Historical Markers in Delavan, Wisconsin

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Historical Markers in Delavan, Wisconsin

1 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Delavan — 440 — Birthplace of “The Greatest Show on Earth” —

On South Seventh Street at Wisconsin Avenue, on the right when traveling south on South Seventh Street.

At this site, March 20, 1871, the first P.T. Barnum Circus was loaded on rail cars and transported to Brooklyn, NY where it made its initial performance on April 10, 1871. The circus was conceived and organized in Delavan by William C. Coup and Dan . . . — — Map (db m109261) HM

2 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Delavan — 344 — Delavan’s Historic Brick Street —

On East Walworth Avenue, 0.1 miles east of Main Street, on the right when traveling west.

Dusty and rutted in dry spells, muddy and miserable in wet, Delavan’s main street, Walworth Avenue, remained unpaved from the 1830’s until the second decade of the 20th century. In 1911, Delavan’s City Council voted to pave the three block central . . . — — Map (db m230140) HM

3 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Delavan — 128 — Delavan's Circus Colony —

On West Walworth Avenue (State Highway 11) at North Vine Street, on the right when traveling west on West Walworth Avenue.

In 1847 two New York brothers, Edmund and Jeremiah Mabie, toured Wisconsin with their United States Olympic Circus. The circus stopped over in Delavan and the brothers took time off to hunt prairie chicken near Delavan Lake. They liked the area so . . . — — Map (db m230139) HM

4 ► Wisconsin, Walworth County, Delavan — 166 — Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf —

On West Walworth Avenue (State Highway 11) at Beloit Street (County Route X), on the right when traveling west on West Walworth Avenue.

In 1839 Ebenezer Cheseboro emigrated to Wisconsin from New York and settled in the town of Darien, two miles west of Delavan on the Janesville road. Due to the lack of a school for his deaf daughter, Ariadna, a teacher of the deaf was hired to come . . . — — Map (db m33473) HM

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