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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Stevens Point
Stevens Point, Wisconsin and Vicinity
▶ Portage County (27) ▶ Adams County (8) ▶ Marathon County (35) ▶ Shawano County (8) ▶ Waupaca County (35) ▶ Waushara County (9) ▶ Wood County (54)
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| Near Clark Street (State Highway 66) at Water Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Parachutes • Air Assault
Gliders • Glider Pilots
Airborne
Forces
Memorial
To Their Perpetual Honor
Presented By The Citizens Of
Wisconsin
and
The Badger State Chapter
of the
82nd Airborne Division Association . . . — — Map (db m51431) HM |
| On Franklin Street 0.2 miles west of Forest Street when traveling west. |
| | The residents of Stevens Point depended on the Wisconsin River not only to transport logs, but also to provide clam shells for the button industry. The clammers found an abundance of quality shells in the river to support a commercial venture. In . . . — — Map (db m5466) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 66) at Soo Marie Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
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Born in Poland 1747
organizer of
the American cavalry
during the
Revolutionary War.
Erected in commemoration
of the 150th anniversary of his death
1779, at Savannah, GA. — — Map (db m29661) HM |
| On Clark Street (State Highway 66) east of Third Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Here, for 110 years, stood District School No. 2, the oldest public building in Stevens Point. Completed in 1850, its appearance reflecting its New England heritage, it served the pioneer community as school, recreation, and civic center, and . . . — — Map (db m20969) HM |
| Near State Highway 66 at Deer Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | About 1840, near this site, Bloomer & Harper built one of the important early sawmills in northern Wisconsin. It was long known as McGreer's Mill, named for an early owner. By 1890, over 700 million feet of lumber, much of it sawed here, was floated . . . — — Map (db m20745) HM |
| On Main Street (State Highway 66) at Soo Marie Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Main Street. |
| | When World War I started in 1914, Poland was divided between the empires of Prussia, Austria, and Russia. In 1917, a Polish National Committee organized regiments of Polish-American men to fight under a Polish flag in Europe. Forty-eight . . . — — Map (db m138225) HM |
| On Church Street south of Arlington Place, on the right when traveling north. |
| | 1861–1865
Portage County
to
her heroes who fought
and
her martyrs who fell
that
the Republic might live. — — Map (db m29364) HM |
| Near Main Street at Second Street. |
| | The first land entry affecting Stevens Point after the Indian treaty of 1836 was made by Andrew Mullarkey in 1844. This land was purchased by Mathias Mitchell who in 1847 platted four streets and the Public Square. A Liberty Pole with homemade flag . . . — — Map (db m20928) HM |
| On First Street at Fourth Avenue on First Street. |
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In Loving Memory Of
Those Who Gave Their Lives
World War I
Benjamin J. Brill · Peter P. Kulas · Frank Novak · Frank E. Printz · Walter F. Winecke · Frank M. Zylka
World War II
John Bartkowiak · Felix Blavat · Eugene . . . — — Map (db m41815) HM |
| On Fremont Street at Stanley Street, on the left when traveling north on Fremont Street. |
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"These Made The
Supreme Sacrifice"
Bekowski, Andrew
Cisewski, Leonard
Domack, Eugene
Drifka, Raphae
Glodowski, Chester
Koltz, Benedict
Mayek, John
Maziarka, Edward
Peskie, Frank
Shafranski, William
Vaughan, Rolyn . . . — — Map (db m41836) HM |
| Near Crosby Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | This plaque commemorates the pioneers who established Stevens Point during the 1840’s, 50’s and 60’s. Community life centered here at the foot of Main Street where supplies were transshipped from wagon to boat for the trip north to lumber camps. . . . — — Map (db m1038) HM |
| On Division Street (Business U.S. 51) south of Franklin Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | One of an estimated twenty-four such statues in the world, this Boy with the Leaking Boot is thought to have been purchased in 1895 as part of an improvement project for Stevens Point's Public Square. The Boy design may have originated in Italy (or . . . — — Map (db m26412) HM |
| On Monroe Street at Wyatt Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Monroe Street. |
| | Once the rail hub of central Wisconsin, Stevens Point’s Historic Southside Railroad Complex still contains buildings, engines and tracks that evoke the time when the railroad was the dominant means of transportation in the country. The first train . . . — — Map (db m1033) HM |
| On Division Street at Monroe Street on Division Street. |
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In memory of those
from this community who
answered their country's call.
Martin Adam · Frank Adams, Jr. · Romulus Berens · Anastazia Blaskoske · Raymond Borgen · Benjamin Brill · Darrell D. Burtis · Reynold Chapman · George H. Chase · Max . . . — — Map (db m36957) HM |
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