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Indian Trail Marker
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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 house in the town of Plymouth was built near this spot in 1845, and the first white child of Plymouth was born there. This marker erected by the Plymouth Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, June 14, 1924.
1924
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