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Historic Site Marker

Date: 1926
Description: Historic site marker commemorating the first permanent home in Baraboo. The inscription reads, "On this site in 1840, the first permanent home in Baraboo ...
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Albion Academy Historic Marker

Date: 07 17 1960
Description: Participants at the dedication of the Albion Academy historical marker, from left to right, include, Judge Sverre Roang, program chairman, Dr. Leslie H. Fi...
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First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Historical Marker near Trout Lake. The marker recognizes the first ever forest patrol flight.

The marker text reads:

"FIRST FOREST PATROL FLI...

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Camp Randall Historic Marker

Date: 10 28 1961
Description: The dedication ceremony of the Camp Randall historical marker was part of the halftime entertainment of the Wisconsin versus Ohio State football game. Gove...
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Lake Pepin Marker

Date: 1940
Description: A marker at Lake Pepin made by the sixth grade of Whitehall Memorial School as part of their Junior Historian activities. The Junior Historians are a grade...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Judge Chester R. Christensen, Rock County Judge, speaking at the dedication ceremony of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement historical marker. Seated behind h...
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Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill Historic Marker

Date: 06 02 1962
Description: Neil Nash, vice-president of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, speaking to the crowd at the dedication of the Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill historical mar...
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Watertown Plank Road Historic Marker

Date: 11 01 1955
Description: Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ...
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Dunbar Oak Marker

Date: 1982
Description: A historical marker mounted on a metal post tells the story of Col. Richard Dunbar discovering, in 1866, the healing properties of water from a nearby spri...
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Keystone House Historical Marker

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Description: This is number four in Stanley Hanks' collection of four prints of the Keystone House in Shorewood. This is the historical marker erected in 1972 by the Da...
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Dedication of Lake Ripley Ole Evinrude Historical Marker

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Arthur Melster, President of Cambridge Foundation; K.K. Amundson. M.D. of Cambridge; and W.T. Webb of Evinrude Motors, look at the Lake Ripley Ole Evinrude...
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Milwaukee-Downer College Historic Marker

Date: 06 15 1965
Description: Leslie Fishel, Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, speaking from the stage at the dedication and unveiling of the Milwaukee-Downer Colle...
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Big Foot Village Marker

Date: 1935
Description: Close-up view of the Big Foot village marker erected by the Geneva Lake Historical Society. The plaque reads: "A village of Potawatomi Indians occupied the...
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Marquette Historic Marker

Date: 06 30 1957
Description: View across lawn towards a crowd, with costumed participants dressed as Native Americans, fur traders, and Jacques Marquette, at the dedication of the Marq...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Great grandchildren of Ole Knutson Nattestad, the first Norwegian settler in Wisconsin, Sonja Kay and John Carlton, standing with their parents, Mr. and Mr...
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Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. Historic Marker

Date: 09 05 1957
Description: Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, mother of the Korean War hero, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., shaking hands with V.L. Fiedler, State Highway Commission district ...
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Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
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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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First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Neil LeMany, Chief Forest Ranger at the Forest Protection Headquarters in Tomahawk, C.L. Harrington, superintendent of the Forest and Parks Division of the...

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