26 entries match your criteria.
Historical Markers and War Memorials in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Adjacent to La Crosse County, Wisconsin
▶ Jackson County (25) ▶ Monroe County (19) ▶ Trempealeau County (15) ▶ Vernon County (27) ▶ Houston County, Minnesota (2) ▶ Winona County, Minnesota (16)
Touch name on list to highlight map location.
Touch blue arrow, or on map, to go there.
GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On County Highway D 0.1 miles west of Knudson Road, on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 m23414) HM |
| Near Oak Street south of Palace Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| Near Grandad Bluff Road 0.9 miles west of Bliss Road. |
| | 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 m16558) HM |
| On North Chipmunk Road 1.3 miles east of County Highway K, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 |
| On Myrick Park Road 0.3 miles north of La Crosse Street. |
| |
The Effigy is that of the Turtle Clan
Two of the Burial Mounds
have been Restored.
— — Map (db m141965) HM |
| Near Grandad Bluff Road 1 mile west of Bliss Road. |
| |
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 m28830) WM |
| |
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 m141774) HM |
| On La Crosse Street (State Highway 16) 0.2 miles east of Lang Drive (State Highway 35), on the left when traveling east. |
| | 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 |
| Near Interstate 90 at milepost 1 west of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 |
| On Myrick Park Road 0.3 miles north of La Crosse Street. |
| |
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 |
| On 3rd Street South (U.S. 14/61) south of Market Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| Near Losey Boulevard south of Market Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| |
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 |
| |
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 m141957) HM |
| On Powell Street south of Saint Andrew Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On East Veterans Memorial Dr. 0.2 miles north of State Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
Type: Wooden sidewheel riverboat
Built: 1854, Fulton, Ohio
Sank: May 14, 1870
Length: 219’ Beam: 29’
Cargoes: Mail, package freight, passengers, troops
Propulsion: Paddlewheel
Depth of Wreckage: 10’
Determined Eligible for National . . . — — Map (db m83772) HM |
| On State Street at Front Street North, on the right when traveling west on State Street. |
| | 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 |
| On State Highway 33 at Lost Ridge Road/Strittmater Road on State Highway 33. |
| | Coulee is a term derived from the French verb "couler," meaning to flow. The area before you and in the entire coulee region of west central Wisconsin has been dissected by water erosion into a series of narrow ridges separated by steep-sided . . . — — Map (db m33420) HM |
| |
Casting a glance up and down the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River Valley from Grandad Bluff, you can see a portion of the geological region called the Driftless Area. Its ridge and valley topography is both beautiful and distinct: there . . . — — Map (db m141950) HM |
| Near Interstate 90 at milepost 1 west of Lakeshore Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | From Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois, the upper Mississippi River flows through America's heartland for over 1100 miles. Its currents have borne the Indian's canoe, the explorer's dugout, and the trader's packet. Jacques Marquette, Louis . . . — — Map (db m15594) HM |
| Near State Highway 16 0.3 miles north of State Highway 157, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This is the location of a village occupied between 1000 and 1200 by the Oneota, ancestors of the Winnebago and Ioway. The village site was chosen by the Oneota to make the best use of the area for farming, fishing, hunting, transportation, and . . . — — Map (db m15402) HM |
| On State Highway 108 at McClintock Road, on the right when traveling south on State Highway 108. |
| | This cut, located at the highest point on state highway 108 between Mindoro and West Salem, is 74 feet deep and 25 feet wide. It was hand-hewn out of hard rock in 1907-08. All work was completed with only horse-drawn equipment and hand tools. As far . . . — — Map (db m23677) HM |
| On Amsterdam Prairie Road 1.5 miles north of Great River Road (State Highway 35), on the left when traveling north. |
| | In the early 1850s Scottish immigrant Alexander McGilvray established a small settlement and ferry service, both known as "McGilvray's Ferry," along the Black River. For the next forty years the ferry made seasonal river crossings despite frequent . . . — — Map (db m54581) HM |
| Near Interstate 90 at milepost 20, 0.4 miles east of County Highway J, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 m24032) HM |
| Near Asmus Road (State Highway 108) 0.2 miles west of County Highway C, on the right when traveling north. |
| | "A Son of the
Middle Border"
is buried here
with his wife
and
pioneer parents. — — Map (db m8913) HM |
| On State Highway 16 east of State Highway 108, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Gifted author of this region, Hamlin Garland was born at West Salem September 14, 1860, and died March 4, 1940. His ashes rest in the Garland family plot in Neshonoc cemetery, heart of the Coulee Country immortalized in his books, “Trailmakers . . . — — Map (db m8918) HM |
| On State Highway 16 east of State Highway 108, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The nearby limestone grist mill and dam are the remnants of what once was a mid-19th century village located at this site. Vermont millwright and speculator Monroe Palmer purchased fifteen acres of land on the La Crosse River and constructed the dam . . . — — Map (db m23417) HM |
RSS Feed