Historical Markers and War Memorials in Ashland County, Wisconsin

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Ashland County, Wisconsin

1 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — Doctor Edwin Ellis — 1824 - 1903 — Father of Ashland —

A man of indomitable faith, he brought culture to a wilderness. Learning and religion were of first concern. Freely giving to both, he labored unceasingly for a city whose good lay very close to his heart. — — Map (db m94062) HM

2 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — 304 — Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy —

William Daniel Leahy was born in Iowa in 1875 and his family soon moved to Wisconsin. He graduated from Ashland High School in 1892 and for the rest of his life considered Ashland his home town. Leahy graduated from the Naval Academy and served . . . — — Map (db m204096) HM

3 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — 224 — Northland College —

North Wisconsin Academy, founded in 1892 by the Congregational Churches, provided the first high school education available to young people of the small, isolated lumber camp, sawmill and farm communities in the area known as the Great Lakes Pinery, . . . — — Map (db m209668) HM

4 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — 6 — Radisson-Groseilliers Fort —

A crude structure of boughs of trees “layed acrosse, one upon an other” was erected near here by Pierre Radisson and Medart Groseilliers in 1659. The two French traders came to Chequamegon Bay from Montreal and Radisson's account of . . . — — Map (db m48410) HM

5 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — Schooner Lucerne — Historic Shipwreck — Wisconsin’s Maritime Trails —

Type: Wooden Schooner, three-masted Built: 1873, Parsons & Humble, Tonawanda, N.Y. Sank: November 17, 1886 Length: 195’ Beam: 34’ Cargo: Grain, coal, and iron ore Depth: 20’ Lives Lost: 9 Listed on the National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m210257) HM

6 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Ashland — Security Savings Bank —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Security Savings Bank 1889 — — Map (db m125034) HM

7 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Glidden — Glidden State Bank —

Glidden State Bank Circa 1905 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior Nominated by Jerry Hellenbrand - 2006 — — Map (db m47483) HM

8 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Glidden — 54 — Great Divide —

You are now on the great divide which separates the two principal drainage areas of Wisconsin. Water falling to the north of this point finds its way into Lake Superior, then down through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River 2,000 miles into . . . — — Map (db m47222) HM

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9 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Glidden — World's Largest White Pine Log — Biggest & Last Sleigh Hauled Log —

This white pine log was sleigh hauled to Glidden on Dec. 21, 1984 on the sleigh it sets on. It was cut on State 40 14 miles east of Glidden. Its estimated weight is 7000 lbs. The 20 ft log scaled 1960 [?] board ft. Estimated age 500 to 600 . . . — — Map (db m47534) HM

10 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — Early Vessels — Wisconsin's Maritime Trails —

Native American canoes launched North America’s maritime legacy about 12,000 years ago, making them among the world’s oldest watercraft. The origins of the birchbark canoe are told in the oral traditions of the Ojibwe people. The spirit . . . — — Map (db m57836) HM

11 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — Gidanamikaagoo omaa Mooningwanekaaning —

... means welcome to Madeline Island in Anishinaabe (also called Ojibwe), the native language of the Ojibwe Tribes.

Madeline Island is the spiritual home of the Ojibwe people, who lived here hundreds of years before the first . . . — — Map (db m165829) HM

12 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — Human History at Big Bay —

Early Native American Inhabitants
People have been using and occupying sites in the Apostle Islands area for thousands of years. But it was probably not until after 800 A.D. that more extensive use of the islands took place in the form of . . . — — Map (db m165677) HM

13 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — La Pointe Indian Cemetery —

Established about 1836 as part of a Roman Catholic mission under the guidance of the dynamic Austrian priest, Frederick Baraga, later made a bishop. The white man's style of house was adopted as a grave cover by the Christianized Ojibway . . . — — Map (db m144130) HM

14 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — 108 — Madeline Island — Known to the Ojibway Indians as Moningwunakauning, "The Home of The Golden Breasted Woodpecker" —

The largest of the Apostle Islands was one of the earliest areas of Indian settlement, fur trade, missionary activity and commercial fishing in the interior of North America. It was discovered by French explorers in 1659. Trading posts were built . . . — — Map (db m57662) HM

15 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, La Pointe — Michel Cadotte —

A French-Canadian trader built a post on this site about 1792. From his wife Madeline daughter of the Chippewa chief White Crane the island takes its present name. The official French fort La Pointe was built in 1718 about 500 feet west. Its . . . — — Map (db m144128) HM

16 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Mellen — Jeanne D'Arc Willow —

This willow tree began as a spring from a tree taken from the grounds of the birth place of Jeanne D'Arc of Dormery, Haute Marne, France. In May 1919, sprigs of this willow we're sent a number of Americans Legion Posts by the University of . . . — — Map (db m201014) HM

17 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Mellen — Legend of Mellen —

Mellen, Wisconsin, nestled in a valley in the heart of the Penokee Range, was founded in 1881 by Samuel O'Grady Bennett for which Bennett Street is named. Iron City, later renamed Mellen for William Mellen of the Wisconsin Central Railroad was . . . — — Map (db m201380) HM

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18 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Mellen — The Vietnam Memorial Tree —

In honor of those who served. In memory of: James Ledin and Melvin Gunderson, who gave the supreme sacrifice. This tree was planted, by Vietnam Veterans, on November 10, 2007, — — Map (db m201381) HM WM

19 ► Wisconsin, Ashland County, Odanah — 70 — The Bad River —

The Mauvaise (Bad) River was so named by the French due to the difficulties of its navigation. The Indians called it Mushkeezeebi or Marsh River. In 1845 the Rev. L.H. Wheeler, Protestant missionary at La Pointe, planned an agricultural settlement . . . — — Map (db m63661) HM

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