On County Highway A north of Hillside Drive, on the right when traveling north.
In the late 19th century, Wisconsin became one of the leading lumber producing states in the country. Before the construction of Wisconsin's railroads, the state's major rivers were used to transport logs and lumber from northern Wisconsin to . . . — — Map (db m192028) HM
On the morning of June 9, 2008, after several days of drenching rains, flood waters overtopped the banks of Lake Delton and washed away a narrow strip of land separating the lake from the Wisconsin River. Raging waters sent the 267-acre Lake . . . — — Map (db m33281) HM
On State Highway 113, on the right when traveling north.
Merrimac’s first permanent settler, Chester Mattson, obtained a territorial charter in 1848 to provide ferry service across the Wisconsin River. The State Legislature of 1851 authorized a road, subsequently to become State Trunk Highway 113, to . . . — — Map (db m1932) HM
On the Capitol City Trail 0.5 miles west of Lake Farm Road, on the left when traveling west.
Gilman Mounds
Image credits Top Wisconsin Historical Society WHS-95142. Center WHS-58453. Bottom left Jim Welsh. Bottom center WHS-51985. Bottom right WHS-26882.
A damaged mound . . . — — Map (db m304707) HM
Near County Highway C 2 miles west of U.S. 14, on the right when traveling west.
Dedicated to the memory of Jenkin Lloyd Jones
This area of 60 acres has been used since Civil War days by the people of Iowa, Richland and Sauk Counties as a picnic ground and a common meeting place. It is fitting that this land should become . . . — — Map (db m35339) HM
On West Mill Street at West John Street, on the left when traveling north on West Mill Street.
Wallis/Wallace Rowan (1800-1847) was born in Kentucky of Scotch Irish descent. He was a lead miner, trader, innkeeper, land speculator, farmer, and mill owner. In 1818 he married Elizabeth “Betsy” Metcalf in Illinois. By 1828 Rowan was . . . — — Map (db m67233) HM
On South Hamilton Street at West Wilson Street, on the left when traveling south on South Hamilton Street.
This simple Italianate sandstone house, constructed in a masonry pattern peculiar to southern Wisconsin, was built for undersheriff, jailor, and horse dealer Andrew Bishop. It was later owned by W. B. Jarvis, lawyer and land speculator. In the . . . — — Map (db m32441) HM
On State Highway 33 0.1 miles east of Wakerly Lane, on the left when traveling east.
Clare A. Briggs was born in Reedsburg on August 5, 1875 to Mr. and Mrs. William Pardee Briggs.
At an early age Briggs became a sketch artist, and in 1896 he accepted a job as an illustrator with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. After . . . — — Map (db m1649) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
