The Sanford Herald Building

Erected - 1910

This two story building was built in 1910. It served the Sanford Herald, a newspaper that began publication in 1908, as offices and printing room. The architect and builder was W.G. Hammond.

The Sanford Lodge of the Independent Order ...

Capitol Square has long been the heart of the city

The Madison Heritage Series

Even before Madison was founded, people met to exchange money and merchandise not far from this spot. Five hundred Ho-Chunk camped near the square in 1832 to swap furs for trader Oliver Armel’s goods.

People began building businesses ...

Millstones from Emison Mills

The larger millstone is made from French Buhr cut into wedge-shaped pieces and bound together by a heavy metal loop. A “stand” is made of two similar stones, the “upper stone” rotating on the “nether stone” to grind wheat and ...

York Inter-State Fair

Recognized as America's oldest agricultural fair, dating its origin from a charter issued by the Penns in 1765. Discontinued after 1815, the fair has been conducted annually since 1853 by the York County Agricultural Society. The present ground has been ...

The 1914 S.U.M. Great Falls Power Plant

The Great Falls Power Plant has been generating electricity for nearly 100 years. The plant produces electricity from the energy of falling water. When the plant opened in 1914, its primary purpose was to supply electric power to Paterson’s ...

Battle of Mole Lake

This is the home of the Sokoagon Band of the Chippewa tribe. According to tradi­tion handed down from one generation to the next, the first chief of the Band was Getshee Ki-ji-wa-be-she-shi, or the Great Marten.

Each summer the Sokoagon Band ...

Battle of Cool Spring

Battle of

Cool Spring

July 18, 1864

Early & Crook

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Marker is on Castleman Road (County Route 603), on the right when traveling north.

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Sugar Loaf Bluff

"The crown of the majestic Sugar Loaf Bluff is disappearing before the strokes of the utilitarian quarrymen," editorialized the Winona Daily

Republican in 1886. "In a very few years that widely known landmark will be but a homely reminiscence of ...

First Presidential Mansion

No. 1 Cherry St.

Occupied by

George Washington

from April 26 1789

to February 25 1790.

Marker is on Pearl Street and Dover Street.

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Kern River Flour Mills

In 1871 Horatio P. Livermore and William Muehe built the Kern River Flour Mills on the Kern Island Canal. Muehe sold his interest to Fordyce Roper in 1874 and Livermore to James B. Haggin in 1879, who also acquired Roper's ...