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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Portage County, Wisconsin
Adjacent to Portage County, Wisconsin
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On County Highway A north of Maple Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m50518) HM |
| On Mill Street (County Highway B) east of South Main Street (County Highway A), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Original Fire Bell
Established 1902 — — Map (db m8274) HM |
| Near 2nd Street at West Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Can a village live to tell the tale of two railroad lines and a depot?
The railroads originated as a means to transport lumber to mills in the Stevens Point area. As times changed, farm products such as potatoes became the main . . . — — Map (db m26147) HM |
| On County Road T south of Trout Creek Road, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Early Norwegian immigrants settled Central Wisconsin in the mid-1800s and brought with them the traditional church architecture still found in the hills and fjords of their native land. South New Hope Church was chartered in 1888 when synod debates . . . — — Map (db m156507) HM |
| On County Highway E 1.8 miles east of State Highway 34, on the left when traveling east. |
| | In 1834 John Baptiste Du Bay established a trading post on the Wisconsin River one mile east of here for the American Fur Company. His wife was Princess Madeline, daughter of Oshkosh, Chief of the Menominee Indians. According to tradition, Du Bay’s . . . — — Map (db m1770) HM |
| On Wisconsin Avenue at School Drive, on the left when traveling north on Wisconsin Avenue. |
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Wall Of Honor
Proudly We Served
[names]
In Memory of Our War Dead
Dedicated by
American Legion Palash-Platt
Post 543
1951
— — Map (db m41866) HM |
| Near Maple Drive near Village Park Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m29837) WM |
| On Post Road (Business U.S. 51) south of School Drive, on the left when traveling south. |
| | "Greater love hath no man than to
lay down his life for his fellow man"
This is a remnant of an iron girder from the World Trade Center in New York City. It is enshrined here in remembrance of those who gave the complete and final measure . . . — — Map (db m47769) HM |
| On North Main Street south of Forest Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | This site marks the beginning of the village of Rosholt. In 1867, Jens Rasmussen, who came from Lolland, Denmark, purchased land and improved a beaver dam here to furnish power for a grist mill. In 1885 the dam was acquired by John Gilbert Rosholt . . . — — Map (db m33000) HM |
| On North Main Street at Forest Street on North Main Street. |
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Site of last
Rosholt saw mill
Land given to
Rosholt Fair Assn
by
Mr. & Mrs. J. M.
Rustad — — Map (db m33041) HM |
| On East Grand Avenue (State Highway 66) at Depot Street on East Grand Avenue. |
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In Memoriam
World War II
Luther J. Bestul
Leonard L. Dahlen
Onufry Dzwonkoski
Emory J. Nelson
Nick C. Ostrowski
Korea
Joseph S. Berna
David E. Halverson
Ernest M. Kaminski
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men . . . — — Map (db m33083) WM |
| Near Clark Street (State Highway 66) at Water Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Parachutes • Air Assault
Gliders • Glider Pilots
Airborne
Forces
Memorial
To Their Perpetual Honor
Presented By The Citizens Of
Wisconsin
and
The Badger State Chapter
of the
82nd Airborne Division Association . . . — — Map (db m51431) HM |
| On Franklin Street 0.2 miles west of Forest Street when traveling west. |
| | The residents of Stevens Point depended on the Wisconsin River not only to transport logs, but also to provide clam shells for the button industry. The clammers found an abundance of quality shells in the river to support a commercial venture. In . . . — — Map (db m5466) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 66) at Soo Marie Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
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Born in Poland 1747
organizer of
the American cavalry
during the
Revolutionary War.
Erected in commemoration
of the 150th anniversary of his death
1779, at Savannah, GA. — — Map (db m29661) HM |
| On Clark Street (State Highway 66) east of Third Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Here, for 110 years, stood District School No. 2, the oldest public building in Stevens Point. Completed in 1850, its appearance reflecting its New England heritage, it served the pioneer community as school, recreation, and civic center, and . . . — — Map (db m20969) HM |
| Near State Highway 66 at Deer Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | About 1840, near this site, Bloomer & Harper built one of the important early sawmills in northern Wisconsin. It was long known as McGreer's Mill, named for an early owner. By 1890, over 700 million feet of lumber, much of it sawed here, was floated . . . — — Map (db m20745) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 66) at Soo Marie Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
| | When World War I started in 1914, Poland was divided between the empires of Prussia, Austria, and Russia. In 1917, a Polish National Committee organized regiments of Polish-American men to fight under a Polish flag in Europe. Forty-eight . . . — — Map (db m138225) HM |
| On Church Street south of Arlington Place, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 1861–1865
Portage County
to
her heroes who fought
and
her martyrs who fell
that
the Republic might live. — — Map (db m29364) HM |
| Near Main Street at Second Street. |
| | The first land entry affecting Stevens Point after the Indian treaty of 1836 was made by Andrew Mullarkey in 1844. This land was purchased by Mathias Mitchell who in 1847 platted four streets and the Public Square. A Liberty Pole with homemade flag . . . — — Map (db m20928) HM |
| On First Street at Fourth Avenue on First Street. |
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In Loving Memory Of
Those Who Gave Their Lives
World War I
Benjamin J. Brill · Peter P. Kulas · Frank Novak · Frank E. Printz · Walter F. Winecke · Frank M. Zylka
World War II
John Bartkowiak · Felix Blavat · Eugene . . . — — Map (db m41815) HM |
| On Fremont Street at Stanley Street, on the left when traveling north on Fremont Street. |
| |
"These Made The
Supreme Sacrifice"
Bekowski, Andrew
Cisewski, Leonard
Domack, Eugene
Drifka, Raphae
Glodowski, Chester
Koltz, Benedict
Mayek, John
Maziarka, Edward
Peskie, Frank
Shafranski, William
Vaughan, Rolyn . . . — — Map (db m41836) HM |
| Near Crosby Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This plaque commemorates the pioneers who established Stevens Point during the 1840’s, 50’s and 60’s. Community life centered here at the foot of Main Street where supplies were transshipped from wagon to boat for the trip north to lumber camps. . . . — — Map (db m1038) HM |
| On Division Street (Business U.S. 51) south of Franklin Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | One of an estimated twenty-four such statues in the world, this Boy with the Leaking Boot is thought to have been purchased in 1895 as part of an improvement project for Stevens Point's Public Square. The Boy design may have originated in Italy (or . . . — — Map (db m26412) HM |
| On Monroe Street at Wyatt Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Monroe Street. |
| | Once the rail hub of central Wisconsin, Stevens Point’s Historic Southside Railroad Complex still contains buildings, engines and tracks that evoke the time when the railroad was the dominant means of transportation in the country. The first train . . . — — Map (db m1033) HM |
| On Division Street at Monroe Street on Division Street. |
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In memory of those
from this community who
answered their country's call.
Martin Adam · Frank Adams, Jr. · Romulus Berens · Anastazia Blaskoske · Raymond Borgen · Benjamin Brill · Darrell D. Burtis · Reynold Chapman · George H. Chase · Max . . . — — Map (db m36957) HM |
| Near Water Street (County Highway HH) 0.1 miles west of Post Road (Business Highway 51), on the left when traveling west. |
| | A sawmill was built here in 1852 by Luther Hanchett and Amos Courtwright. It was purchased in 1864 by Alexander and Thomas McDill who later added a grist mill. The site was occupied after 1902 by Wisconsin Graphite Company and from 1916 to 1951 by . . . — — Map (db m20924) HM |
| On County Highway W 0.2 miles east of County Highway F, on the right when traveling east. |
| | These open grasslands in the Buena Vista Marsh, Portage County, were one of the last remaining strongholds of the Greater Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin. Once abundant in the state, this impressive bird nearly disappeared when its grassland habitat . . . — — Map (db m1151) HM |
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