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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Salter marker between Necedah and New Lisbon, marks spot where some Indians killed a Mrs. George Salter on June 13, 1863. Mr. Salter had a log tavern here ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Steve McNamara (left), granddaughter of Nathan Strong, the founder of the city of Berlin, then named Strong's Landing, spoke at the dedication ceremon... |
| Date: | 05 20 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over crowd towards speaker during Women's Auxiliary 5th annual pilgrimage to historic sites in Wisconsin. Over 200 members and guests made th... |
| Date: | 07 19 1955 |
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| Description: | The Nation's First Watershed Project historical marker commemorates the large-scale soil and water conservation project that began in Coon Creek in 1933. S... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane... |
| Date: | 07 23 1967 |
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| Description: | Albert Kratch, president of the Lake Mills-Aztalan Historical Society, in front of the Aztalan State Park historical marker. Kratch helped to organize even... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Historic site marker to commemorate the birthplace of the Grand Army of the Republic, founded by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson on April 6, 1886. |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Judge Chester R. Christensen, Rock County Judge, speaking at the dedication ceremony of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement historical marker. Seated behind h... |
| Date: | 09 16 1962 |
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| Description: | Participants in the dedication ceremony of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical marker in Pepin, Wilder's birthplace, included, from left to right, Miss Ele... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the Governor Louis P. Harvey home marker. Two women are standing behind the sign. A clock is at top right. |
| Date: | 10 28 1961 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 02 1962 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Vida Calkins and Mrs. Caroline Mott, descendants of the founders of the Centralia Mill, standing in front of the historical marker honoring the work o... |
| Date: | 09 06 1926 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of attendees at a ceremony to place a marker on the former site of the French post of Nicolas Perrot. From left to right are Dr. Eben D. Pie... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 17 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 01 1955 |
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| Description: | President of the Miller Brewing Company, Norman R. Klug, unveiled the Watertown Plank Road historical marker along with, to his left, James Fitzpatrick, pr... |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A linear burial mound and historic marker at the University Ridge mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The mound group was eventually... |
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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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