On U.S. 14, 0.1 miles east of Dover Lane, on the left when traveling east.
Beginning in 1844, nearly 700 settlers were brought into this area by the British Temperance & Emigration Society, organized the previous year in Liverpool, England. By 1850 Dover boasted a hotel, post office, cooper, blacksmith, shoemaker, wagon . . . — — Map (db m6780) HM
Near Mounds Road/ Park Entrance Road, 1.5 miles north of County Road Id (County Route Id).
In the late hours of November 25, 1944, a C-47 Army cargo plane en route from Chicago to Minneapolis crashed into Blue Mound 400-500 feet north of this monument. The plane had encountered a winter storm, and burdened by built up ice, was attempting . . . — — Map (db m73004) HM WM
On East Fountain Street east of South Union Street, on the right when traveling east.
Dodge Mining Camp Cabin has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m228301) HM
On County Road Y, 0.1 miles east of Governor Dodge Road, on the right when traveling east.
Arriving in Dodgeville in 1827, Henry Dodge, later renowned as a Black Hawk War military leader, territorial governor and state senator, began his Wisconsin career as a miner. In circa 1830, Dodge established living quarters and a large two-furnace . . . — — Map (db m32450) HM
On Iowa Street (State Highway 23) at Chapel Street, on the right when traveling south on Iowa Street.
This is the oldest courthouse in Wisconsin. Construction started June 11, 1859. It was dedicated in 1861, enlarged in 1894 and again in 1927. In 1937 the Doric columns, pediment and cupola were restored exactly as the 1859 original. In 1969 the . . . — — Map (db m71717) HM
On County Highway Y at Canyon Park Road, on the right when traveling west on County Highway Y.
You are traveling the route of the Old Military Road, built in 1835-36, to connect Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien and Fort Howard at Green Bay, via Fort Winnebago at "The Portage" between the Fox-Wisconsin rivers. The section from Prairie du . . . — — Map (db m36908) HM
On Iowa Street (State Highway 23) at Chapel Street, on the right when traveling south on Iowa Street.
In memory of all the
Iowa County Veterans
who served this great nation
in time of peace and war
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M.I.A. - P.O.W.
[Dedicated] July 1989 — — Map (db m90150) HM
On State Highway 23 at Irving Lane, on the left when traveling south on State Highway 23.
Fort Defiance was one of the last garrisoned stockade forts constructed in territorial Wisconsin. Located in the booming lead mining region, an area of early settlement, the fort was built by local settlers in 1832 when developing tensions over . . . — — Map (db m32043) HM
On Ridge Street (State Highway 39) at Madison Street, on the left when traveling south on Ridge Street.
In the 1820s, after hearing reports of abundant lead in the area, prospective miners with "lead fever" began pouring into southwestern Wisconsin. Finding ore just beneath the surface, miners set up "diggings" and soon established Mineral Point. It . . . — — Map (db m35335) HM
In 1887, Professor Laurence F. Graber was born on a nearby Mineral Point farm about three miles southwest of this location. In 1910, he began his career as an agronomy instructor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and was given the . . . — — Map (db m71721) HM
On Shake Rag Street east of Wisconsin Highway 23, on the right when traveling east.
In the 1830’s, tin miners from Cornwall, England started coming to S. W. Wisconsin to work the newly discovered lead ore deposits. In certain localities they built their stone cottages similar to the ones of their homeland.
Shake Rag, the . . . — — Map (db m2968) HM
On Commerce Street at Fountain Street, on the left when traveling north on Commerce Street.
In June, 1832, an alarm spread throughout the mining region that Black Hawk and his band were on the march north from Illinois. Hastily built stockades were erected throughout the lead region. Fort Jackson was built on this site using vertically . . . — — Map (db m32065) HM
On High Street at South Vine Street, on the right when traveling west on High Street.
On July 4, 1836, here in Mineral Point, Col. Henry Dodge took the oath of office to become the first Governor of the newly-created Territory of Wisconsin. This Territory, previously attached to Michigan, embraced the vast and important area of what . . . — — Map (db m35336) HM
On U.S. 14, 0.2 miles east of Helena Road, on the right when traveling east.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Wisconsin-born, world-renowned architect, lived and worked in Wyoming Valley, 6 miles southwest of here, at Taliesin, his home and school for apprentices. In the practice of "organic" or natural architecture, he sought to blend . . . — — Map (db m19276) HM
Near County Highway C east of State Highway 23, on the right when traveling east.
In this vicinity, during the Black Hawk War of 1832, General Henry Atkinson and approximately 1,000 soldiers crossed the Wisconsin River in pursuit of Sac Indian leader Black Hawk and his followers. On July 26th, at the old abandoned Village of . . . — — Map (db m19150) HM
Near County Highway C, 2 miles west of U.S. 14, on the right when traveling west.
Twenty years before Wisconsin became a state, the discovery of vast lead deposits brought a population boom to this area.
Green Bay merchant Daniel Whitney organized the Wisconsin Shot Company to build a shot tower on this site. T.B. Shaunce . . . — — Map (db m35334) HM
Near County Highway C, 2 miles west of U.S. 14, on the right when traveling west.
A thriving and important town of the lead-mining days, here on July 28, 1832 troops crossed the Wisconsin River in pursuit of Indians under Black Hawk
Among officers of the Army here present these later became distinguished
Gen. Henry . . . — — Map (db m35333) HM
Near County Road C, 0.3 miles west of State Highway 23.
Taliesin, as part of the 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, has been inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Inscription confirms that this property deserves protection for the benefit of all humanity because of its outstanding . . . — — Map (db m200495) 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 County Road T, 0.2 miles east of State Highway 23, on the right when traveling east.
Unity Chapel
Dedicated 1886
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
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In 1844, Richard and Mallie . . . — — Map (db m90106) HM