Vast forests of virgin white pine were the treasure which brought the first wave of white settlers to Northern Wisconsin. The farms came later, but for half a century the forests were local history.
In 1847, the Knapp, Stout & Co. purchased . . . — — Map (db m45069) HM
Indian burial mounds such as this one were once common in the Chetek area. The mounds were built hundreds of years ago before the arrival of Columbus in 1492 by bands of the Ojibwa and Sioux people. This mound may be the last one located in the . . . — — Map (db m263688) HM
The congregation for this church traces its roots back to 1870 when people first held services in their homes in what was originally called Stanfold. This community later became Dobie. Their first Catholic church was built in 1876 but was destroyed . . . — — Map (db m45151) HM
The steam engine was a unique part of the industrial history of Americas heartland. Engines, such as this one, provided the power to generate electricity and run machines in hundreds of factories and municipalities throughout the world.
This . . . — — Map (db m130998) HM
1831 Henry Schoolcraft, Indian agent from Sault St. Marie, MI travels down the Red Cedar River to Rice Lake and held council with the Chippewa Indians at this approximate site. 1847 The Knapp Stout Co. purchased thousands of acres of . . . — — Map (db m161500) HM
1901 The Knapp Stout era was over. The Knapp Stout holdings were sold to the Rice Lake Lumber Company, which later was known as the largest hardwood mill in the country. 1906 The Rice Lake Excelsior Co. arrived on the scene in its present . . . — — Map (db m161666) HM
To quote from the Rice Lake Chronotype, September 30, 1920: Extensive improvements are being made at the yards of the Park Falls Lbr. Co. in this city. Monday Cyrille Mercer and a crew of carpenters began working at erecting a monorail . . . — — Map (db m120496) HM
The Tuscobia State Trail represents the history of the railroad in the development of northern Wisconsin. The route was first conceived as a rail line in 1899, but construction did not end until 1914. The Chicago and North Western Railroad ran on . . . — — Map (db m199897) HM
The Beef Slough was a sluggish branch of the Chippewa River that provided an excellent storage pond for the logs floated downstream by numerous logging companies. Here loggers were employed to arrange the mixed-up logs into orderly rafts to be towed . . . — — Map (db m10103) HM
Designed by and constructed under the direction of
The Corps of Engineers, United States Army
1932 – 1935
Contractor for lock – Ouilmette Construction & Engineering Co.
Contractor for dam – United Construction Co. . . . — — Map (db m17300) HM
This site and memorial is forever dedicated to the memories, valor, courage and ideals of those Buffalo County residents that have given their all and rest in burial sites at home, abroad and at sea. It is also dedicated to those that have endured . . . — — Map (db m73314) WM
Thomas A. Holmes (1804-1888) established the first permanent settlement in Buffalo County in 1839 at the present site of Fountain City. In the fall of that year Holmes and a party of twelve including his wife came up the Mississippi River to barter . . . — — Map (db m43205) HM
Before the white man came to this area Indians of the Chippewa, Winnebago and other tribes roamed freely along the Mississippi River. Recorded history tells of an Indian tribal battle that took place on these river banks which was witnessed by some . . . — — Map (db m43206) HM
Freedom Is Not Free
Military Service Emblems
Army Navy Air Force
Marine Corps Coast Guard Merchant Marine
Galen C. Aase
Loren R. Aase
William J. Aase
Wayne M. Adams
James R. Alf
Mitchell Allen . . . — — Map (db m78828) WM
The weather on April 21, 1980 was unseasonably hot and dry. On that day a temperature of 91 degrees combined with a humidity of 18 percent to set the stage for a catastrophic fire. At approximately 12:20 pm. that sweltering afternoon, the historic . . . — — Map (db m68642) HM
Canute Anderson was born Canute Ingverson Eggum in Laerdal, Norway. He arrived in the Grantsburg area in 1854, establishing a stopping place and trading post where the buildings southeast of this marker stand. Opening the first post office in his . . . — — Map (db m68715) HM
During the last Wisconsin glaciation the advance of the Grantsburg sublobe blocked drainage, resulting in the formation of Glacial Lake Grantsburg. Natural succession eventually formed the extensive peat marshes known today as Crex Meadows.
Prior . . . — — Map (db m68641) HM
The St. Croix River winds its way through wild and scenic countryside from its origin in a Spruce-Tamarack swamp near Upper St. Croix Lake. The waters of the Namekagon join the St. Croix 45 miles upstream from this sign. The river system varies from . . . — — Map (db m44547) HM
On Monday, June 18, 2001, at 8:20 p.m. an F3 tornado with gale-force winds of over 200 miles per hour blew through southern Burnett County and eastern Washburn County leaving in its wake a path of destruction through the townships of Bashaw, . . . — — Map (db m43504) HM
Feel my bark and you will understand why I am called paper birch.
I am also called white birch because of my color, and canoe birch because Native Americans used my bark to make canoes.
Native Americans also used birch bark to cover . . . — — Map (db m305307) HM
white oak leaf and acorn
Acorn bread....probably not what you had for supper last night, but years ago it was a common food for many Plains Indians. They made it by boiling, roasting, and grinding the oak tree's acorns . . . — — Map (db m301105) HM
cone 4-6 inches long
white pine
needles grow in clusters of five
There used to be lots of trees like me in Wisconsin years ago. Some were over 200 feet tall. Many white pine trees were cut down in the 1800s . . . — — Map (db m303534) HM
On this site during the Civil War Caroline Augusta Woodhouse, known throughout the world as "Caddie Woodlawn," experienced the excitement of growing up in pioneer Wisconsin. Her tomboy adventures with her two red-headed brothers, and her fearless . . . — — Map (db m31194) HM
This stone, named Dunnville Sandstone, was quarried in a location first discovered in 1882 by surveyors for the railroad. Stone such as this was used for constructing our shelter house, the Mabel Tainter Memorial building in Menomonie, the St. . . . — — Map (db m46113) HM
The Chippewa and Sioux Indians roamed this area before the French fur traders came trapping fur bearing animals which were plentiful along the Eau Galle River.
The real history of the village of Eau Galle began in 1838-39 when a sawmill was . . . — — Map (db m32868) HM
Where were these "Buffaloes and Elks?" Wyoming? Montana? No, they were feeding in the prairies along the banks of the Chippewa River, roaming as far north as Chippewa Falls.
The dry conditions of prairies allowed only certain grasses, . . . — — Map (db m302246) HM
When a new building for The Stout Manual Training School was built in 1897, this bell was installed in the clock tower to sound the hours of the day. Large and expensive, this bell was truly an investment in, and a symbol of, the promising future of . . . — — Map (db m88418) HM
Here and northeast of here lies the vast Chippewa Valley. At the start of lumbering in Wisconsin it held one-sixth of the nations white pine. Surveyors estimated the total pine stand in the state at 136 billion board feet of prime lumber. . . . — — Map (db m2059) HM
Up the hill on the left lies patriot Dr. Stephen Tainter, born October 13, 1760, in Westborough, Massachusetts. He first enlisted in December 1776, at the age of sixteen, as a drummer with Captain Kimball's company in Colonel Sparhawk's . . . — — Map (db m21255) HM
Evergreen Cemetery
In 1873, local lumber company Knapp, Stout & Company, Co. provided fifty-two acres to establish a proper burial site. They hired landscape architects, William Merchant Richardson French and Horace Shaler Cleveland, to . . . — — Map (db m88546) HM
Where were these "Buffaloes and Elks?" Wyoming? Montana? No, they were feeding in the prairies along the banks of the Chippewa River, roaming as far north as Chippewa Falls.
The dry conditions of prairies allowed only certain grasses, . . . — — Map (db m43096) HM
Many sites along this historic corridor testify to the longstanding cooperation between Menomonie and the educational institution founded by James Huff Stout in 1891. The university and city continue to foster the vision of learning and opportunity. — — Map (db m88416) HM
The bank was incorporated in this building July 3, 1879. It has served the financial needs of the community since that date.
Senator James H. Stout, for whom the University is named, was President from 1906-1910. — — Map (db m88413) HM
In Honor of Company H
To those who offered their
lives in defense of their ideals
and in memory of those who
*gave the last full measure of devotion*
Albert Nathness · Harry C. Nelson · Emmett C. Hill · *William H. Buckland · . . . — — Map (db m40655) HM
Erected to the memory of Mabel Tainter, daughter of lumberman Andrew L. Tainter and his wife Bertha, and given to area citizens on July 3, 1890, the Memorial reflects advanced American architectural, social, educational and religious thought of . . . — — Map (db m9854) HM
Built in 1850, the Stori House Hotel occupied this site. It was a stage coach stop and the "coffee house" of Menomonie.
A circuit court and many social events where held here.
It was demolished in 1964. At that time, it was the oldest . . . — — Map (db m46700) HM
The savanna was among the numerous types of plant communities found in pre-settlement Wisconsin. The environment of the savanna falls between that of forest and prairie. It can be described as having between one and twenty trees per acre. There . . . — — Map (db m302245) HM
The outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 did not involve the United States directly. Americans expected to remain neutral in the struggle between Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy against Germany and its allies. The desire for neutrality . . . — — Map (db m2167) HM
A living memorial to and in honor of all Wisconsin veterans,
living and dead, of all wars in which the United States of America has engaged.
Color guard of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment with Old Abe at Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863 . . . — — Map (db m162295) HM WM
Here
Luther College Decorah
Iowa was conducted during
its first year 1861 1862
in the Half Way Creek
Parsonage which was
later destroyed by fire — — Map (db m183053) HM
The first college founded by Norwegian Lutheran pioneer immigrants in the United States opened in the parsonage of Halfway Creek Lutheran congregation, Sept. 1, 1861. Teachers were Laur. Larsen and F.A. Schmidt, who also served as pastors for area . . . — — Map (db m178493) HM
For Coach Walter, "Babe," Weigent this common refrain was not just about football, but about the game of life. A towering figure in La Crosse athletics, Babe encouraged his players to make the most of every opportunity that came their way: work . . . — — Map (db m185900) HM
Dr. D. Franklin "Doc" Powell was indisputably one of La Crosse's most flamboyant residents of the late 19th century. He was a tall, handsome man with an imposing bearing, said to be both gentleman and scoundrel, a "man for the people" and an . . . — — Map (db m185919) HM
Confluence was envisioned by internationally renowned trompe l'oeil artist John Pugh and created by him with assistance from his staff, local artists, and apprentices. Confluence celebrates the role of La Crosse as a sacred place. This sacred . . . — — Map (db m264349) HM
The drinking establishment on this corner was built by Jacob Ahrens in 1889 and sold to the Bartl Brew House in 1890. Henry Appel sold the grocery and saloon he built in 1885 on the opposite corner at 1002 Jackson Street to the Heileman Brewing Co. . . . — — Map (db m185922) HM
Aquinas High School at 315 South 11th Street was built to replace the two-year Catholic high school begun at Holy Trinity in 1916. Aquinas was designed by local architects Parkinson and Dockendorff in an English Gothic style. It was dedicated . . . — — Map (db m185930) HM
Concordia Hall, built in 1891 by the Concordia Singing Society, and the Eagle Brewery, built in 1885 on the northeast corner of 12th and La Crosse Streets, served as the gathering place for the German Americans of the Goosetown neighborhood. The . . . — — Map (db m185914) HM
The construction of Central High School on this site began in 1905 following spirited protests from various community groups. This Classical Revival style school was closed in 1967 when the new high school was completed. Weigent Park was created . . . — — Map (db m185905) HM
The Colton Mission Chapel at 1502 Winnebago Street, built by the First Baptist Church in 1893, was used by the Norwegian Evangelical Free Church from 1918 until the 1940's. The Norwegian Methodist Evangelical Church, built at 1503 Winnebago Street . . . — — Map (db m185929) HM
Morris Hall was built as a campus school for training teachers in 1939. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. La Crosse Senator Thomas Morris pushed legislation through the State Legislature in 1905 to authorize a Normal . . . — — Map (db m185912) HM
The Grandview Building on the west end of this block was a private hospital founded by Dr. W. A. Henke in 1914. Grandview Hospital closed in 1969. The Grandview Nurses' Home was built in 1921 on what is now the parking lot east of the Grandview . . . — — Map (db m264315) HM
The Cass and King Streets Residential Historic District, extending west to West Avenue, developed as the city's most fashionable neighborhood between the 1880,s and 1940. This district, featuring many of the city's best Queen Anne and Prairie School . . . — — Map (db m264314) HM
The United States Naval Reserve was organized in La Crosse in 1946. This Navy training center was commissioned by Rear Admiral J. Cary Jones on December 14, 1949. Reservists from southwestern Wisconsin, northern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota meet . . . — — Map (db m237383) HM
La Crosse was established as a commercial center when Nathan Myrick set up his fur trading post on Barron's Island in 1841. The La Crosse Commercial Historic District represents the city's architectural development from the 1860's to 1940. It was . . . — — Map (db m212332) HM
The Centennial Summer Beer Garden, Saloon, Bowling Alley and Dance Hall, established here by German immigrant Peter Lehnen, served the surrounding German and Bohemian neighborhood from 1876 until the Prohibition era. The Centennial Garden site now . . . — — Map (db m213075) HM
Methodist missionary and circuit-riding preachers served the community until the First Methodist Church was organized in 1852. The Methodist congregation moved from South 4th Street to this Romanesque Revival style church in 1886. They merged with . . . — — Map (db m185931) HM
Lincoln School was built at 8th and Ferry Streets in 1924 on the site where the city's first public school, the Third Ward School, was erected in 1855. Lincoln's innovative design grouped first floor kindergarten and elementary rooms and upper floor . . . — — Map (db m185928) HM
This Mortar
Erected by John Flinn Post No. 77 G.A.R. May 27, 1898. Was at the
Capture of Mobile, New Orleans and
Vicksburg. Weight 980 lbs. — — Map (db m44261) HM
Dancers was created by Donna Gerke-Cuta in 2002 under the mentorship of Elmer Peterson and was the first sculpture by a woman in La Crosse. The metalwork was completed by C & C Machine, Inc. This stainless-steel sculpture was donated by Isola . . . — — Map (db m264346) HM
Dedicated to the memory of veterans of the Civil War 1861-65
Presented by Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
June 14, 1940 — — Map (db m185909) WM
Home and Trading Post
On this site Nathan Myrick
1842
erected the first building in La Crosse
Memorial by La Crosse Chapter
Daughters American Revolution
1916
— — Map (db m241058) HM
This bluff (commonly called "Grandad Bluff") was the site of the first complete service of Christian Divine Worship to be conducted in La Crosse. The Reverend Father James Lloyd Breck and his company of pioneer missionaries, on the morning of June . . . — — Map (db m220320) HM
In Memory of Wisconsin Veterans who were held as prisoners of war, giving their freedom to secure it for others.
Dedicated to Donald P. Weber
Army, Prisoner of War, Patriot, Veteran, Father — — Map (db m212594) WM
The old harbor west of Front Street was filled with sand dredged from the Mississippi in 1911 in preparation for the construction of Riverside Park. The naturalistic design for Riverside, originally known as Levee Park, was created by noted . . . — — Map (db m212971) HM
Gambrinus, whose real name was Jan Primus, was a valiant soldier of the 13th century. This knightly duke was an honorary member of the Brussels Brewers Guild and is generally referred to as the inventor and king of beer. — — Map (db m213044) HM
Commercial development on George Street coincided with the construction of the C.B.&N. railroad yard east of Rublee in 1886. On this block, the Schubert Meat Market was built in 1887 at 1721 George Street and Swenson Hardware Store was erected at . . . — — Map (db m237379) HM
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
City of La Crosse Historic Site Marker:
George Zeisler Building
Plank Road Brewery/Saloon
1886 . . . — — Map (db m264368) HM
In the mid 1800's immigrants from Bohemia and Germany began to settle the Chipmunk Coulee area. Some of the early settlers were the Belling, Bendel, Hiekel, Herold, Kunerth, Lorenz, Meyer, Neumann, Paudler, Preidel, Ringel, Ritschel, Starch, Tietze . . . — — Map (db m9059) HM
Thirty year old Gideon Hixon came to La Crosse and prospered. From the beginning he was a force in the community. Of all the businessmen who made their fortune here, Gideon Hixon left one of the most enduring marks.
Gideon's success led to . . . — — Map (db m212593) HM
The La Crosse Public Library, North Branch, was built in 1941-42 as an English Tudor style bungalow. It was designed by the noted local architect Otto Merman to blend with its residential surroundings. The library was moved to this building from a . . . — — Map (db m264316) HM
"Simple recreation in the open air amid beautiful surroundings contributes to physical and moral health, to a saner and happier life." John Nolen
As the city of La Crosse experienced commercial and residential expansion in the 1870s . . . — — Map (db m229984) HM
This small house serves as a reminder of La Crosse's pioneer days when only a few thousand people, many of them farmers, made up the city's population. Exactly where and when the house was built, and who lived in it, has not been determined due to a . . . — — Map (db m212592) HM
This farmers market is dedicated to Lloyd, Albina, Roland, and June Hanifl, who loved gardens and passed this love to their children and many people in La Crosse.
The Hanifl family name is a well-known one in La Crosse, with at least . . . — — Map (db m178504) HM
1891
Original gauge at the old Swing Span Bridge.
1936
Moved to the foot of Mount Vernon Street at this spot.
1965
Record flood reading 17.9 feet April 24.
1993
Gauge reading moved to below the two bridges. This gauge . . . — — Map (db m264343) HM
In February 1941, during World War II, the Reserve Officers Association organized the population of the La Crosse area to erect a flagpole high atop Grandad Bluff - 600 feet above the city. Children in all public and parochial schools, as well as . . . — — Map (db m220321) WM
The city of La Crosse was named for the American Indian game which the French christened "La Crosse." On this site hard fought matches were played by the Winnebago peoples.
The welded, COR-TEN steel sculpture was designed and fabricated by . . . — — Map (db m213043) HM
This property
La Crosse Plow Company
Built 1914
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m264388) HM
Human settlement is usually driven by the geography and
resources of any particular region. The earliest people to
occupy the La Crosse area were the Paleoindian big-game hunters, some 13,500 to 11,000 years ago. They and their descendants - . . . — — Map (db m220322) HM
The Village of North La Crosse, separated from La Crosse by a marsh, grew up around the sawmills established on the banks of the Black River in the early 1850's. An intense political struggle led to the annexation of the village to the city in 1871. — — Map (db m294197) HM
Norwegians were the second largest ethnic group in the city. They were attracted to North La Crosse by the lumber industry along the Black River. Norwegians formed a community between Sill and Logan Streets where Norwegian Methodist, Norwegian . . . — — Map (db m294196) HM
He found this cemetery neglected and desolate. He transformed it into a place of charm and beauty. He made the wilderness to blossom as the rose.
To commemorate the character and virtues of one who endeared himself to all by an unbroken record . . . — — Map (db m16461) HM
Cadwallader Colden Washburn was born in Maine in 1818. He settled in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1839 and served in Congress before moving to La Crosse.
When the Civil War broke out, Washburn organized the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry . . . — — Map (db m15505) HM
This reproduction of an 1883 map shows the relative location of four mounds at that time. The two mounds that have been destroyed are shown in the outline.
These two mounds a round mound and a mound in the shape (or effigy) of an animal, . . . — — Map (db m141968) HM
Oak Grove Cemetery was founded in 1851 by Deacon S.T. Smith as a simple burial ground, and little attention was paid to landscape design. The site began to take on its present aesthetic under the leadership of Joseph W. Losey and Henry I. Bliss in . . . — — Map (db m299251) HM
In 1858 John Gund and Gottlieb Heileman built their new City Brewery on this site, after moving the brewery from its former location about four blocks northwest of here.
The Brewhouse, to which this plaque is affixed, is part of the original . . . — — Map (db m213074) HM
This is the original Heileman family mansion. It was built on land purchased by Gottlieb Heileman in 1870.
As was the custom of the day, Heileman located the new home as closely as possible to the Brewery which he had founded.
The German . . . — — Map (db m26173) HM
This property
Our Lady of Sorrows
Chapel
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Historic Site
City of La Crosse . . . — — Map (db m37179) HM
In the early 1800s, there were 2.1 million acres of prairie in Wisconsin. Only 2,000 acres of high-quality prairie remain in our state today.
Invasive non-native plants took over
When this land was acquired in 2002 for permanent . . . — — Map (db m294098) HM
This property Pump House of City Waterworks-1880 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior
City of La Crosse Historic Site Marker:
Pump House of City Water Works . . . — — Map (db m264444) HM
Following several devastating downtown fires between 1857 and 1867, the city of La Crosse established local "fire Limits." These required that new buildings be constructed of stone or brick, so quarries began to spring up on the bluffs. The . . . — — Map (db m221889) HM
This park, on the site of a Winnebago village, commemorates an heroic descendant of those people, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. Fighting in Korea in 1950 as a member of the 24th Army Division, Corporal Red Cloud bravely held off an enemy attack . . . — — Map (db m8534) HM
Because of the fertile soil and lush woodlands on the river shores, the Winnebago Indians settled in this area in 1772. Sixty years later they ceded these lands to the U.S. Government. In 1842, Nathan Myrick, the first white settler in La Crosse, . . . — — Map (db m8538) HM
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