This plain was made thousands of years ago by rivers of water flowing from hills of melting glacial ice that lay a short distance north and east of here. The summer flood waters first laid down gravel, which was then covered by four feet of fertile . . . — — Map (db m36822) HM
Born in Canton Valais, Switzerland.
Emigrated to America in 1848.
Enlisted in Co. E. 6th Wis. Vol. Inf. 1861.
Served in the Iron Brigade
under Gen. Bragg. Wounded at Antietam
and taken prisoner at Gettysburg.
Honorably discharged in . . . — — Map (db m33768) HM
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1861•1865
To Our Dead Comrades
Erected by J. A. Kellogg W.R.C. No. 70. 1905
Roster
John A. Kellogg Post No. 78
G. A. R.
F. E. Allen •
J. B. Beemer •
W. B. Brainard •
C. Beadlestone • . . . — — Map (db m78924) WM
This property has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior
Antigo Post Office 1916 — — Map (db m129809) HM
By the 1920s, the once vast forests of Wisconsin had been reduced from more than 30 million acres to about 2 million through farm clearing and lumbering practices that left large cut-over areas. In 1927 the Wisconsin legislature passed the County . . . — — Map (db m33725) HM
This tolling bell originally hung on a dam near Prairie du Sac, WI. and was manned by "Cap" Dinsmore, (father of Lee Dinsmore) during World War II to warn against flooding or sabotage. It has been donated to our cemetery by Lee and Perk Dinsmore to . . . — — Map (db m39279) HM
The Village of Langlade and Langlade County were named for Charles Michel de Langlade, who has been called the "Father of Wisconsin." Born at the trading post of Mackinac in 1729, de Langlade's character, military ability, and influence left a . . . — — Map (db m36825) HM
In March 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress which enabled the states of Michigan and Wisconsin to begin construction of a road between Fort Howard at Green Bay and Fort Wilkins near Copper Harbor. It took one year to build the . . . — — Map (db m36896) HM