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| Date: | 10 26 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd of formally-dressed men and women standing around the plaque mounted on a a large rock. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Dedication of the Pecatonica Battleground marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdal Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Clarence Lester, Mrs. Arthur (Agnes) Peabody, and the Reverend Edward Potter Sabin, admiring a bronze memorial plaque commemorating the first vestry and fo... |
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Dedication of a drinking fountain at Central High School as a memorial to Pfc. James Hammond, son of Howard and Regina Hammond, 114 North Bassett Street. H... |
| Date: | 05 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Edgewater Hotel dedicated to Madison contractor and civic leader John H. Findorff, builder of the hotel. Dedication is marked with a bronze plaque hanging... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A group of men, women and children gathers as a plaque is unveiled on a brick building. Many of the women are wearing cloche hats and drop waist dresses. T... |
| Date: | 08 1994 |
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| Description: | "When the wall below the Juneau House was redone, a rededication ceremony was held. Village President, Mike Weymier, is at the right." |
| Date: | 06 1993 |
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| Description: | Members of the Threresa American Legion Post 270 dedicated this plaque on Memorial Day. Les Beck, an army veteran, and Lorraine Heinecker, a Gold Star Moth... |
| Date: | 10 07 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards a crowd, with costumed participants dressed as Native Americans, fur traders, and Jacques Marquette, at the dedication of the Marq... |
| Date: | 09 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, mother of the Korean War hero, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., standing in front of the historical marker dedicated to her son. Sh... |
| Date: | 09 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, mother of the Korean War hero, Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., shaking hands with V.L. Fiedler, State Highway Commission district ... |
| Date: | 10 23 1969 |
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| Description: | Deane and Don Oelke, front row, owners of the Denniston House Hotel, standing by the historical marker honoring the history of the Denniston House in Cassv... |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 23 1965 |
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| Description: | One of the last covered bridges in Wisconsin, located in Cedarburg, received an official state historical marker. The Last Covered Bridge historical marker... |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Great grandchildren of Ole Knutson Nattestad, the first Norwegian settler in Wisconsin, Sonja Kay and John Carlton, standing with their parents, Mr. and Mr... |
| Date: | 09 16 1962 |
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| Description: | Participants in the dedication ceremony of the Laura Ingalls Wilder historical marker in Pepin, Wilder's birthplace, included, from left to right, Miss Ele... |
| Date: | 11 01 1955 |
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| Description: | President of the Miller Brewing Company, Norman R. Klug, unveiled the Watertown Plank Road historical marker along with, to his left, James Fitzpatrick, pr... |
| Date: | 11 01 1955 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1964 |
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| Description: | The newly crowned beauty queens and attendants from St. Croix Falls and neighboring Taylors Falls stand with Willis Erickson (right), president of the Polk... |
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