Near Grand Crossing Boulevard West, 0.1 miles south of 20th Street West.
In 1882, a dramatic rescue of white captives held by a band of hostile Santee
Sioux, took place near this spot. A group of eleven young Teton Sioux boys left
Ft. Pierre on a cold November day determined to overtake and meet with the Santees to . . . — — Map (db m180985) HM
On Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.1 miles south of 20th Street W.
In 1906, one hundred years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through this area, Milwaukee Railroad crews labored to build a bridge across the Missouri River. They carefully worked, balancing themselves on high metal beams as the . . . — — Map (db m112089) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.6 miles north of Park Blvd..
One of the most notable women in American History may well be Sakakawea. A Shoshoni Indian girl named Sakakawea, acted as an interpreter while traveling with the Corps of Discovery on their way to and from the Pacific Ocean. As the Corps headed . . . — — Map (db m112141) HM
On Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1 at Park Blvd on Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1.
Near present-day Mobridge, South Dakota, Captain William Clark wrote in his journal that he saw "White bear" tracks. These tracks, which are "…3 times as large as a mans track…" were actually from a grizzly bear.
During the entire . . . — — Map (db m112150) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.6 miles north of Park Blvd..
During the Indian uprisings in Minnesota in 1862, a band of Santee Sioux Indians took several white women and children captive. They brought them to an area near here, opposite the mouth of the Grand River in present-day Walworth County, South . . . — — Map (db m112137) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 1.3 miles south of 20th Street W.
In 1806, not long after Lewis and Clark passed through this area, a young man was born in a Village near the Grand River (near present-day Mobridge, South Dakota). This young man, known as Sitting Bull, was a famous Sioux medicine man and . . . — — Map (db m112116) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1 at Park Blvd..
Captain William Clark enlisted his slave, York, as one of the members of the Corps of Discovery. York grew up in Virginia with Clark and traveled with the party during the entire journey to the Pacific Ocean and back to St. Louis, Missouri.
. . . — — Map (db m112155) HM
Near Grand Crossing Blvd. W, 0.1 miles 20th Street W.
Here on Sept. 9, 1807 Ensign Nathaniel Pryor attempting of return Big White, Mandan Chief, to his people was stopped and had 19 Casualties in the First battle with Indians in South Dakota. — — Map (db m112092) HM
On Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.1 miles south of 20th Street W.
A bit of history lies under the water behind Oahe Dam. Before the dam was built many islands and sandbars were commonly found along the Missouri River. When the Corps of Discovery traveled along this river on the way to the Pacific Ocean they . . . — — Map (db m112088) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 1.3 miles south of 20th Street W.
Leadership in the American Indian culture is much different than the Euro-American views. Unlike the Euro-American concept of a formal majority vote to select a leader, American Indians were made leaders by those who simply chose to follow them. . . . — — Map (db m112118) HM
On Grand Crossing Blvd. W, 0.1 miles 20th Street W.
Here on October 9-12, 1804 Lewis & Clark counseled and sojourned with the Aricara Indians and were again here on their return from the Pacific on August 21-22, 1806. — — Map (db m112106) HM
On Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.6 miles 20th Street W.
By the 1500s, the descendants of the Skiri Pawnee People, the Arikara (or Ree) Indians, inhabited this area. Twelve village bands lived along the Missouri River in present-day South Dakota. Three of the villages were near the mouth of the . . . — — Map (db m112108) HM
Near Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 1.3 miles south of 20th Street W.
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery' to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired . . . — — Map (db m112122) HM
Lewis and Clark
The Lewis a nd Clark Expedition, officially the Corps of Discovery, was in what is now South Dakota from August 21 to October 14, 1804 and from August 21 to September 4, 1806.
While here they would make numerous . . . — — Map (db m112145) HM
Near Grand Crossing Blvd. W, 0.1 miles 20th Street W.
1924
Mobridge Bridge
Dedicated to
The People of South Dakota
November 12, 1924
Built under the Direction of
The State Highway Commission
Governor W.H. McMaster - Chairman
Made possible by loans to the State of South Dakota . . . — — Map (db m112105) HM
Near Grand Crossing Blvd. W, 0.1 miles 20th Street W.
Here on Sept. 12, 1809 Pierre Choteau Managed to Pass the Aricara with Big White.
Here in June - July 1811 Manuel Lisa & Astorians joined forced, Pacified and traded with the Aricara — — Map (db m112107) HM
On Revheim Road East, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated to the early settlers of the Mobridge area, Revheim Park is named for Mons J. Revheim who established a homestead on this site in 1881. During the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, thousands of landseekers headed for western Dakota Territory . . . — — Map (db m154041) HM
Near Marker is on Lewis & Clark Interpretive Trail 1, 0.6 miles 20th Street W.
This wide, low moving, Missouri River of today is quite different from when the Corps of Discovery navigated in then torrent waters in 1804. Lewis and Clark fought against the strong current, using ropes to pull the boat upstream. By the time . . . — — Map (db m112114) HM
On U.S. 83 close to U.S. 12, on the right when traveling south.
This monument marks the side of Bangor County seat of Walworth County 1884 -1909 Scranton 1883-1884 Bangor 1884-1904 Selby 1904-1905 Bangor 1905-1909 Selby 1909-1950 — — Map (db m190167) HM
On 307th Avenue (U.S. 12) 0.5 miles north of Scranton Ave, on the right when traveling north.
George T. was born to George and Emma on a farm south of Selby
in 1903. He received his education here and at the University of
SD graduating with a law degree in 1927. Madge Turner and he were
married in 1928. While operating his own law firm . . . — — Map (db m190168) HM
On 4th Ave at Scranton Street, on the right when traveling south on 4th Ave.
Dedicated to all Veterans
Men & Women Through Peace or War
Their Memories will Never Die
They fought Honor to our Country
And Promise to our Dreams
Walworth County Veterans Memorial
Sponsored by
Frederick Schauer Legion Post . . . — — Map (db m112047) WM
On 134th Street (U.S. 12) close to 309th Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
Historically that meridian is significant. For two generations the Insurance Companies and other worldwide lending agencies would not, as a matter of agreed policy, lend a shiny dime west of this line. There reason was that some geographer had . . . — — Map (db m177393) HM
On Clinton Street, 0.1 miles north of County Route X, on the right when traveling east.
Philip Allen, a Revolutionary War veteran, and his children, Philip Jr., Harvey, Sidney, Pliny, Asa Keyes, and Persis, came from New York in May, 1845, to settle in Allen Grove. Sixty-five Allens traveled by canal boat, steamboat, and overland from . . . — — Map (db m33615) HM
On Du Sable Drive at Dunbar Avenue on Du Sable Drive.
Lake Ivanhoe was established in 1926 as the first Black-founded resort community in Wisconsin. Black people moved away from the South to escape the racial oppression of Jim Crow and to pursue better schooling and jobs; but they still faced racial . . . — — Map (db m245031) HM
This tablet in honor of
John Bruce
One of the earliest settlers in Darien
and donor of the land for this park
to the Village of Darien
This highway is an old Indian Trail
and Territorial Road. It was, and now is,
used as a . . . — — Map (db m39005) HM
On South Seventh Street at Wisconsin Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Seventh Street.
At this site, March 20, 1871, the first P.T. Barnum Circus was loaded on rail cars and transported to Brooklyn, NY where it made its initial performance on April 10, 1871. The circus was conceived and organized in Delavan by William C. Coup and Dan . . . — — Map (db m109261) HM
On East Walworth Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Main Street, on the right when traveling west.
Dusty and rutted in dry spells, muddy and miserable in wet, Delavan’s main street, Walworth Avenue, remained unpaved from the 1830’s until the second decade of the 20th century. In 1911, Delavan’s City Council voted to pave the three block central . . . — — Map (db m230140) HM
On West Walworth Avenue (State Highway 11) at North Vine Street, on the right when traveling west on West Walworth Avenue.
In 1847 two New York brothers, Edmund and Jeremiah Mabie, toured Wisconsin with their United States Olympic Circus. The circus stopped over in Delavan and the brothers took time off to hunt prairie chicken near Delavan Lake. They liked the area so . . . — — Map (db m230139) HM
On West Walworth Avenue (State Highway 11) at Beloit Street (County Route X), on the right when traveling west on West Walworth Avenue.
In 1839 Ebenezer Cheseboro emigrated to Wisconsin from New York and settled in the town of Darien, two miles west of Delavan on the Janesville road. Due to the lack of a school for his deaf daughter, Ariadna, a teacher of the deaf was hired to come . . . — — Map (db m33473) HM
On Church St., 0.2 miles north of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
The East Troy Railroad is the last vestige of Wisconsin’s once broad network of electric interurban railways. Concentrated in the southeastern quarter of the State this network once totaled approximately 385 miles of track. Most of the interurban . . . — — Map (db m80526) HM
On East Rockwell Street at South Washington Street, on the left when traveling west on East Rockwell Street.
Originally erected in the public square in 1836, this edifice was the local land office during Wisconsin’s territorial years. It was abandoned in 1840 and later moved to this site. From 1857 until his death in 1875, this was the home of noted . . . — — Map (db m40439) HM
Carl Friman (1781-1862) emigrated from Sweden with five sons in 1838 and purchased 80 acres near Genoa City. The Friman family members were recognized as the first Swedes to settle permanently in Wisconsin. Returning to his homeland, Friman . . . — — Map (db m42498) HM
On Wrigley Drive at Center Street, on the left when traveling south on Wrigley Drive.
1877 Sidney Smith 1935
This statue of "Andy Gump", celebrated cartoon character introduced in 1917 as the first daily comic strip in the Chicago Tribune, was the first erected in 1924 on the Lake Geneva estate of his originator, . . . — — Map (db m87289) HM
On Dodge Street east of Maxwell Street, on the right when traveling west.
Robert J. Bart, 22nd Wisconsin, Company G • John W. Beeden, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Company E • William H. Case, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry, Company G • Lieutenant Asa W. Fars, 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry, Companies A, F & S • David Fairchild, 49th . . . — — Map (db m241431) WM
On Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50) at Cook Street, on the left when traveling west on Main Street.
A History of Lake Geneva
The Geneva Lake area has been inhabited since at least 8000 B.C., beginning with Paleo-Indians and later the Oneota culture followed by the Potawatomi Indians. The first recorded explorers included Col. John Kinzie . . . — — Map (db m241381) HM
On Williams Street (County Route H) at North Street, on the left when traveling north on Williams Street.
On this site in 1890, the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad built a new passenger depot to replace an earlier wood frame building. The structure consisted of three separate red brick buildings, including a baggage house, awaiting room and ticket . . . — — Map (db m241433) HM
On Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50) at Broad Street, on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
Main Street Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Dating from the 1860's Lake Geneva's Historic District buildings illustrate Italianate, Classical Revival, . . . — — Map (db m241378) HM
Main Street Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
Dating from the 1860's Lake Geneva's Historic District buildings illustrate Italianate, Classical Revival, . . . — — Map (db m241379) HM
On Broad Street at Geneva Street, on the right when traveling south on Broad Street.
The Maple Park Historic District was platted as the first residential district in the original Village of Geneva in 1837. It includes the first town square (Maple Park) and Pioneer Cemetery. It also contains many of the earliest residences dating . . . — — Map (db m76588) HM
On Cook Street north of Main Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Maple Park Historic District was platted as the first residential district in the original Village of Geneva in 1837. It includes the first town square (Maple Park) and Pioneer Cemetery. It also contains many of the earliest residences dating . . . — — Map (db m220892) HM
On Warren Street at Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50), on the right when traveling north on Warren Street.
The Maple Park Historic District was platted as the first residential district in the original Village of Geneva in 1837. It includes the first town square (Maple Park) and Pioneer Cemetery. It also contains many of the earliest residences dating . . . — — Map (db m241426) HM
On Dodge Street near Warren Street, on the right when traveling west.
The first cemetery in Lake Geneva. In 1837, seven men who were early landowners in section 36, gave land to the village for public purposes. They wanted areas for parks, churches, schools, & a cemetery. Thomas McKaig was hired to survey the land. . . . — — Map (db m241429) HM
On Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50) west of Cook Street, on the right when traveling east.
Between 1895 and 1954, the Lake Geneva Public Library was housed in a wooden house on this site. the house had been built by Geneva attorney Asa W. Farr in the late 1850's. During the Civil War, Farr was a lieutenant in the Union Army. Unarmed, he . . . — — Map (db m241389) HM
On Baker Street east of Wrigley Drive, on the right when traveling west.
At the crest of the hill in this park overlooking Geneva Lake, the Lake Geneva Seminary (For Young Ladies) was built for its founder, Anna W. Moody, in December 1867. It served as a preparatory school for young women for almost three decades. In . . . — — Map (db m241420) HM
On West Main Street (State Highway 50) at Mill Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
In 1837 early settlers in the Village of Geneva constructed this Mill Race to harness the power of the White River, the only outlet from Geneva Lake. Soon flour mills saw mills and factories were constructed and in 1897 electricity was generated by . . . — — Map (db m161019) HM
[On the etched stone:]
I am not a badge of Honor,
I am not a racist smear,
I am not a fashion statement
To be worn but once a year,
I am not glorification
Of conflict or of war.
I am not a paper ornament
A token,
I am more.
I . . . — — Map (db m241421) WM
The Riviera was designed by architect James Roy Allen
and constructed during the Depression by the city
of Lake Geneva to provide jobs for local workers.
The cost of $55,000 was paid by the sale of public
bonds. Construction began on March 2, . . . — — Map (db m220921) HM
On Wrigley Drive, 0.1 miles south of Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50), on the right when traveling north.
Across Geneva Lake's outlet to the north at the foot of Broad Street stood Lake Geneva's first resort hotel, the four story Whiting House. It was built by David T. Whiting in April, 1873 and burned to the ground on July 9, 1894.
The Hotel . . . — — Map (db m241365) HM
On Mill Street north of Main Street (Wisconsin Route 50).
The Geneva Area Museum of History is housed in the former Wisconsin Power & Light Building. The Lake Geneva Water & Light Co. built the original building in 1894 and expanded it in 1929. In 1897 the Haskins Electric Co. first generated electricity . . . — — Map (db m241377) HM
On County Route BB, 0.5 miles west of Hillside Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Linn Junior Farmers Club was the first 4-H Club organized in Wisconsin. Mrs. May Hatch, local community leader, and Thomas L. Bewick, newly appointed State Boys and Girls Club Leader at the University of Wisconsin, organized the club here on the . . . — — Map (db m191342) HM
On Bluff Road at Palmyra Road (County Highway Z), on the left when traveling east on Bluff Road.
Patriot David Janes served the cause of gaining our nation's independence from England while a dedicated member of the military. A descendant of William Bradford III, the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony, David was born in 1762. In the . . . — — Map (db m46669) HM
On East Main Street at North Wakely Street, on the left when traveling east on East Main Street.
Two Revolutionary war veterans, Eli Pearce and Israel Ferris, are buried in this cemetery.
Born August 24, 1760, in Middleborough, Massachusetts, Eli Pierce enlisted April 13, 1776, and served six months in Col. Christopher Lippett's Rhode . . . — — Map (db m43483) HM
On West Whitewater Street, on the right when traveling north.
This pioneer-era stone stable was originally located in the alley near the First English Lutheran Church on Main Street and was moved to its present site near the Depot Museum in 2007. The stone stable is a rare example of early stone construction . . . — — Map (db m191292) HM
On West Whitewater Street at S. Fremont Street, on the right when traveling east on West Whitewater Street.
This abandoned passenger depot, purchased by the City of Whitewater in April 1973 and leased to the Whitewater Historical Society for 99 years, was dedicated as a museum July 21, 1974. The 85-year old classic Victorian structure was the hub of . . . — — Map (db m68446) HM
The Whitewater Passenger Depot was built in 1890-91 for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, later known as the Milwaukee Road. It replaced the original frame depot, which was erected in 1852 when the railroad first came to Whitewater. The . . . — — Map (db m191295) HM
Near State Highway 67, 0.2 miles south of Palmer Road, on the right when traveling north.
Side A The Williams Bay Air Force Radar Station, home of the 755th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, was part of a nationwide Cold War effort to defend the continent against possible airborne attack from the Soviet Union. In the years . . . — — Map (db m40472) HM