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Wisconsin Historical Society Historical Markers

Markers of the Wisconsin Historical Markers Program administered by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
 
By Keith L, September 2, 2007
Korean War Marker
301 ► Wisconsin, Marquette County, Westfield — 294 — Korean War —
On June 25, 1950, Communist North Korea invaded the Republic of Korea. Backed by Soviet Russia, the North Koreans quickly overran most of the peninsula. South Korea appealed to the United States for assistance, and President Harry Truman immediately . . . — — Map (db m2788) HM
302 ► Wisconsin, Marquette County, Westfield — 430 — Russell Flats School —
Built in 1867, this one room rural school has served as the center of community life in Russell Flats for over 130 years. Constructed by Scotch-Irish settlers who arrived here in the early 1850s, the school has also functioned as the local . . . — — Map (db m20121) HM
303 ► Wisconsin, Menominee County, Keshena — 69 — Menominee Reservation —
When Nicolet in 1634 stepped ashore not far from the present site of Green Bay, the Menominees were living in peace with their neighbors on both sides of the Menominee River, on the present sites of Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette, Wisconsin. . . . — — Map (db m13622) HM
304 ► Wisconsin, Menominee County, Keshena — 127 — Spirit Rock —
One night long ago a Menominee Indian dreamed that Manabush, grandson of Ko-Ko-Mas-Say-Sa-Now (the Earth) and part founder of the Mitawin or Medicine Society, invited him to visit the god. With seven of his friends the Indian called on Manabush who . . . — — Map (db m13602) HM
305 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Bay View — 614 — Johanna Brotch: Female Ship Owner —
Johanna "Jennie" Brotch, considered Bay View's first female ship owner, lived in this house from 1890 to 1949. Emigrating from Prussia in 1869, she owned two schooners - the Sassacus and the Arctic - sailed by her husband, Captain John Brotch. . . . — — Map (db m254390) HM
306 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greendale — 196 — Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin — (1835-1906) —
Born in Detroit to Irish immigrant parents, Curtin came to Milwaukee in 1837 to join his mother’s family the Furlongs and settle on a farm in Greenfield. In the 1840’s the Curtins moved into this typically Irish stone house described in Curtin’s . . . — — Map (db m34760) HM
307 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greendale — 279 — Wisconsin's Lime Industry —
Lime production was an important nineteenth century industry in southeastern Wisconsin, primarily because the region’s geology provided abundant Silurian dolomite rock that was easily quarried. High quality lime, used mainly in mortar and plaster, . . . — — Map (db m37508) HM
308 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greendale, Greendale Historic District — 460 — Village of Greendale —
Greendale was one of three Greenbelt towns constructed by the Federal Government during the 1930s. The main objectives were to demonstrate a planning concept combining the best of country and city living, to provide good housing for low income . . . — — Map (db m33210) HM
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309 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greenfield — 524 — Cold Spring Road —
Side A In 1836, surveyors working for the U.S. General Land Office measured out the 6x6 mile grid of the future Town of Greenfield. Arterial roads and streets were later built at half-mile intervals following that pattern. In the days before . . . — — Map (db m35083) HM
310 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greenfield — 341 — Greenfield: The Last Town in Milwaukee County —
Following the end of World War II, Milwaukee’s rapid urban development forced the seven rural towns of Milwaukee County into annexation or incorporation. When Greenfield incorporated as a city in 1957, the last of Milwaukee County’s towns . . . — — Map (db m34761) HM
311 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greenfield — 558 — Historic Root River / Root River Parkway —
The Root River system began forming about 20,000 years ago when Wisconsin’s glaciers began to retreat. Starting in eastern New Berlin, it flows through southwest Milwaukee County before entering Lake Michigan at the city of Racine (French for . . . — — Map (db m81350) HM
312 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greenfield — 448 — Janesville Plank Road —
Side A: The Janesville Plank Road was one of 16 privately-owned toll roads authorized by Wisconsin’s Territorial legislature in 1848. The road was specified to follow a 65 mile route from Milwaukee through East Troy to Janesville. Its . . . — — Map (db m33355) HM
313 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Greenfield — 578 — The Land Survey of 1836 / Greenfield’s 1836 Greenery —
The Land Survey of 1836 In 1836 US Government land surveyors measured an approximately six-mile square area described as Township 6 North, Range 21 East and divided it into a nearly-uniform grid of 36 one-mile square sections. By 1841 this area . . . — — Map (db m136420) HM
314 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee — 604 — Garden Homes — A Public Housing Milestone —
The Garden Homes Historic District was the first municipally sponsored housing project in America. Safe, decent, and affordable housing for working-class families had long been a goal of the Socialists who came to power in Milwaukee in 1910. Mayor . . . — — Map (db m227182) HM
315 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee — Kilbourntown —
In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown's first residents were entrepreneurs from the East. In 1839, a small group of German . . . — — Map (db m255190) HM
316 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee — 609 — St. Boniface Catholic Church — March on, Milwaukee —
St. Boniface and its campus at 1122 W. Clarke Street were the epicenter of Milwaukee’s civil rights movement. A Catholic church with a predominantly Black congregation, St. Boniface served as a hub during the 200 consecutive days of open housing . . . — — Map (db m235789) HM
317 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Arlington Heights — 644 — St. Mark AME Church —
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the oldest historically Black congregation in Milwaukee, has served as a cornerstone of Milwaukee’s Black community since its founding in 1869. Organized by a group of community leaders that . . . — — Map (db m314586) HM
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318 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Avenues West — 311 — Captain Frederick Pabst — (1836 – 1904) —
Of German birth, Pabst became a ship's captain in the 1850s and moved to Milwaukee in the 1860s. He later joined his father-in-law's brewery (founded 1844), which was renamed the Pabst Brewery in 1889. By the 1890s it was the world's largest lager . . . — — Map (db m8306) HM
319 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Avenues West — 411 — Mabel Wanda Raimey — 1898 - 1986 —
Mabel Raimey was the first African-American woman attorney in Wisconsin and the first to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1918). She attended Marquette University Law School and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 1927. An . . . — — Map (db m95799) HM
320 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Bay View — 372 — Bay View’s Immigrants —
From a quiet mid 19th–century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinninckinnic Avenue in only twenty years, Bay View’s industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant . . . — — Map (db m34803) HM
321 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Bay View — 275 — Bay View's Rolling Mill —
Near this site in Bay View stood the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill, the first major heavy industry in the region and an important producer of iron and steel for the Midwest. The mill, which opened in 1868, transformed ore from Dodge County and . . . — — Map (db m75452) HM
322 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Bay View — 221 — General Mitchell Field —
On October 29, 1926, Milwaukee County purchased the flying field which Thomas Hamilton had established in 1920 on East Layton Avenue in connection with his propeller business. Northwest Airways inaugurated scheduled passenger service here on July 5, . . . — — Map (db m38870) HM
323 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Downer Woods — 206 — Carl Sandburg Hall —
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, balladeer, biographer of Lincoln, soldier in the Spanish-American War, came from Illinois to Wisconsin in December 1907 as a state organizer for the Social-Democratic party in eastern Wisconsin. After marrying . . . — — Map (db m32619) HM
324 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Downer Woods — 256 — Golda Meir — 1898-1978 —
The UWM Library is named for Golda Meir. Born Goldie Mabowehz in the Ukraine, she migrated to Milwaukee in 1906, was educated at Fourth Street School, North Division High School, and in present Mitchell Hall of Milwaukee Normal School (1916-17). She . . . — — Map (db m32664) HM
325 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Downer Woods — 147 — Milwaukee-Downer College —
On September 14, 1848, Mrs. William L. Parsons, the wife of a Congregational minister, opened the Milwaukee Female Seminary at the corner of Milwaukee and East Wells. Three years later it was chartered by the Legislature, thus placing Wisconsin in . . . — — Map (db m32667) HM
326 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Downer Woods — 308 — The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee —
Milwaukee’s State Normal School, which was founded in 1885 on the city’s west side to train teachers, relocated in 1909 to this building, Mitchell Hall, then located on 11–1/2 acres. Designed by Van Ryn and de Gelleke, expanded in 1912, and named . . . — — Map (db m32666) HM
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327 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 131 — First Milwaukee Cargo Pier —
Near here, at the foot of Huron (now Clybourn) Street, the first cargo pier in Milwaukee harbor was built by Horatio Stevens, Richard Owens, Amos Tufts and J.G. Kendall during the winter of 1842-43. The first vessel to dock at North Pier was the . . . — — Map (db m31137) HM
328 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 57 — Oneida Street Station — T.M.E.R. & L. Co. — (Now Wisconsin Electric Power Co.) —
In this station pulverized coal was first successfully burned continuously and at high efficiencies in furnaces of stationary steam boilers November 11-15, 1919. This radical departure from conventional firing methods of the period was vigorously . . . — — Map (db m80527) HM
329 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 309 — Pabst Theater —
Designed by Otto Strack and built by Milwaukee brewing magnate Captain Frederick Pabst, the Pabst Theater was constructed on the site of an earlier opera house destroyed by fire in 1895. The Pabst was completed in just six months and opened on . . . — — Map (db m32367) HM
330 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 463 — Rescue of Joshua Glover —
Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine in 1852. In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him. This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to captured escaped slaves. Glover was . . . — — Map (db m33013) HM
331 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, East Town — 284 — Wisconsin's Oldest Newspaper — The Milwaukee Sentinel —
The Milwaukee Sentinel has chronicled the events of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the world longer than any other newspaper in the state. Founded as a weekly on June 27, 1837 by Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee’s first mayor, the Sentinel was first published . . . — — Map (db m32369) HM
332 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Forest Home Hills — 636 — Chinese Cemetery Garden — 華人墓園 —
Section 48 is the final resting place for many deceased Milwaukee Chinese people. The Chinese Relief Association, established on December 11, 1947, by businessmen Joe Wong. Evan Gong, and Chiu Shing, supported the Chinese who lived and died in . . . — — Map (db m310843) HM
333 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Halyard Park — 631 — Milwaukee Chinese Laundry Era —
From 1940 to 1976, the Fred Moy Laundry was located here at 1935 N. 3rd St. (Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Dr.), where it typified the many Chinese laundries in the Milwaukee central city for over 100 years. The Moy family lived upstairs, where its . . . — — Map (db m287950) HM
334 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Hillside Neighborhood — 5th Street Freedom House —
In August 1966, the NAACP Youth Council established a headquarters at 2026 N. 5th Street. The Freedom House deepened the Youth Council's ties to the surrounding community and was a place for members to relax, eat, sleep, and socialize - a second . . . — — Map (db m257826) HM
335 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Historic Third Ward — 327 — Sinking of the Lady Elgin —
The loss of the sidewheel steamship Lady Elgin was one of Lake Michigan’s most tragic maritime disasters. On September 8th, 1860, the ship, returning to Milwaukee from Chicago, sank following a collision nine miles off Winnetka, Illinois. . . . — — Map (db m37263) HM
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336 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Historic Third Ward — 310 — Third Ward Fire — 1892 —
On the evening of October 28, 1892, an exploding oil barrel started a small fire in the Union Oil and Paint company warehouse, which was located at 323 N. Water Street. Another fire broke out in a nearby factory in the 300 block of N. Broadway, . . . — — Map (db m105780) HM
337 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Historic Water Tower — 201 — Old North Point Water Tower —
The 1871 Wisconsin legislature authorized the City of Milwaukee to finance and build a public water system. By 1873 the Board of Water Commissioners had constructed the old North Point Pumping Station below the bluff with intake from Lake Michigan, . . . — — Map (db m34765) HM
338 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Historic Water Tower — 155 — Saint John's Infirmary — Wisconsin’s First Public Hospital – 1848 —
Founded May 15, 1848, with the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul providing direction and nursing, St. John’s Infirmary offered Wisconsin’s first public hospital care under the supervision of the patient’s physician. (Prior institutions . . . — — Map (db m37314) HM
339 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Historic Water Tower — 186 — Saint Mary's School of Nursing — formerly Saint Mary's Training School for Nurses — 1894-1969 —
Formal nurses training in the United States began in Boston in 1872. In 1888, the Women's Club of Wisconsin organized the Wisconsin Training School for Nurses patterned after the Bellevue School of Nursing in New York. In 1894, the Daughters of . . . — — Map (db m96213) HM
340 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, King Park — 643 — 15th Street Freedom House —
In the spring of 1967, the NAACP Youth Council rented a property at 1316 N. 15th Street as a second Freedom House. During the initial planning of the demonstrations that became the 200 consecutive nights of open housing marches in 1967–68, the 15th . . . — — Map (db m310563) HM
341 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Lincoln Village — 625 — March to Kosciuszko Park —
On August 28, 1967, protesters led by the NAACP Youth Council and Commandos crossed the 16th Street Viaduct toward Kosciuszko Park in one of the earliest demonstrations of the 200 consecutive days of Milwaukee’s fair housing marches. As they . . . — — Map (db m275555) HM
342 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Maple Tree — 549 — Birthplace of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod —
On Christmas Day 1847, a group of German-speaking settlers, mostly from Pennsylvania, met and founded the German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Church of Granville Township. By June 1849, these settlers had built and dedicated a log church on a . . . — — Map (db m68205) HM
343 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Merrill Park — 354 — Merrill Park —
In 1879, Sherburn S. Merrill, the General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, purchased almost half a square mile in the Menomonee Valley to construct a massive railroad shop complex. By the early 1880s, the railroad company . . . — — Map (db m34802) HM
344 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Midtown — 641 — Attorney Lloyd A. Barbee (1925–2002) —
Born on August 17, 1925, Lloyd A. Barbee was a civil rights activist, attorney, and state legislator. After moving to Milwaukee in 1962, Barbee led efforts to desegregate public schools. In 1965, using the Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. Board of . . . — — Map (db m314585) HM
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345 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Midtown — 639 — Lynden Hill: A Site of African American Resilience —
Lynden Hill was once the site of Wisconsin’s first state-licensed, non-profit, general hospital owned and operated by African Americans. Founded by two French Canadian nuns in 1908, Misericordia Hospital began as a charity hospital for single . . . — — Map (db m303022) HM
346 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Miller Valley — 36 — Watertown Plank Road —
Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extended 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown. The $110,000 road of . . . — — Map (db m31123) HM
347 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Mitchell Park — 620 — 16th Street Viaduct —
In the summer of 1967, the NAACP Youth Council planned a march to protest discriminatory housing policies in the city. On August 28th, 250 members gathered to march across the 16th Street Viaduct from the predominantly Black north side to the . . . — — Map (db m263910) HM
348 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Northpoint — 288 — Civil War Camp — Reported missing
Near here a Civil War training camp was built in August 1861. Named Camp Holton, Camp Sigel and finally Camp Reno, its boundaries were Prospect and Bartlett Avenues and Lafayette and Royall Places. Six Wisconsin infantry regiments, almost 7,000 men, . . . — — Map (db m37272) HM
349 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Northpoint — 535 — North Point Light Station —
The North Point Light Station has a long history of guiding mariners to Milwaukee. Its location was chosen to mark the north point of Milwaukee Bay. Erected in 1887 and first lit in 1888, the 39-foot octagonal cast-iron tower replaced an 1855 . . . — — Map (db m48408) HM
350 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Northpoint — 214 — North Point Lighthouse — Reported permanently removed
Milwaukee’s first lighthouse was erected in 1837 on a 56 foot bluff at the east end of Wisconsin Ave. It was replaced in 1855 by a 28 foot tower 100 feet east of the present location. Erosion forced the rebuilding in the 1870’s and relocation . . . — — Map (db m34766) HM
351 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Triangle North — 642 — Police Confrontation with Marchers —
On the evening of October 9, 1967, the intersection of 20th Street and North Avenue became crowded with clusters of Open Housing marchers, blocking traffic. Even though the marchers had a parade permit, police declared the march an unlawful . . . — — Map (db m310566) HM
352 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Veterans Affairs — 182 — Erastus B. Wolcott, M.D — (1804 – 1880) —
Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott was an originator of the idea for a national soldier’s home in Milwaukee. A spirited leader in medicine, business and government, he was state surgeon-general during the Civil War and an ardent advocate for what is now the . . . — — Map (db m77415) HM
353 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Veterans Affairs — 287 — National Soldiers Home —
The Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home Association was formed in 1864 by a coalition of women’s charitable organizations led by Lydia Hewitt, Hannah Vedder, and Mrs. E. L. Buttrick of Milwaukee. The Association raised funds to endow a hospital where sick and . . . — — Map (db m95766) HM
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354 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Walker's Point — 476 — The Cream City — Reported missing
Milwaukee is known as “The Cream City” not because of dairies or breweries, but because of its historic pale yellow brick buildings constructed throughout the 19th century. These buildings are a distinctive “cream” color because they are made from . . . — — Map (db m32741) HM
355 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 646 — Alonzo Robinson, Jr. (1923–2000) —
Alonzo Robinson, Jr. was the first Black architect licensed to practice in Wisconsin. Robinson grew up in Delaware. After graduating from Howard University in Washington, D.C., he was hired by the City of Milwaukee in 1954. He also established his . . . — — Map (db m314589) HM
356 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 265 — Carl Frederick Zeidler — January 4, 1908 – November 7, 1942 —
Milwaukee born and educated, lawyer Carl F. Zeidler became Milwaukee’s 33rd mayor in April, 1940, when he defeated Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist mayor since 1916. In April, 1942, Zeidler left office to enter service as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant (j.g.). On . . . — — Map (db m37268) HM
357 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 293 — First African-American Church Built in Wisconsin —
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American church built in Wisconsin, once stood on this site. The property was purchased in 1869, the year the congregation was organized. Construction on the St. Mark A.M.E. church . . . — — Map (db m35201) HM
358 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 43 — Invention of the Typewriter —
At 318 State Street, approximately 300 feet northeast of here, C. Latham Sholes perfected the first practical typewriter in September, 1869. Here he worked during the summer with Carlos Glidden, Samuel W. Soule, & Matthias Schwalbach in the machine . . . — — Map (db m31124) HM
359 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 333 — Kilbourntown —
In this vicinity, Kilbourntown, one of three original Milwaukee settlements, was founded by surveyor and land speculator Byron Kilbourn in 1835. Kilbourntown’s first residents were entrepreneurs from the East. In 1839, a small group of German . . . — — Map (db m37262) HM
360 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 254 — MacArthur Square —
MacArthur Square was designated on September 17, 1945 to honor General of the Army Douglas MacArthur for his leadership of Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II. MacArthur, his father General Arthur MacArthur, and his grandfather Judge . . . — — Map (db m259410) HM
361 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 234 — Milwaukee Interurban Terminal — 1905 - 1951 —
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company opened its terminal here in 1905. The first car entered this building January 1, 1905. The first floor was the terminal area, with two waiting rooms and thirteen car tracks; it was then the . . . — — Map (db m80529) HM
362 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 615 — The Black Nite Uprising — Reported damaged
Eight years before New York's Stonewall Riots, the Black Nite Uprising united a community, awakened local activism, and scored an early victory for the emerging LGBTQ rights movement in the United States. On August 5th, 1961, four servicemen . . . — — Map (db m254389) HM
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363 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Westown — 553 — Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home — 1864-1867 —
In April 1864, women of the former West Side Soldiers’ Aid Society opened a temporary Civil War Soldiers’ Home at this location. By May 1867, the home’s Lady Managers had welcomed 21,550 Union soldiers, given medical care to over 1,000, and provided . . . — — Map (db m77417) HM
364 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Shorewood — 446 — Lueddemann’s-On-The-River —
This park played a key role in Shorewood’s development. In 1872, Frederick A. Lueddemann opened Lueddemann’s-On-The-River on this site in the Town of Milwaukee. Otto Zwietusch bought the resort in 1876 and renamed it Mineral Springs Park. . . . — — Map (db m30250) HM
365 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Shorewood — 366 — Shorewood Armory —
The Shorewood Armory, once located near Capitol Drive and Oakland Avenue, was home to the cavalry unit of the Wisconsin National Guard from 1910 to 1930. Originally called the Light Horse Squadron, the cavalry drilled their horses on the thirty-acre . . . — — Map (db m167061) HM
366 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Shorewood — 367 — Shorewood High School —
A forerunner in secondary school design, Shorewood High School is modeled on a university campus plan. Constructed between 1924 and 1938 by Milwaukee architects Herbst and Kuenzli, the school includes separate buildings for administration, physical . . . — — Map (db m30248) HM
367 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Shorewood — 368 — Shorewood Village Hall —
Shorewood Village Hall was built in 1908 as a four-room school to serve Shorewood, then called East Milwaukee. In 1915 this building became the seat of village government. The building was extensively remodeled in 1937 with Works Progress . . . — — Map (db m30249) HM
368 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, South Milwaukee — 467 — Lawson Airplane Company — Reported missing
From 1919 to 1922, this property housed the Lawson Airplane Company, founded by pioneer aviator Alfred W. Lawson. The company produced the first two commercial passenger airplanes in the U.S. Lawson dubbed these “airliners.” Many features standard . . . — — Map (db m210455) HM
369 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, St. Francis — 587 — Lake Protestant Cemetery —
Lake Protestant Cemetery was founded as a farm cemetery in the 1840s on Jared Thompson’s land and was incorporated in 1855. This three-quarter acre cemetery is divided into forty-two lots. The earliest burial dates to 1846, and the most recent . . . — — Map (db m155525) HM
370 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, St. Francis — 576 — Lakeside Power Plant —
In 1920, the Lakeside Power Plant opened here, becoming the world’s largest plant to exclusively burn pulverized coal. The lighted smokestacks were visible to ship captains and airplane pilots for miles off shore until 1987 when the plant was razed. — — Map (db m185575) HM
371 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Wauwatosa — 168 — Milwaukee County's First Airport —
One of the earliest publicly–owned airports in the United State was established here on July 3, 1919, by the Milwaukee County Park Commission. The nation’s first commercial air transport, the Lawson Airliner, took off from this field on August . . . — — Map (db m236877) HM
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372 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Wauwatosa — 499 — Revolutionary War Veteran —
Patriot James Morgan was born April 5, 1748, in Frederick County, Virginia. At the age of 30, Morgan enlisted in the Revolution for a three-month tour in Colonel John Evan’s Virginia Regiment. He served with General McIntosh’s campaign in the Ohio . . . — — Map (db m31763) HM
373 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, West Allis — 318 — Camp Harvey —
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in April of 1898, President William McKinley called on the states to gather their military forces. State officials ordered the Wisconsin National Guard to report for duty at Camp Harvey, named for . . . — — Map (db m36393) HM
374 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, West Allis — 41 — Meadowmere —
This tract of land was once a part of the estate on which General William (Billy) Mitchell (1879-1936) lived as a boy. His fearless and inquisitive personality as a youth carried over into his military career when he spoke out against overwhelming . . . — — Map (db m31135) HM
375 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, West Allis — 600 — Tee Sisikeja (Bad Waters Village) —
Ho-Chunk histories indicate that this area has long been an important gathering place known as Tee Sisikeja (Bad Waters Village). Here, ancestors of the Ho-Chunk constructed burial sites for loved ones in the form of mounds, a practice that dates . . . — — Map (db m208429) HM
376 ► Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, West Allis — 319 — Wisconsin State Fair Park —
In 1892, this site became the permanent home of the Wisconsin State Fair after its purchase a year earlier by the State Agricultural Society. Until then, the Fair had moved annually since the first one in Janesville in 1851. Over the years, . . . — — Map (db m8311) HM
377 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Camp Douglas, Mill Bluff State Park — 124 — Mesas and Buttes —
This is Mill Bluff, one of many isolated and rocky castle-like hills which rise abruptly from the surrounding plain. This formation is properly called a mesa (Spanish for "table") if large and butte if small. Mesas and buttes in this driftless . . . — — Map (db m31736) HM
378 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Kendall — 253 — Elroy–Sparta State Trail —
This 32 mile state trail was formerly the mainline of the Chicago and North Western Railway. The conversion from “rail to trail” represented a new concept in recreational development. Utilizing the abandoned railbed, it was the first trail of its . . . — — Map (db m18710) HM
379 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Leon — 520 — Donald "Deke" Slayton —
Astronaut Deke Slayton was born in Sparta on March 1, 1924. His parents, Victoria and Charles Slayton, lived on a farm in the town of Leon. As a young boy, he attended Leon School in this building, which now serves as the Leon Community Center. . . . — — Map (db m43574) HM
380 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Rockland — 272 — The Driftless Area —
Several times during the ice ages, glaciers flowed out of Canada, sometimes reaching as far south as the Ohio and Missouri rivers. During recent glaciations, southwestern Wisconsin was untouched, because the glaciers were diverted to the east or . . . — — Map (db m174938) HM
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381 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Sparta — 198 — Coulee Country —
From the hills all around, rugged valleys collect for rivers that feed the mighty Mississippi. The early French called such a valley a coulee. These many valleys, large and small, still are known as coulees, a regional name for a regional . . . — — Map (db m8921) HM
382 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Sparta — 488 — Masonic Lodge —
The Masons constructed this building in 1923, as Sparta's first building devoted entirely to a social organization. The architecture is characterized by an eclectic mix of Classical Revival and Prairie School influences. Noted regional architect and . . . — — Map (db m9037) HM
383 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Sparta — 489 — Monroe County Courthouse —
Monroe County was created in 1854, and Sparta became the county seat. The present building is the third Monroe County courthouse and replaced an 1863 courthouse. It was constructed in 1895 at a cost in excess of $50,000. Chicago architect Mifflin . . . — — Map (db m8960) HM
384 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Sparta — 490 — Sparta Free Library —
Prior to the construction of this building in 1902, the Sparta Free Library had several homes in the community. Schick and Roth, a LaCrosse architectural firm, designed the library building. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie provided construction . . . — — Map (db m9054) HM
385 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Sparta — 487 — U.S. Post Office —
Prior to the construction of this building in 1915, Sparta's post office was housed in a variety of buildings such as the nearby Masonic Temple. Although the initial federal appropriation for the post office was secured by Congressman John Esch . . . — — Map (db m9003) HM
386 ► Wisconsin, Monroe County, Tomah — 88 — Tomah —
When this site was selected for a settlement in 1855, one of its founders read in an old history of the state that the Menominee Chief Tomah had at one time gathered his tribe in this vicinity for a conference. He suggested the name "Tomah" for . . . — — Map (db m3960) HM
387 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Lakewood — 179 — Holt & Balcom Logging Camp No. 1 —
Generally called "Depot Camp," it is the oldest standing lumber camp in Wisconsin. It remains where originally built in 1880, in what was one of the greatest white pine regions of the middle west. Expert woodsmen built the camp as is evidenced by . . . — — Map (db m36898) HM
388 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 568 — Couillardville Occupations —
The Couillardville area covers approximately one and one half miles along the Lower Oconto River Valley. The area is filled with archeological sites extending from Paleo-Indian through the Historic Indian occupations. South of this site on the north . . . — — Map (db m139711) HM
389 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 579 — Farnsworth Public Library —
This library, by architect Henry Foeller, was completed in 1903. Oconto lumberman George Farnsworth gifted $15,000 for the building and gave the dedicatory address. The library is a beautiful example of the Neoclassical Revival style and is a vital . . . — — Map (db m139713) HM
390 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 25 — First Church of Christ, Scientist — Oconto, Wisconsin —
This church was organized June 10, 1886. The first service was held here October 31 of the same year. Seven years earlier Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, . . . — — Map (db m13164) HM
391 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 78 — Mission of St. Francois Xavier —
On December 2, 1669, the Eve of St. Francis, Father Claude Allouez arrived at Oconto, then a village of about 600 Indians. Here Allouez founded the Mission of St. Francois Xavier, the first mission in north eastern Wisconsin. Six French fur traders . . . — — Map (db m13440) HM
392 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 53 — Old Copper Culture Cemetery —
At this site approximately 4,500 years ago, Wisconsin Indians gathered to bury their dead. Because of their use of copper tools, weapons and ornaments, this group became known as the Old Copper people. They fashioned spearpoints, knives and . . . — — Map (db m58143) HM
393 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 538 — Stanley Toy Company —
This building is all that remains of the once-larger Stanley Toy Company building. Established by Chester Schwedler in 1946, the Stanley Toy Company made cast-metal horse-drawn carriages and bunny toy carts. On December 29, 1949, fire destroyed the . . . — — Map (db m58140) HM
394 ► Wisconsin, Oconto County, Oconto — 610 — The Beyer Home —
Cyrus and Kitty Hart constructed this home in 1868 as an Italianate style residence. It was one of the first brick houses in the county. George and Fannie Beyer purchased the house in 1878 and in the 1890s remodeled it to its current Queen Anne . . . — — Map (db m249313) HM
395 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Pelican Lake — 536 — Mecikalski Stovewood Building —
The Mecikalski Stovewood General Store is named for John Mecikalski, who emigrated from Prussia with his parents in the 1870s. John married and purchased land in Oneida County. Together, four Mecikalski brothers supplied valuable services during the . . . — — Map (db m68704) HM
396 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Rhinelander — 167 — First Rural Zoning Ordinance —
The Oneida County Zoning Ordinance, adopted May 16, 1933, was the first comprehensive rural zoning ordinance in the United States. In the early 1930's, most northern Wisconsin counties were in financial difficulties. The Oneida County Board of . . . — — Map (db m33651) HM
397 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Rhinelander — 191 — The Hodag —
This mythical creature is the official symbol of Rhinelander. It was created in 1896 by "Gene" Shepard, Rhinelander pioneer timber cruiser and famous prankster. Shepard claimed to have discovered the animal in the woods near Rice Creek. He . . . — — Map (db m255515) HM
398 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Three Lakes — 117 — Nicolet National Forest —
You are in the original Oneida Purchase Unit that marked the beginning of Nicolet National Forest. The first tract of land, acquired from the Thunder Lake Lumber Company in 1928, contained 12,940 acres. Today there are 640,000 acres rich in scenic, . . . — — Map (db m36011) HM
399 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Woodruff — 563 — Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb — 7-26-1886 - 5-30-1956 —
On this site, Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, a well-respected and loved physician, provided medical care from her office and treatment room during the 1940s and 1950s. One of only two doctors for the vast northern Wisconsin area, she treated local . . . — — Map (db m185568) HM
400 ► Wisconsin, Oneida County, Woodruff — 595 — World’s Largest Penny —
The World’s Largest Penny was dedicated on May 29, 1954 as a tribute to the staff and students of Arbor Vitae-Woodruff School. This monument reflects Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb‘s dream for a local hospital, as well as the community spirit of Woodruff . . . — — Map (db m177737) HM

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