university and city continue to foster the vision of learning and opportunity. — — Map (db m88416) HM
The bank was incorporated in this building July 3, 1879. It has served the financial needs of the community since that date.
Senator James H. Stout, for whom the University is named, was President from 1906-1910. — — Map (db m88413) HM
In Honor of Company H
To those who offered their
lives in defense of their ideals
and in memory of those who
*gave the last full measure of devotion*
Albert Nathness · Harry C. Nelson · Emmett C. Hill · *William H. Buckland · . . . — — Map (db m40655) HM
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of the . . . — — Map (db m9854) HM
Built in 1850, the Stori House Hotel occupied this site. It was a stage coach stop and the "coffee house" of Menomonie.
A circuit court and many social events where held here.
It was demolished in 1964. At that time, it was the oldest . . . — — Map (db m46700) HM
The savanna was among the numerous types of plant communities found in pre-settlement Wisconsin. The environment of the savanna falls between that of forest and prairie. It can be described as having between one and twenty trees per acre. There . . . — — Map (db m89807) HM
The outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 did not involve the United States directly. Americans expected to remain neutral in the struggle between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy against Germany and its allies. The desire for neutrality . . . — — Map (db m2167) HM
