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Marker at Black Hawk Park

Date: 1925
Description: Pecatonica battlefield marker, Black Hawk Park (Lafayette County). The marker reads: "At this place on June 16,1832 between Wisconsin pioneers under Colone...
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Pecatonica Marker Dedication

Date: 1922
Description: Dedication of the Pecatonica Battleground marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdal Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of ...
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Pecatonica Battleground Marker

Date: 1922
Description: The Pecatonica Battlegound marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdale Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of Wiota...
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Aupaumut Memorial Tablet

Date: 06 14 1928
Description: The Aupaumut Memorial Tablet unveiling ceremony. The memorial is for Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, a Revolutionary War soldier, born 1757, died 1830. The tabl...
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Potawatomi Indian Monument

Date: 1947
Description: The stone monument for the Potawatomi Indians.
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Mound Tablet

Date: 1906
Description: View of a tablet indicating a mound site.
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Cutler House

Date: 1890
Description: Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W...
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Schurz's First Kindergarten

Date: 1947
Description: Side view of a monument erected on the site of Mrs. Carl Schurz's first kindergarten in America. A hand-pump is in the background near a brick wall.
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Schurz's Kindergarten Monument

Date: 1947
Description: Front view of a monument erected on the site of Mrs. Carl Schurz's first kindergarten in America.
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Vieau Trading Post Historical Site Marker

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Description: Jacques Vieau, agent for the Northwest Fur Company of Montreal, built a trading post here in 1796, on what is now called Jambo Creek after the nickname the...
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Stevens Monument

Date: 1925
Description: View of the Stevens monument, erected in honor of George Stevens, whom the town is named after, at the site where he landed in 1824.
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Charles E. Brown Among Burial Mounds on the Edgewood Campus

Date: 05 05 1939
Description: Charles E. Brown poses near a historic tablet marking one of a row of conical burial mounds on the Park and Pleasure drive on the north shore of Lake Wingr...
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Nicolet Monument

Date: 1906
Description: The Nicolet Monument.
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Nicolet Monument

Date: 1910
Description: The Nicolet Monument, erected by the Women's Clubs and unveiled in 1906.
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"Genesis" Sculpture

Date: 1930
Description: The "Genesis" sculpture by Schaler, on the campus of Ripon College.
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Civil War Shell

Date: 1931
Description: A shell of the Civil War period, recovered from the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and presented to the First Capitol State Park by the GAR...
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Masonic Temple Marker

Date: 1954
Description: Masonic Temple marker to commemorate the first Masonic Temple erected in Wisconsin, built in 1845. The marker and temple were moved in 1950 from the town t...
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Old Military Trail Marker

Date: 1927
Description: Military road marker erected in 1927 by Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution at the foot of the old road opposite Prairie du Chien. The road was built...
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Red Bird Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Red Bird monument, erected on the site of Ft. Winnebago and Red Bird's surrender. There is a cannon on the lawn behind the monument. A road is along th...
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Pauqette Monument

Date: 1925
Description: The Pierre Pauquette monument located at the easterm terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoluti...

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