About 15,000 years ago, waves lapped against the upper reaches of the rocky bluff in front of you. Mill Bluff was an island in Glacial Lake Wisconsin. You are standing on the bottom of this former glacial lake.
This lake formed when glacial . . . — — Map (db m252789) HM
You are standing on what was once the bottom of a glacial lake in which Castle Rock, the formation rising before you, was an island. Thousands of years of erosion by water, ice and wind created the surface features you see in this area.
The . . . — — Map (db m4230) HM
To the south and west lie hundreds of square miles of sandstone and dolomite uplands. These extensive rock layers once overlaid this area, but streams have eroded them away. Today, only isolated remnants of this large upland remain. Mill Bluff . . . — — Map (db m252862) HM
About 15,000 years ago these bluffs became islands in a great body of water called Glacial Lake Wisconsin. Shorter bluffs like Ragged Rock were sometimes totally submerged under icy waters more than 80 feet deep. At its maximum the lake extended . . . — — Map (db m253133) HM
Deep winter in Wisconsin lasts about three months. But during the last two million years, dramatic shifts in climate produced periods with longer winters. These cold spells lasted thousands of years. As snow accumulated an ice sheet formed and . . . — — Map (db m40197) HM
Lt. Volk was the first Wisconsin Air National Guard pilot killed in the Korean Conflict. Jerome Volk was born March 17, 1925, and attended Rufus King High School in Milwaukee. Volk enlisted, went to pilot training, and was commissioned during . . . — — Map (db m39165) HM
If you were traveling through the area in the 1850s, Mill Bluff and other bluffs in the region would have guided you on your journey. They still do.
A network of major transportation systems crisscoss the Central Sands near Mill Bluff State . . . — — Map (db m252587) HM
Long Bluff - named for its shape, is one of many bluffs found in this area. It is approximately 199 feet high. You are standing on Mill Bluff which is 120 feet tall.
A portion of the open land visible is an abandoned cranberry marsh. . . . — — Map (db m253244) HM
This is Mill Bluff, one of many isolated and rocky castle-like hills which rise abruptly from the surrounding plain. This formation is properly called a mesa (Spanish for "table") if large and butte if small.
Mesas and buttes in this driftless . . . — — Map (db m31736) HM
The air field lying east of Mill Bluff is part of the Volk Field Air National Guard Training Site located adjacent to the Village of Camp Douglas. The airplane runway you see is oriented due east to west. It is 9000 feet long and 150 feet wide . . . — — Map (db m253458) HM
That's right. About 10,000 years ago, as the last of the Ice Age glaciers melted, a huge lake called Lake Wisconsin covered all but the tallest bluffs you now see.
The water level varied from 60 to 80 feet deep and covered a vast plain . . . — — Map (db m253032) HM
Following the Civil War, state officials reorganized the Wisconsin Militia and in 1879 renamed it the Wisconsin National Guard. Adjutant General Chandler P. Chapman of Madison, a veteran of the famed Iron Brigade, purchased 440 acres near the . . . — — Map (db m31744) HM
The thanks of the Nation is extended through the President, Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States to the people of The Winnebago Tribe in Wisconsin for their unswerving loyalty and patriotism, the splendid service . . . — — Map (db m37190) HM
