Town of Vernon

Prior to settlement the Town of Vernon was composed of sugar maple & white oak forests, savanna & marsh from which the Potawatomi derived food, medicine, shelter, tools & fibers.

On Nov. 1, 1836 Prucius Putnam, John Dodge & brothers Curtis ...

Finnish Workers Hall

The Finnish people were one of the first ethnic groups to arrive in this area in the late 1890's and early 1900's.

They built this building on this site in 1909. It was used for stage plays, dances and other social ...

Fish Dam Battle Ground

Rotary International

To mark

Fish Dam Battle Ground

Nov. 8, 1780

between

Gen. Sumter, American

Maj. Wemyss, British

Won by Americans

Marker is on State Highway 215 ½ mile west of Store Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy ...

Fort Rosalie

On bluff to south stood Ft. Rosalie, established by the French in 1716. Became nucleus of settlements from which the Mississippi Territory was founded. Near this marker stood the French warehouse that was a center of bloodshed during the Natchez ...

Battle of Fishdam Ford

On the east side of Broad River by an old Indian fish dam, General Thomas Sumter's camp was attacked before dawn on November 9, 1780 by the British 63rd Regiment and a detachment of the Legion, led by Major James ...

Jefferson Davis

President Davis, fleeing

southward after Lee’s

surrender, with members

of his cabinet spent the

night of Apr. 16, 1865,

in a pine grove nearby.

Marker is on Caldcleugh Road, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Clifton Baptist Church / First Baptist Church

Clifton Baptist Church

This church, originally called Clifton Baptist Church, was founded in 1881 with ten charter members and Rev. T.J. Taylor as its organizing minister. Rev. W.T. Tate was its first permanent minister. Admitted into the Broad River Association later ...

Maney Ridge Prehistoric Effigy Mounds

On the ridge above this road and the Fox River lies a series of prehistoric earthworks. They represent visible remnants of both social and ritual behavior of one of Wisconsin’s unique prehistoric cultures, the Effigy Mound Indians.

The conical mounds ...

Fort Cass

Historical Site

Defenses of Washington

1861-1865

Fort Cass

During the Civil War, the Union built a series of forts to defend Washington, D.C. By 1865 there were 33 earthen fortifications in the Arlington Line. Fort Cass (1861) was part of this defensive strategy. Built ...

Village of Big Bend

In 1837, in anticipation of the “Great Wisconsin Land Sale” of 1839, Aaron and Elvira Putnam settled near a “Big Bend” in the Fox River. Potawatomi Indians camped on the river, but there were no white settlers at what was ...