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Entries Containing All of the Phrases «walworth county» AND «wisconsin»

This list will also include matches for inflectional* forms of the words.
 
By Jim Schaettle, April 25, 2021
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1 ► Wisconsin, Dane County, Madison — This Cabin... / Esta Cabańa...
On East Dayton Street at North Hamilton Street, on the left when traveling west on East Dayton Street. Reported missing.
English: was originally built by the Faistel family in Walworth County, Wis. Local stories indicate the Faistels built their home overlooking Crooked Creek sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s. The Faistels were among the very . . . — — Map (db m170936) HM

2 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Delavan — 166 — Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf —
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

3 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Little Prairie — Revolutionary War Veteran —
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

4 ► New York, Livingston County, Mount Morris — John Wesley Powell —
On Swett Street just east of N Main Street (New York State Route 36), on the left when traveling east.
John Wesley Powell was born in Mount Morris, New York, 1834, the son of Joseph and Mary Powell. His father, a poor itinerant preacher, had emigrated to the U.S. from Shrewsbury, England, in 1830. His family moved westward to Jackson, Ohio, then . . . — — Map (db m205966) HM

5 ► Wisconsin, Waukesha County, Waukesha — 34-10 — Lyman Goodnow —
Near South Prairie Avenue 0.2 miles north of Progress Avenue.
Erected to the memory of 1799 - Lyman Goodnow - 1884 First conductor of Wisconsin's underground railroad In 1842 he conveyed Caroline Quarrels, an escaped slave, to Canada and freedom. — — Map (db m44584) HM

6 ► Wisconsin, Racine County, Rochester, Burlington — Revolutionary War Veteran —
On Washington Avenue (County Hwy D), on the right when traveling east.
Salmon Child, born on September 19, 1765, in Woodstock, Connecticut, enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War at the age of 16. Child participated in several "alarms" against the British while serving in Colonel Holtham Dunham's Company of . . . — — Map (db m269158) HM
7 ► Wisconsin, Winnebago County, Winchester — 225 — Samuel N. Rogers, Sr. — Soldier of the American Revolution —
On Grandview Road 0.4 miles west of U.S. 45, on the right when traveling west.
Born on June 3, 1760, at Branford, Connecticut, Samuel N. Rogers, Sr., served several terms of enlistment with Captain Peck’s Company, Col. Roger Enos’ Regiment of the Connecticut Militia from 1777 to 1781. Following the war, he moved to New York . . . — — Map (db m11043) HM

8 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Lake Geneva — Historic Lake Geneva —
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 in . . . — — Map (db m241381) HM
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Nov. 13, 2026