Lucas’ 1792 Wind Powered Sawmill

Jonathan Lucas and his Amazing Rice Mills

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The Sawmill at Cape Romain’s Mill Island

In the late 1780’s John Bowman of Peachtree Plantation hired the now famous millwright, Johnathan Lucas, to build a second less publicized mill, the wind~driven ...

Eastlake Park

Peace

Eastlake Park has served the inhabitants of Phoenix since the late 1880's. Originally known as Patton's Park, it was developed by the Phoenix Railway Company to serve as a recreational area for patrons of the city's trolley system. The park ...

St. James Santee Parish Veterans Memorial

1941 ~ 1945

Erected by the citizens of St. James Santee Parish in grateful appreciation of the services rendered our beloved country by her sons and daughters in World War II

Kirkley, D.C.; Lofton, P.S.; Lofton, Harry M.; Lofton, J.A., ...

Jamestown Veterans Monument

For all who proudly serve in our armed forces

Marker is on French Santee Road (U.S. 45), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Historical Badger Park

Badger Park, like our Badger State, took its name from this area where some of the miners, like badgers, “dug-in” for the winter, while others, called “suckers” moved on south. It includes 8½ acres of what was considered valuable land, ...

East Wiota Lutheran Church

Norwegian immigrants formed this congregation in 1844 and began constructing their church in 1847. This is the oldest Norwegian Lutheran church still in use in America.

Marker can be reached from Wisconsin Route 78 1 mile south of County Route N. ...

Isaac De Turk 1843 - 1896

Isaac De Turk came to Santa Rosa from Indiana in 1858. The son of a viticulturist, he was one of the first to appreciate the favorable conditions for growing wine grapes in this area and in 1862 established Belle Mount ...

Badger Mine – Badger Lot Diggings

This site is in the heart of the pioneer lead mining region, origin of Wisconsin’s “Badger” nickname. The Winnebago Indian Peace Treaty signed, pioneer miners flooded this area in the 1827 “Lead Rush”. These hardy pioneers lived in caves dug ...

Primrose Lutheran Church

In the mid-nineteenth century, many newly arrived Norwegian immigrants in southern Wisconsin depended upon the spiritual and practical guidance of itinerant Lutheran ministers to help successfully adapt to the new land. One of the most influential was evangelist Rev. Elling ...

Father Samuel Mazzuchelli

In 1835 Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Dominican missionary, came to the lead region from the Green Bay-Mackinac frontier. One year later he addressed the opening session of the territorial legislature. Soon he was establishing schools and preparing teachers for the children ...