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On State Highway 33, 0.2 miles west of County Highway F, on the left when traveling east.
In the autumn of 1828 a permanent fort was built on this site by the First Regiment of the United States Infantry under the command of Maj. David E. Twiggs, later a general in the Confederate Army. The fort was constructed primarily to control the . . . — — Map (db m2364) HM
Near East Cook Street (State Highway 33) 0.1 miles west of County Highway F, on the left when traveling north.
Home of Army Surgeons 1834 - 1845 Occupied by Francis LeRoy before 1828 Restored by Wisconsin Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 1954 — — Map (db m42904) HM
On Wisconsin Street (State Highway 16) at Cook Street (State Highway 33) on Wisconsin Street.
Considered the most important historian of the United States in the twentieth century, Frederick Jackson Turner brought a new understanding to the meaning of the American experience. He was born in Portage; his father was Andrew Jackson Turner, a . . . — — Map (db m216262) HM
On Agency House Road, 0.8 miles north of East Albert Street, on the left when traveling north. Reported permanently removed.
The Indian Agency House was built in 1832 by the United States Government for John Harris Kinzie and his wife Juliette Magill Kinzie. John Kinzie was the Indian Agent to the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians. He had been assigned by the Government to . . . — — Map (db m230836) HM
On State Highway 33 at East Cook Street, on the right when traveling east on State Highway 33.
Ketchum’s Point, named for a local family, stands above the low, marshy Portage connecting the Fox River and Great Lakes with the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. This waterway served as a vital thoroughfare for supplies and furs during the fur . . . — — Map (db m2407) HM
On State Highway 33, 0.2 miles west of County Road F, on the left when traveling east.
On June 14, 1673 Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet started the portage (1.28 miles) from here to the Wisconsin River, which led to their discovery of the Upper Mississippi June 17, 1673 at Prairie du Chien. The expedition, in two birch bark . . . — — Map (db m2341) HM
On Cook Street (State Highway 33), on the right when traveling south.
Landing place of the ferry built by Pierre Pauquette and operated by him from about 1828 until his death in 1836. This ferry was in use until the first bridge was built across the Wisconsin River in 1857. — — Map (db m74344) HM
On County Highway CM at County Highway T, on the left when traveling east on County Highway CM.
Near here in 1849 Thomas Twiggs began a settlement of unemployed potters from Staffordshire, England. To help farmers on both sides of the Fox River reach his store and blacksmith shop at Twiggs' Landing, he operated Emancipation Ferry, named to . . . — — Map (db m20084) HM
On County Highway EE, 0.2 miles east of State Highway 33, on the right when traveling east.
Patriots Cooper Pixley and Alexander Porter served the cause of gaining our nation's independence while dedicated members of the military. Both are buried in Section 33 of this National Soldiers Rest. Cooper Pixley, born in Great Barrington, . . . — — Map (db m42899) HM
On State Highway 33, 0.2 miles west of County Highway F, on the left when traveling east.
1828 — 1845
Surrender of Red Bird
Noted Winnebago Chief
1827
Erected by Wau-Bun Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1924 — — Map (db m4609) HM
On MacFarlane Road at West Franklin Street, on the right when traveling south on MacFarlane Road.
This 137 building district is bounded, in part, by Emmett, Cass, Wisconsin and MacFarlane streets. Most of the houses were constructed between 1870 and 1910 and are in the Italianate and Queen Anne architectural styles.
Society Hill reflects . . . — — Map (db m20042) HM
On Agency House Road, 0.9 miles north of East Albert Street, on the left when traveling north.
This home, constructed for Indian sub-agent John H. Kinzie, served as an embassy between the Federal Government and the Hoocak (Ho-Chunk, Winnebago) Nation during a turbulent period of cultural convergence and the initiation of the Hoocak Trail . . . — — Map (db m230837) HM
On Prospect Ave at Wisconsin Avenue (State Highway 16), on the right when traveling west on Prospect Ave.
Trinity United
Church of Christ
Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Trinitatus Evangelische
1871 — — Map (db m108279) HM
On Cook Street (State Highway 33) at Wisconsin Street (State Highway 16) on Cook Street.
Zona Gale was born August 26, 1874, in Portage. She graduated in 1899 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Masters in Literature. Gale then spent six years as a journalist in Milwaukee and New York.
Her visits to Portage . . . — — Map (db m20009) HM
