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Indian Trail Marker, Plymouth, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: An Indian trail marker erected "in honor of our pioneers". This trail later became the Plank Road between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The first h...
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Indian Trail Marker

Date: 1924
Description: An Indian trail marker erected "in honor of our pioneers". The trail later became the Plank Road between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The first ho...
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Mitchell-Rountree House

Date: 1945
Description: A view of the Mitchell-Rountree house. Built in 1837 for the Rev. Samueal Mitchell under the direction of his daughter's husband, Major John H. roundtree, ...
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Marker, Perrot State Park

Date: 1926
Description: A marker commemorating the French fort erected by Rene Godefrey, Sieur de Linctot, which existed on this site between 1731-1736. It is thought that the sit...
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Marker, Perrot State Park

Date: 1926
Description: A marker commemorating the French fort erected by Rene Godefrey, Sieur de Linctot, which existed on this site between 1731-1736. It is thought that the sit...
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Marker, Perrot State Park

Date: 1951
Description: A marker commemorating the French fort erected by Rene Godefrey, Sieur de Linctot, which exisited on this site between 1731-1736. It is thought that the si...
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Marker, Oshaukuta

Date: 1940
Description: A marker at the site of the former village of Oshaukuta on Highway 51, north of Portage. The marker states: "This tablet marks the site where the village o...
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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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Knaggs Ferry Marker

Date: 1955
Description: Knaggs Ferry marker. Dedicated to James Knaggs who operated a ferry in Oshkosh for nineteen years.
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Hydroelectric Central Station

Date: 1954
Description: Exterior view of a reproduction of the world's first hydroelectric central station. It is located near the site of the original, which began operation on S...
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Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
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Prairie du Chien Beards

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Praire du Chien residents, J. Alvin Dru'yor, secretary of the Villa Louis committee, and Harry Speck, past president, are members of the whisker club and a...
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Madeline Island Historical Museum

Date: 1958
Description: The Madeline Island Historical Museum behind a "pencil" designed fence.
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John Doris House

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: Exterior view from across an intersection of the John Doris house, 603-605 West Main Street at South Bedford Street. The home was once a hotel, now home to...
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Louis Dousman, great grandson of Hercules Louis Dousman who built the home, is seated on a bench on the lawn with his wife.
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Strolling in the garden, Gwendolyn Druyfor and Shirley Adams, are dressed in costumes and carrying a parasol.
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Eudora Kolowinski, from Prairie du Chien, Miss Crawford County, and Bevery Johnston, Ferryville, Miss Villa Louis, in formal dress, stand in front of the p...
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Villa Louis Tea

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: Mrs. W.H. Guest, Madison, dressed in costume, uses the petal strewn pool for a mirror.
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Polperro House

Date: 1946
Description: Pencil drawing (graphite and ink?) of Polperro House, at the Pendarvis State Historical Site in Mineral Point. Features a side gable entrance and a log fra...
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Pendarvis and Trelawny Houses at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1946
Description: Pencil drawing of the Pendarvis and Trelawny Houses. Stone building with six over six windows on two levels, and three entrances. A stone wall runs along t...

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