Site of the Mason Shoe Factory

Chippewa Falls was born with the logging era and with it came support industries such as shoe factories. One of the most important tools for the loggers was strong boots. In 1869, Colliche Vinette was the first shoemaker to come ...

Italians at the Yuma Test Branch

During World War II, the Yuma proving ground of the United States Army Corps of Engineers was known as the Yuma Test Branch, which was used as a floating-bridge test facility. By 1944, more allied troops support was needed to ...

50th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Normandy

1944 - 1994

This plaque is placed here to commemorate

the 50th anniversary of the Allied Invasion

of Normandy on D Day, 6th June 1944.

It is dedicated to the soldiers of the

First Hussars, to those who took part in the

assault, to those who ...

Fighting Communism - Korea and the Cold War

We Answered the Call

June 25, 1950, Communist North Korea invades South Korea and the Korean War begins. The United Nations asks member nations to aid South Korea. President Truman sends U.S. air and naval forces to South Korean defense. Regular ...

Containing Communism - The Berlin and Cuban Crises and Vietnam

We Answered the Call

President Harry S. Truman established a policy of containing Communism that was followed by succeeding presidents until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Beatrice's residents served in Germany, protected the U.S. borders, and fought in ...

The Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge

The City of Chippewa Falls was organized around two moving bodies of water, the Chippewa River and its tributary Duncan Creek. Bridges soon became necessary with rapid expansion of the transportation system in the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

The Charles Erza Daniel Memorial Chapel

Dedicated in 1996

to the Glory of God and in Loving Tribute to

Charles E. Daniel, 1895-1964

This chapel was provided by his wife,

Homozel Mickel Daniel, 1903-1992

Her benefactions tough the lives of all who teach, learn, and worship at this university.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The African ~ American Experience

Marker Front:

African~Americans played a very significant role in the early history of Courtland. Most came as slaves from the older southern states to help clear the land, to plant crops of cotton and corn, and to serve as household domestics. ...

Office of the U. S. Army Depot Quartermaster

This adobe building was constructed in 1872 as an office for the Fort Yuma Quartermaster Depot. It replaced a room in a corner of the depot storehouses where, according to Captain J. G. C. Lee, Quartermaster, ". . .the noise ...

The Americans Return

In late March 1781, Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene made one of the most important decisions of the Revolutionary War. Rather than pursue Lord Cornwallis’s British force toward Wilmington, North Carolina, Greene resolved to lead the American army back to South ...