The Name “Wisconsin”

In 1673, thirty-nine years after Jean Nicolet visited the Green Bay area, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet set out from New France to explore the Mississippi River. They traveled from the Straits of Mackinac between lakes Huron and Michigan ...

First Japanese on the North American Continent

In October 1832, the Japanese cargo ship Hojun Maru set sail from near Nagoya bound for Edo (present day Tokyo). Disabled in a storm off Enshu Nada, the Hojun Maru drifted for fourteen months before running aground on the coast ...

The Mauretta B. Thomas Pinedale Memorial Bridge

In recognition of her unselfish participation and example in community beautification. Serving on the town bicentennial committee, she proposed the covered bridge and the planting of pine trees along the lane north to the highway as being worth while community ...

The Convention Army

In 1778 the Continental Congress moved 4,916 British and German troops captured at Saratoga, south from Boston along today's Route 513, crossing the Delaware at Sherrard's Ferry (Frenchtown). Many escaped along the way but 3,600 reached Virginia, to be held ...

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church

Completed in 1912, the Church of The Assumption is an example of the Mission Revival style of architecture. The third church built for Assumption Parish, it replaced the second church built on this site in 1884, which burned down in ...

The Marsh Turn

Historic Race Circuits of Elkhart Lake

The only turn used in all three road - racing years. Named for its proximity to the Sheboygan County Marsh.

Marker donated by: Jim Dentici and Carl Raclin in honor of automobile racing in God's Country.

Historic ...

The Black Regiment

Battle of Rhode Island

Bloody Run Brook, First Black Militia,

R. Island Regt.

August 29, 1778.

In honor of

the first Black slaves

and freemen who fought in

the Battle of Rhode Island

as members of the

First Rhode Island Regiment

The Black Regiment

Marker is at the intersection of West ...

The XIII Winter Olympic Games

Here on February 13, 1980

The XIII Winter Olympic Games

were opened by

Vice President of the United States Walter F. Mondale and here the sacred Olympic Flame was brought from Olympia, Greece to shed its light for twelve days on the ...

The Military Road

The Military Road, built in 1835, became the first highway to cross the state. Congress appropriated $5,000 to connect the St. Lawrence and Mississippi River basins.

The troops at Fort Crawford constructed the road from Prairie du Chien to Portage; those ...

The Birmingham Public Library / The Linn - Henley Research Libra

Birmingham’s first library was organized in 1886 and in 1891 became a subscription library for the general public. In 1908 the Birmingham Public Library Association established a free public library, and the City created an independent Library Board in 1913. ...