Pinery Road - The Legend

Iron County Heritage Area

"An old Indian legend says that Bearskull Lake is sacred. Any white man who had anything to do with the lake or its vicinity will have everlasting ill fortune."

In 1904, a tornado ripped through this ...

Roddis Line – Nelson Camp 1 (1925-1930)

Iron County Heritage Area

This camp was Carl Nelson’s headquarters camp. From this camp, he directed the woods operations and sent rail cars of timber south to the main line at Camp 8.

While all of the buildings are gone, artifacts found ...

Roddis Line – Life in Camp

Iron County Heritage Area

The railroad pushed into northern Wisconsin in the 1870s, opening the deep forests for harvest. Now hardwoods such as maple, oak, spruce, cedar, balsam, birch and aspen could be cut.

More logs could be shipped by rail than ...

Roddis Line - Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company

Iron County Heritage Area

William Henry Roddis realized that a fortune could be made in the woods.

In 1903, he purchased a parcel of land to build a mill in Park Falls. Roddis bought 35,000 acres of timber land in Iron and ...

Papal Visits to New York City

Pope Paul VI * Pope John Paul II * Pope Benedict XVI

Panel 1:

His Holiness, Pope Paul VI

on his arrival

for the first Papal visit

to America

came to this Cathedral

to adore

the Blessed Sacrament

4 October ...

Southern Exploring Company – 1849

Parley P. Pratt

The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming ...

Southern Exploring Company - 1849

Parley P. Pratt

The confluence of Ash and LaVerkin Creeks with the Virgin River is important in the history of this region. Footsteps long forgotten have passed through this region. Some have been remembered but most have faded with time. Roaming ...

Look-out Point

Hurricane Valley Historic Rock Fort and Corral

With the settlement of Toquerville in 1858 by the first six families and others soon to join them, they soon realized that the pressures on the available irrigated farmland could not support the increasing ...

Mt Jackson General Hospital

Shenandoah at War

In September 1861, the Confederate Medical Department built a large general hospital on this site because Mt. Jackson was the western terminus of the Manassas Gap Railroad, which provided access to northern Virginia battlefields. Dr. Andrew Russell Meem, ...

Yates Post No. 88 W.R.C.

In memory of

Womans Relief Corps

Auxiliary of Yates Post

No. 88

Marker is on Jefferson Avenue west of 3rd Street (U.S. 45), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org