On Prospect Avenue (State Highway 73) at 9th Street, on the left when traveling north on Prospect Avenue.
Robert Friedrich, who devoted a lifetime to the sport of wrestling, claims Nekoosa as his boyhood home. Born in 1890, he began his wrestling career at the age of sixteen when he challenged another local rival to raise funds for his baseball team. . . . — — Map (db m1963) HM
Near Park Street south of Market Street (Wisconsin Highway 173), on the left when traveling south.
This memorial dedicated
by parents, relatives and friends
to perpetuate the memory of
our valiant defenders of freedom
who made the supreme sacrifice.
World War I
Hamel, Archie ·
Huggins, Robert ·
Jackon, Lucas ·
Larsen, . . . — — Map (db m42402) HM
On Point Basse Avenue (County Highway AA) 0.5 miles south of Hillcrest Lane, on the left when traveling south.
Lower limit of upper Wisconsin country. Called by Indians Ban-Gah-Je-Wung. First sawmill built just below here by Daniel Whitney in 1831. A strip three miles wide both sides of the Wisconsin ceded by Menominee Indians in 1836 from Point Bas forty . . . — — Map (db m7679) HM
On Wakely Road, 0.3 miles west of County Highway Z, on the left when traveling west.
Point Basse, the French term for "low point" or "shallows," is located in what is now the Wood County township of Saratoga. For thousands of years Native Americans crossed the Wisconsin River here, the midpoint of a trail that ran east and . . . — — Map (db m76360) HM
Near Prospect Avenue (State Highway 73) 0.5 miles north of State Highway 173, on the right when traveling north.
Five rapids covering a distance of about three miles in this area were referred to as Nekoosa (swift water) by the Chippewa Indians, who made their campground on high Swallow Rock overlooking these rapids. At the lower end of the rapids, Wakeley’s . . . — — Map (db m1109) HM
Near Prospect Avenue (State Highway 73) near 10th Street, on the right when traveling north.
[seal of The Liberty Tree]
All Gave Some
Some Gave All
Nekoosa Veterans of
Foreign Wars
Domtar Industries Inc.
Dedicated 11 November 2004 — — Map (db m50257) HM
On Wakely Road, 0.3 miles west of County Highway Z, on the left when traveling west. Reported missing.
Built in 1831, Wakely’s Tavern and Trading Post was the first white settler’s house in present Wood County. River piers, shingle mill, warehouse, and gunpowder pit contributed to making this site a rendezvous for Indians, voyageurs, lumbermen . . . — — Map (db m1193) HM
