Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The interior of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | The interior of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Marquette monument, in memory of the discovery of the Mississippi River by Father Marquette and Louis Joliet. The monument was unveiled on St. Mary's Colle... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Caption reads: "Main Street, looking East. Prairie du Chien, Wis." View down street with a large building on the right. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | LaPointe house built about the time of the War of 1812, and razed in 1921. It was originally a log structure which was later clapboarded, but the logs stil... |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Kane's Hotel, built in about 1839 by Ezekiel Tainter, and then called the Phoenix Hotel, on Main Street. It passed through many hands but retained the orig... |
Date: | 1906 |
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Description: | View of the high school, with children are playing in the school yard. Caption reads: "High School, Prairie du Chien, Wis." |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Galtier tomb, burial place of Father Lucien Galtier who was chaplain of the parish from 1847 to 1866. |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elizabeth. Rolette died in 1842. The cemetery itself may date as early as the middle of the 17th Century. |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | French Cemetery, showing grave of Alice Irene Shoemaker who died in January of 1862. Calvary Cemetery is in the background. |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | French Cemetery, showing the grave of Mrs. Alexander Gardipe. |
Date: | 1953 |
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Description: | Tombstone of Jean Joseph Rolette, first agent of the American Fur Company at this post, in the French Cemetery. |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Fort Shelby built in 1814 and named for the Governor of Kentucky, was surrendered to British forces later in 1814 and renamed Fort McKay. Pictured here is ... |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
Date: | 1840 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
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