Photograph
Marker at Black Hawk Park
| Pecatonica battlefield marker, Black Hawk Park (Lafayette County). The marker reads: "At this place on June 16,1832 between Wisconsin pioneers under Colonel Henry Dodge and a band of Black Hawk Sacs was fought the Battle of Pecatonica. "The annals of Indian warfare no parallel to this battle." Of the twenty-one volunteer soldiers engaged three were mortally and one severely wounded. The seventeen Indians were slain. Thus was our land made safe for settlement.: Erected by Rhoda Hinsdale Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of Wiota, 1922. |
| Image ID: | 34851 |
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| Creation Date: | 1925 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | Woodford |
| County: | Lafayette |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Place File* |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PF Woodford.2b |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 3 inches |
| Plaques, plaquettes |
| Cities and towns |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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