This low velocity Fish Passageway has been designed by Friends of Beckman Mill to provide fish access around Beckman millpond. This dam is located in the west branch of Raccoon Creek water shed approximately one mile north of the Illinois/Wisconsin . . . — — Map (db m271633) HM
Wisconsin's first commercial tobacco was raised in Dane and Rock counties by cousins Orrin and Ralph Pomeroy in 1854. Grown as a cash crop to supplement dairy income, Wisconsin tobacco is used as a binder in making cigars. Because of the large . . . — — Map (db m248953) HM
The Sheepskin School was build on Wisconsin Highway 59 just west of Edgerton in District 6, Fulton Township, Rock County. One theory for its name is from sheep "skins" drying on a nearby fence. The 1894-95 Attendance Book lists 31 students, but . . . — — Map (db m167644) HM
On this spot and in a small frame church known as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, gathered on the Fifth Day of June, 1860, the following named ministers of the gospel:
L. P. Esbuörn · T. N. Hasselquist
P. . . . — — Map (db m26317) HM
In 1854 Ole and Guri Sorbel immigrated to Rock County Wisconsin from Hallingdal, Norway. In 1856 they settled to your right on the northwest bank of Lake Linden. On September 21, 1876, Bob, Cole and Jim Younger and Charlie Pitts received breakfast . . . — — Map (db m68073) HM
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”If you didn't drink whiskey, play cards, use your fists or otherwise intimidate, you didn't belong in the arena with Frank Pettigrew… a man who came to the Dakotas with nothing but desire, talent and ambition. He pitched his . . . — — Map (db m124226) HM
The first pioneers to settle in this area arrived by July, 1856, three months after their oxen-drawn prairie schooners left Rock County, Wisconsin. They were the families of Henrik H. Thoen, Ole H. Ness, Nels H. Colberg and bachelors Ole H. . . . — — Map (db m92468) HM
The greater Stoughton area was hunted and trapped by the Ho-Chunk Nation and other Native American tribes through the 1700's. Surveyed in 1833, the Stoughton area was described as being populated with timber and carpeted with prairie along the . . . — — Map (db m274503) HM
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