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Unveiling of Eleazer Williams Tablet by the D.A.R.

Date: 10 26 1927
Description: View of a crowd of formally dressed men and women standing around a stone monument with a plaque on it. The edge of what may be a large American flag is vi...
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Charles E. Brown Among Burial Mounds on the Edgewood Campus

Date: 05 05 1939
Description: Charles E. Brown poses near a historic tablet marking one of a row of conical burial mounds on the Park and Pleasure drive on the north shore of Lake Wingr...
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Civil War Shell

Date: 1931
Description: A shell of the Civil War period, recovered from the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and presented to the First Capitol State Park by the GAR...
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Allouez Monument

Date: 1921
Description: The Allouez Monument, located in Menominee Park. A large group of people are gathered around the monument. The monument marks the place where Father Claude...
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Vilas Park Indian Mounds Memorial

Date: 10 07 1914
Description: Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s...
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Umbrella Rock

Date: 1905
Description: A small boy holding binoculars is sitting on the edge of Umbrella Rock, with a river far below. Below him is a plaque commemorating the Battle of Wauhatchi...
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Vicksburg Surrender Monument

Date: 04 1902
Description: Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves.
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Survivors with Peshtigo Fire Historic Marker

Date: 10 07 1951
Description: A group of survivors of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871 are gathered in front of the Peshtigo Fire historical marker. The marker dedication coincided with the 80...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Upper Fox River Historic Marker

Date: 10 07 1957
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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Last Covered Bridge Historic Marker

Date: 05 23 1965
Description: One of the last covered bridges in Wisconsin, located in Cedarburg, received an official state historical marker. The Last Covered Bridge historical marker...
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Jefferson Prairie Historic Marker

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Judge Chester R. Christensen, Rock County Judge, speaking at the dedication ceremony of the Jefferson Prairie Settlement historical marker. Seated behind h...
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Watertown Plank Road Historic Marker

Date: 11 01 1955
Description: Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ...
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First Church of Christ, Scientist Historic Marker

Date: 06 10 1955
Description: A small group is gathered for the dedication and unveiling of the First Church of Christ, Scientist historical marker in Oconto. Raymond Sivesind, supervis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Wisconsin's First Aviator Historic Marker

Date: 08 19 1964
Description: A number of Early Birds of Aviation acquaintances, men who flew solo prior to December 17, 1916, came together to honor A.P. Warner and the historical mark...
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Nation's First Watershed Project Historic Marker

Date: 07 19 1955
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...
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First Forest Patrol Flight

Date: 10 15 1955
Description: Neil LeMany, Chief Forest Ranger at the Forest Protection Headquarters in Tomahawk, C.L. Harrington, superintendent of the Forest and Parks Division of the...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Knaggs Ferry Historic Marker

Date: 06 05 1955
Description: Officials gathered to dedicate the Knaggs Ferry historical marker in Oshkosh. The officials included, from left to right, Edward Hamilton, vice-president o...
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Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill Historic Marker

Date: 06 02 1962
Description: Neil Nash, vice-president of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company, speaking to the crowd at the dedication of the Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill historical mar...
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Centralia Pulp and Paper Mill Historic Marker

Date: 06 02 1962
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...

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