Dictionary of Wisconsin History
Search Results for: the letter 'Y'
Term: Yellow Banks
Definition: A region about 50 miles below the moouth of the Rock River on the Mississippi, on the east (Illinois) bank, where the Sauk and Fox often came to trade between 1790 and 1840. Upper Yellow Banks is today called New Boston; Middle Yellow Banks is Kiethsburg, Ill.; and Lower Yellow Banks, which the Indians called Oquawkiek, is today Oquawka, Ill.
[Source: City of Oquawka website]
38 records found
Yahara River Parkway (HIstoric Marker Erected 1996
Yahara River, Dane Co.
Yankees in Wisconsin
yard (maritime)
yard (railroads)
Yarnell, Sawyer Co.
Yawkey, Cyrus Carpenter 1862 - 1943
yawl (maritime)
Yellow Banks
yellow dogs
Yellow Lake, Burnett Co.
Yellow River (Historic Marker Erected 1968)
Yellow River, Town of, Burnett Co.
Yellow-dog contracts
Yellowlake [origin of place name]
Yellowstone, Election precinct of, Iowa Co.
Yellowstone, Lafayette Co.
York Center, Dane Co.
York Island [origin of place name]
York Township [origin of place name]
York, Dwight A. 1939
York, Jackson Co.
York, Stanley 1931
York, Town of, Clark Co.
York, Town of, Dane Co.
York, Town of, Green Co.
York, Town of, Sauk Co.
Yorkville, Racine Co.
Yorkville, Town of, Racine Co.
You-know (logging)
Youmans, Henry Mott 1851 - 1931
Youmans, Theodora Winton, 1863 - 1932
Young America, Washington Co.
Young, Leon D. 1967
Young, Rebecca 1934
Yuba [origin of place name]
Yuba, Richland Co.
Yuba, Village of, Richland Co.
|
