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WISCONSIN OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MARKERS Peshtigo Fire Cemetery Jefferson Prairie Settlement Shake Rag Radisson-Grosseilliers Fort Village of Dover Mississippi River Parkway: First Project Old Wade House State Park Villa Louis Aztalan State Park Home of Governor Harvey Old Abe, the War Eagle Old Stockade Site
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List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

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Page 1: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

WISCONSIN OFFICIAL HISTORICAL MARKERS

Peshtigo Fire Cemetery

Jefferson Prairie Settlement

Shake Rag

Radisson-Grosseilliers Fort

Village of Dover

Mississippi River Parkway: First Project

Old Wade House State Park

Villa Louis

Aztalan State Park

Home of Governor Harvey

Old Abe, the War Eagle

Old Stockade Site

Page 2: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Castle Rock

Brigham Park

Lake Ripley

First State Fair, October 1-2, 1851

Wisconsin River Headwaters

Site of Fort St Antoine

Gays Mills Apple Orchards

Wisconsin Lead Region

First Church of Christ Scientist

Dawn Manor - Site of Lost City of Newport

Knaggs Ferry

Tragedy of the Siskiwit

John Muir View

Nation's First Watershed Project

De Langlade

Battle of Bad Axe

First Forest Patrol Flight

Lake Pepin

Watertown Plank Road

State Historical Society

Page 3: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Old Military Road

Court Oreilles

Meadowmere

Ringling Brothers Circus

Invention of the Typewriter

Dutch Settlement

Auto Race - Green Bay to Madison

Highway Marking

Shawano

Poygan Paygrounds

Madeline Island

Namekagon - Court Oreilles Portage

Masonic Home

Old Copper Culture Cemetery

Great Divide

Northern Highland

First Electric Street Railway

Oneida Street Station, T.M.E.R. & L. Co.

Lac du Flambeau

Octagon House

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Watertown Plank Road Barn

Fort Winnebago

Red Banks

Marquette

Major "Dick" Bong

Phillips Fire

Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. (1925-1950)

Upper Fox River

Red Cloud Park

Menominee Reservation

Thirty-Second Division Memorial Highway

The Spark

Chief Waupaca

First Kindergarten

Belmont - Wisconsin Territory 1836

Dams on the Mississippi

Treaty of the Cedars

Mission of St Francis Xavier

Admiral Marc A. Mitscher

The Gideons

Page 5: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Decorah Peak

Thirty-Second Division Memorial Highway

Governor Rusk

9XM-WHA

Oldest Lutheran Church in Wisconsin

Cranberry Culture

Hop Raising

Tomah

The Baraboo Range

Chippewa River & Menomonie Railway

Horicon Marsh

Route of Abraham Lincoln 1832 and 1859

Lac Vieux Desert

Albion Academy

Radisson and Groseilliers

Orchards of Door County

Panther Intaglio

Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)

Hamlin Garland

Four Wheel Drive

Page 6: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Nelson Dewey

Wisconsin Dells

Eleazer Williams

Potters' Emigration Society

Milton House

Madeline Island

Wisconsin's Tobacco Land

New Glarus

Camp Randall

James Davidson

Gogebic Iron Range

Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill

Birthplace of Flag Day

Prairie du Chien

Nicolet National Forest

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Old Military Road

Brule-St Croix Portage

Du Bay Trading Post

Battle of Mole Lake

Page 7: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Forest Restoration - The Beginning

Mesas and Buttes

Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843-1931)

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (1855-1925)

Spirit Rock

Delavan's Circus Colony

Old Muskego

Point Basse

First Milwaukee Cargo Pier

The Battle of St. Croix Falls

Perrot's Post

Frank Lloyd Wright

Birthplace of Republican Party

Car-Ferry Service

Wisconsin Territory

Birthplace of an Airline

War of 1812

State Park Movement in Wisconsin

Wisconsin's First Aviator

School Consolidation

Page 8: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Last Covered Bridge

Milwaukee-Downer College

Rafting on the Mississippi

Father Samuel Mazzuchelli

Evergreen Park Cottage Sanatorium

Fort Koshkonong

Rural Electrification

"Kissel"

Saint John's Infirmary

Hazelwood

Maiden Rock

Beloit College

Black Hawk War

Nashotah Mission

The Home of Colby Cheese

Namekagon River

Sheboygan Indian Mound Park

Yellow River

Edgar Wilson Nye

Wisconsin's First School for the Deaf

Page 9: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

First Rural Zoning Ordinance

Milwaukee County's First Airport

John Muir Country

Brule River

Old Denniston House

Point of Beginning

Danish Cooperative Company

Caddie Woodlawn

Wisconsin's First 4-H Club

Thorstein Veblen

Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds

The Circus

The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1

First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin

Ceresco

Erastus B. Wolcott, M.D.

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Ripon College

Carroll College

St Mary's School of Nursing

Page 10: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Merrimac Ferry

Pere Marquette and Sieur Jolliet

East Troy Railroad

The Hodag

Wisconsin's First Iron Smelter

The Homme Homes

The Passenger Pigeon

Boyhood Home of Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906)

The Ice Cream Sundae

Coulee Country

Chippewa Valley White Pine

Brule-St Croix Waterway

Old North Point Water Tower

North Hall

Winnebago Indians

Sphagnum Moss - Wisconsin's Invisible Industry

S.S. Meteor, Last of the Whalebacks

Carl Sandburg Hall

Laona School Forest

The Military Road

Page 11: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

The Coulee Region

Northwest Portal of Wisconsin

S.J. Wittman - Aircraft Designer, Race Pilot, Inventor

Snowmobile

Summer White House – 1928

South Greenville Grange #225

Chief Win-no-shik, the Elder

Pine Was King

The Name "Wisconsin"

Bernard "Bunny" Berigan (1908-1942)

General Mitchell Field

Nation's First Cooperative Generating Station

La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor

Northland College

Samuel N. Rogers, Sr., Soldier of the American Revolution

Wisconsin Progressive Party

Black River Valley

Storrs Lake, Milton

Beef Slough

The Superior Entry

Page 12: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Rustic Road

Allen Family

Milwaukee Interurban Terminal, 1905-1951

Luther College

Revolutionary War Veterans

Shot Tower

Heritage Hill State Park

Silver Mound

Crex Meadows

Spence Park

Seils-Sterling Circus

St John's Military Academy

Clare A. Briggs – Cartoonist

Manitowoc's Maritime Heritage

Martin W. Torkelson (1878-1963)

Great Divide

Kemper Hall

Iowa County Courthouse

Winnebago Trail

Elroy-Sparta State Trail

Page 13: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Elroy-Sparta State Trail

Lannon Stone

Golda Meir

Drumlins

"Bow and Arrow"

Rest Areas on the I-Roads

Roche-a-Cri State Park

Birthplace of GTE (General Telephone & Electronics Corp.)

White Pillars

Wisconsin's Dairy Industry

The Upper Mississippi

Carl Frederick Zeidler

Rapides des Peres - Voyageur Park

Valley View Site

Wisconsin's Maritime Industries

The Wisconsin River

The Sand Counties - Aldo Leopold Territory

Rock River Industry

The Driftless Area

Carrie Chapman Catt

Page 14: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

First Workers Compensation Policy

Bay View's Rolling Mill

First State Normal School

Adrian "Addie" Joss

The Cobban Bridge

Wisconsin's Lime Industry

Antigo Silt Loam, State Soil of Wisconsin

First Swedish Settlers in Wisconsin

Birthplace of the American Water Spaniel

Grand Army Home

Wisconsin's Oldest Newspaper: The Milwaukee Sentinel

Manitowoc Submarines

The "Dinky"

National Soldiers Home

Civil War Camp

Historic Cedarburg

Mabel Tainter Memorial

Medal of Honor

Langlade County Forest-Wisconsin's First County Forest

First African-American Church Built in Wisconsin

Page 15: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Korean War

Prisoners of War

Major General C.C. Washburn

Janesville Tank Company

Wisconsin Military Reservation

Highground Veterans Memorial

World War II

Father Caspar Rehrl

Lorine Niedecker

Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy

Cordelia A.P. Harvey

World War I

Mormons in Early Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Pabst Theater

Third Ward Fire

Captain Frederick Pabst

The Iron Brigade

In Service to Their Country

Iron Mining in Wisconsin

Page 16: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Richard M. Brewer

John Deitz "Battle of Cameron Dam"

Frederick Jackson Turner

Camp Harvey

Wisconsin State Fair Park

The University of Wisconsin—Superior

Belgian Settlement in Wisconsin

Lake Koshkonong Effigy Mounds

Wisconsin's Greater Prairie Chicken

Governor James Taylor Lewis

Rawley Point Lighthouse

Boaz Mastodon

Sinking of the

Lapham Peak

Primrose Lutheran Church

Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled

Wisconsin's German Settlers

Early Dutch Settlers in Wisconsin

Kilbourntown

Fox-Irish Cemetery

Page 17: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Fort Defiance

Sir Henry Wellcome

Historic Mazomanie

The Lower Narrows

Edward S. Bragg

Yahara River Parkway

Town of Greenfield

Historic Cooksville/Historic Waucoma

Historic Mineral Point

Delavan’s Historic Brick Street

Solomon Juneau House

Rib Lake Lumber Company

Edgar Sawyer House

Historic Oostburg

Village of Neshonoc

The McGilvray “Seven Bridges Road”

Village of Potosi

How-Beckman Mill

Merrill Park

1998 Wisconsin Assembly

Page 18: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Historic Plum City

New Richmond Cyclone

Washington Avenue Historic District

Cedar Creek

Interurban Bridge

Main Street Historic District

Lucy Smith Morris

Ada James

McCoy House

Mann House

Shorewood Armory

Shorewood High School

Shorewood Village Hall

/Manitowoc and the Car Ferries

The Raube Road Site

Wisconsin’s Luxembourgers

Bay View’s Immigrants

Denmark

The Saukville Trails

Bohemian School House

Page 19: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Rock Mill

Green Bay Ethnic Trail

Historic Thiensville

Dheinsville Settlement

Rockbridge

Peck Cabin

African American Settlers of the Cheyenne Valley

Outlet Mound

Wisconsin’s First Home-Built Flying Machine

The Alexander Noble House

Nathaniel Dean, Dean House

Downtown Sheboygan Falls Historic District

Cole Historic District

Site of the First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Roche-a-Cri

Delafield Fish Hatchery

Northside Historic District of Cream Brick Cottages

Southside Historic District

Pleasant Ridge African American Community

Battle of Wisconsin Heights

Tragedy of War

Page 20: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Third Lake Passage

Pheasant Branch Encampment

Indian Lake Passage

The Pursuit West

Troop Encampment

Ocooch Mountains

Dodge’s Grove and Fort Union

Military River Crossing

Soldiers Grove Origin

Black Hawk War Encampment “Burnt Village”

Trail Discovery

Western Escape

Mabel Watson Raimey

Wisconsin Avenue Commercial Historic District

Van Hise Rock

The Wisconsin Chair Company Fire

The Chippewa Flowage

Stockbridge Harbor

Leathem and Smith Quarry

The Historic Southside Railroad Complex of Stevens Point

Page 21: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

New Holstein

Schaefer Mammoth Site

Lowell Women Firefighters

General Charles King

Historic Pardeeville

Viroqua’s First Settler

The Brothertown Indians of Wisconsin

St Francis Solanus Indian Mission

Northern Wisconsin State Fair

The Tragedy

Cornell Pulpwood Stacker

Russell Flats

Black Hawk’s Surrender

Fort Crawford

Laurence F. Graber, “Mr. Alfalfa,”

Herbert Kubly

Nickolaus Gerber

Silver Mine Ski Jump

Kenosha (Southport) Lighthouse

Governor Tommy G. Thompson’s 1998 Address at Wisconsin’s First Capitol

Page 22: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Merrill City Hall

Birthplace of “The Greatest Show on Earth”

Civilian Conservation Corp

George Washington School

Appolonia

St Nazianz

Lueddeman’s on-the-River

Stroud Bank

Janesville Plank Road

Zarahemla - Predecessor of Blanchardville

Zenas Gurley

Ketchum’s Point

County Home Cemetery Fond du Lac

Where Are the Falls of the St Croix?

Burr Robins Circus

The Auroraville Fountain

Historic Omro

Whistler Mound Group and Enclosure

Frederick Douglass

Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials

Page 23: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Village of Greendale

Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society

The Black Hawk War/Black Hawk’s Grove

Rescue of Joshua Glover

McAllister State Graded School

John McCaffery Burial Site

Alonzo Horton

Major Elbert Dickason/Dickason’s “Hotel”

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church

Revolutionary War Veteran

Three Arch Stone Bridge

Site of Fort Jackson

Auto Production in Kenosha

Villa Louis

Reuben Deming

The Cream City

Lena Road Schoolhouse

Collins Road Bridge Span

The Wind Point Lighthouse

Society Hill Historic District

Page 24: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Georgia O’Keeffe

Founder’s Square

Historic Okauchee

Home of Governor James Duane Doty (1799-1865)

Melvin O. Handrich – Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

Brady’s Bluff

U.S. Post Office

Masonic Lodge

Monroe County Courthouse

Sparta Free Library -

Revolutionary War Veteran

Soldiers of the American Revolution

Jacksonport United Methodist Church

Historic Fifield

Soldier of the American Revolution

St John’s Northwestern Military Academy

Royal Airport/Charles Lindbergh

Revolutionary War Veteran (Morgan)

The Schwartz Ballroom

Dr. Stephen Tainter - Revolutionary War Veteran

Page 25: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Revolutionary War Veteran (Powlis)

Brass Ball Corners

Gaylord Nelson

755 Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Elkhart Lake - Road Race Circuits

Revolutionary War Veterans

Pepin County Courthouse

Nowack House

Dells Mill

Village of Cassville

Revolutionary War Veterans

Zona Gale

First Methodist Episcopal Church

Princess Burial Mound

Revolutionary War Veteran David Waldo

English Settlement Cemetery

Iola Mills

Milwaukee Street Bridge

Donald “Deke” Slayton

The Episcopal Church of the Holy Nativity

Page 26: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

“The Gym”

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1230

Cold Spring Road

St Martins Church

Earliest Evergreen Burials/Evergreen Cemetery

Lake Delton Catastrophe

Patrick Joseph Lucey

Downtown Galesville Historic District

Ridge Avenue Historic District

Galesville College

The Blake House/Lucius Blake

Myron “Grim” Natwick

Port Washington Fire Engine House

North Point Light Station (Replaces Marker 214)

Mecikalski Stovewood Building

St. Hedwig’s/Poznan Colony

Stanley Toy Company

Haskell Noyes Memorial Woods

Historic Green Bay Road

Cotton House—Baird Law Office

Page 27: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

Roi-Porlier-Tank Cottage

Galesville Bridge

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church

Wallis Rowan and His Cabin

Port Washington Civil War Draft Riot

Battle of Pecatonica

CCC Veterans Memorial Bridge

Birthplace of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

Rifle Pit Legend/Wyona Park

The West Bend Aluminum Company

Pomeranian Settlement in Marathon County

Wisconsin Soldiers’ Home 1864-1867

The Merging of Milwaukee Downer and Lawrence Colleges

Roy Chapman Andrews

Vulcan Street Plant Replica

Leland Stanford

Historic Root River/Root River Parkway

New London Fairground

Elizabeth Batchelder Davis Children’s Home

Columbia County Asylum Cemetery

Page 28: List of Wisconsin Official Historical Markers · Kingsley Bend Indian Mounds The Circus The Holt & Balcom Logging Camp #1 First Teachers' Training School in Wisconsin Ceresco Erastus

The White Pine in Neillsville

Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb

Menasha’s Isle of Valor

Yorkville #4 School

East Park Historic District

The Moose Lake Dam

Couillardville Occupations

Bounty Land Warrant

Wisconsin State Water Ski Show Champions

Theordore Rietz Distillery

Union Soldiers Monument

Green's Prairie Cemetery

Bridge 13

Schwartz Family House

Lakeside Power Plant

John Doar

Survey of 1836/Greenfield 1836 “Greenery”

Farnsworth Public Library

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church

Henry James and Cremora Rogers Residence

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Milton College/Milton College Historic District

Dr. John E. Toepfer, 1948-2018