This scientific area preserved in natural condition for future generations is symbolic of the spirit of Haskell Noyes of Milwaukee (1886-1948) - one of Wisconsin's foremost conservationists. Leader of citizen action for outdoor programs featuring . . . — — Map (db m143242) HM
St. Matthias Mission
Built in 1861
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m73834) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m36007) HM
Fifty feet south of this marker stood the old St. Johannes log church. The congregation of St. Johannes existed in this area from about 1841 to 1853. At this 6 acre location a 20' x 30' log church, parsonage, and school were built. A cemetery . . . — — Map (db m265055) HM
This site marks the Fond du Lac County Farm Cemetery. The Farm, no longer extant, was founded in 1856 to assist indigent and mentally ill county residents. The cemetery, about 65' x 295' in size, was also known as the Courthouse Burial Grounds. . . . — — Map (db m73387) HM
Fond du Lac County
Rolling Meadows
Golf Course
Dedicated to All
War Veterans of
Fond du Lac County
This
Bicentennial Year
1976
A Time Capsule
Containing Historical
Information Sealed
Herein – To Be
Opened . . . — — Map (db m47067) HM
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Drive
Lest We Forget
Placed by
Colonel C. K. Pier Circle
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
1932 — — Map (db m61247) HM
The home of James Duane Doty, oldest residence in Fond du Lac County, was built in 1839. Doty served as Federal Judge, Congressman, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was Governor of Utah when he died. . . . — — Map (db m38487) HM
This engine was built in 1911 by the American Locomotive Company of New York. It was one of four engines purchased by the Wisconsin Central in May, 1911. It was built light for passenger service. It weighs almost 100 tons. It was fired by a . . . — — Map (db m77548) HM
The old Military Road, completed in 1837, served to connect Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago in Portage & Fort Howard in Green Bay. To pay for upkeep, a Toll Gate was placed on Winnebago Drive in the 1850s and collected a 2-cent . . . — — Map (db m289640) HM
On March 1, 1838, Fanna Pier, the first white woman to live in Fond du Lac County, died at the age of 30 after a short illness. Her death was the first of a white person in the county. This plot of high ground was selected for the burial two days . . . — — Map (db m70250) HM
(engraving) First Fond du Lac Home
Fanna Pier 1838
Daughter of Nathan and Betsey Kendell, wife of Colwert Pier, died March 1, 1838 aged 30. Being the first white female resident and the first death in the County of Fond du Lac. . . . — — Map (db m71325) HM
Supple's Marsh came into being along with Lake Winnebago after retreat of a glacial ice sheet that covered this region 10,000 years ago.
The retreating glacier deposited gravel and rocks that blocked ancient northward flowing drainage systems . . . — — Map (db m62063) HM
The Military Road, built in 1835, became the first highway to cross the state. Congress appropriated $5,000 to connect the St. Lawrence and Mississippi River basins.
The troops at Fort Crawford constructed the road from Prairie du Chien to . . . — — Map (db m46182) HM
This monument honoring local Civil War soldiers resulted from the nationalist sentiment following the war. In 1894 local artist and Fond du Lac resident Mark Harrison bequeathed $500 to erect a monument in what is now Veterans Park.
On June 7, . . . — — Map (db m120322) HM
Dedicated to all veterans
who have served our country
past – present – future.
We shall not forget.
1995
Second Ward
Honoring those who
answered their countries
call in World War II.
These gave their . . . — — Map (db m61245) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m3648) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m3293) HM
Parish Founded in 1841
Present Church Built and Consecrated in 1857
Steeple Entrance and Sanctuary
added in the early 1890s
In Memory of
Clarence and Frances (Olig) Haensgen — — Map (db m162300) HM
Saint John Evangelical
Lutheran Church • Built 1871
New Fane, Wisconsin
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m60194) HM
The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad had a depot in Ripon along the present day Northwest Trail, near Pacific Street. That building burned down on March 16, 1872 at 9:30 p.m. The fire department could have easily saved the building but the . . . — — Map (db m298462) HM
The Mapes Hotel is one of the oldest buildings in downtown Ripon. It was built in the 1850s as the Mapes House by Timothy Mapes, son of Ripon co-founder David Mapes. After surviving major fire damage in the early 1900s and threat of demolition more . . . — — Map (db m298461) HM
1905–1973 · Public Library (relocated)
1973–1996 · Pearl's House of Fashion
1996–Present · Accurate Controls
The majority of the money for the building of this library was given to the city by Andrew Carnegie. There was much . . . — — Map (db m61763) HM
The neoclassical Ripon Public Library building was funded through a grant from the Carnegie Foundation. It served as the community library until a new one was built in 1973. At that time a human chain was utilized, passing books from hand-to-hand . . . — — Map (db m298443) HM
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. At the same time he suggested the name "Republican" because he . . . — — Map (db m230206) HM
In this school house on March 20, 1854 was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitely and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name Republican. — — Map (db m64806) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m4331) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m4330) HM
First Baptist Church of Ripon
1857
Entered on the National
Register of Historic Places by
the United States Department
of the Interior
July 21, 2006
This building and grounds were presented to the Frank H. Brown Post 43, . . . — — Map (db m82500) HM
The Grand View Hotel, considered by many to be one of the finest establishments in the Midwest, was a magnificent structure at the North end of the square where City Hall is now located. The hotel replaced the American House in 1872, a two-story . . . — — Map (db m298451) HM
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, . . . — — Map (db m3596) HM
The public square starts on the north end of the Watson Street Commercial Historic District which is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places. The square has been used as a gathering place since Ripon's founding. The American . . . — — Map (db m298454) HM
This mural depicts the original Long House of the Wisconsin Phalanx, the first settlers of the Ripon area, who arrived on May 27, 1844. In a valley between two hills, these settlers founded the community of Ceresco, constructed several commonly . . . — — Map (db m298459) HM
Founded in 1844, and named for Ceres the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceresco was the home of the Wisconsin Phalanx, an experiment in utopian association living, according to the rule of the French social philosopher Charles Fourier. Under the . . . — — Map (db m283420) HM
In 1920 Wilbur Sisson established the first section of his Peony Gardens at this location. In 1929 he hired Jesse Phillips as his assistant and eventual partner to design and build a gateway arch and windmill for the entrance. These structures were . . . — — Map (db m48438) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m4118) HM
Named in his honor, Kiekhaefer Park represents the successful efforts of Fond du Lac industrialist and engineering genius Elmer Carl Kiekhaefer to preserve the environmental integrity of the Taycheedah community. In 1970, Kiekhaefer led a charge . . . — — Map (db m269712) HM
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) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m25637) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m25403) HM
Horicon Marsh, an area of 31,653 acres, was scoured out by the Wisconsin glacier, at least 10,000 years ago. Gradually the upper Rock River made deposits which slowed its current and spread its waters over the marshland. The Marsh became a haunt of . . . — — Map (db m23090) HM
