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Built by Marcus Sears and Katherine Johnston Bell in 1884, the house was only owned by one other family. Ed and Catherine (Kate) Hickey Tierney bought the farm in 1910. The farmhouse, barn, and granary are now on the National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m158100) HM
This log building was originally used as a barn. At the Heritage Center, it is being used as a combination blacksmith and carpenter shop. The log barn was donated to the Center by Agnes and Anthony Tamoshaitis in memory of Agnes' parents, Albert . . . — — Map (db m158097) HM
St. Croix County was once dotted with one-room country schoolhouses, all of which have been razed or converted to other uses. Camp Nine School, which was located near Glenwood City, Wisconsin, was one of the last which could still be salvaged. The . . . — — Map (db m158099) HM
John Doar was born on December 3, 1921 and lived just west of here at 510 West First Street with his parents, William Thomas Doar, Sr. and Mary Frances (May) Doar, and his older brother, William Thomas Doar, Jr. (Tom).
As boys, John and Tom . . . — — Map (db m147373) HM
Near North Knowles Avenue just north of 1st Street.
During his years in the Civil Rights Division, John was involved in many of the most important challenges of the civil rights struggle. As the lead person in the South for the federal government, he was called the "law-bringer south of the . . . — — Map (db m147399) HM
Near North Knowles Avenue, 0.1 miles north of 1st Street.
John prosecuted two important civil rights cases involving murder. In 1965, he led the successful prosecution of the members of Ku Klux Klan who had participated in the murder of Viola Liuzzo who was killed in the hours after the Selma march.
In . . . — — Map (db m147400) HM
This German Evangelical Church was built in 1890. At that time every church had its cemetery. This small collection of gravestones represents our Heritage Center Church Cemetery. The stones are all from New Richmond. The tall memorial marker for . . . — — Map (db m158278) HM
A search for a small, classic, wooden church with three side windows and a bell tower, the type built by pioneers as they pushed west, took Heritage Center volunteers several years. The perfect church was finally located in South Superior, . . . — — Map (db m158277) HM
On West 1st Street at Minnesota Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West 1st Street.
John Doar was born December 3, 1921, in Minneapolis and grew up in New Richmond, Wisconsin. He graduated from Princeton University and received his law degree from the University of California at Berkeley. John returned to New Richmond in 1950 to . . . — — Map (db m147256) HM
Near North Knowles Avenue just north of 1st Street.
In the years following the impeachment inquiry, John practiced law in New York and around the country. He frequently returned to New Richmond and, along with his brother Tom, contributed to the life of New Richmond in many ways.
In May of 2012, . . . — — Map (db m147402) HM
On Campus Drive, 0.1 miles south of Homestead Drive, on the left when traveling south.
The New Richmond Cyclone of 1899 remains the most disastrous tornado recorded in Wisconsin history. On the hot summer evening of June 12, with little warning and amazing force, a tornado swept through the thriving agricultural community of . . . — — Map (db m21276) HM
The Italianate style farmhouse was built in 1884 by Marcus Sears Bell, an early developer in new Richmond. He gave up his post as village president when he moved outside of the village to breed prize-winning cattle at this farm. In 1910 the Tierney . . . — — Map (db m69570) HM
Near North Knowles Avenue, 0.1 miles north of 1st Street.
In 1967, John left the Civil Rights Division to move to New York to lead an anti-poverty program begun by Sen. Robert Kennedy in Bedford Stuyvesant, a poor neighborhood in the center of Brooklyn.
During his first years in Brooklyn, he also . . . — — Map (db m147401) HM
The Northside House was built in two stages, the taller section in 1890 by August Anderson and his brother-in-law John Arnquist. In 1894, August and his wife Mary built an addition. It has been named the Northside House by the New Richmond . . . — — Map (db m158256) HM
By 1855, Paperjack Creek and the nearby Willow River had each attracted a few settlers. A rivalry developed between settlements but was resolved in 1858 when the village was platted at the Willow River site. It is thought that the unusual name for . . . — — Map (db m69571) HM
After going east for college and west for law school, and serving in the Army Air Corps, John came home to New Richmond in 1950 to practice law with his father, brother Tom and cousin Warren.
In July 1960, John left New Richmond to move to . . . — — Map (db m147374) HM
Located on County Road F east of Deronda, the town of Ubet essentially no longer exists. In 1910 the town consisted of a blacksmith shop, warehouse, creamery, shoe repair shop, post office, horse stable, ice house, general store and feed mill. . . . — — Map (db m158098) HM
