Wisconsin River Headwaters

About two miles east of here, the Wisconsin River has its source in Lac Vieux Desert. Several spellings and meanings were given to the name of the stream in early days. The Algonquian "Wees-konsan" means "the gathering of the waters." ...

William Moore Tidewater Musician

William "Bill" Moore was born in Georgia in 1893. Nearby stood his home and barbershop. Paramount recorded Moore in Chicago in 1928 and released eight songs, some of the earliest by an African American folk performer from Virginia. They are ...

Historic Lake Pepin: Birthplace of Waterskiing

"I decided that if you could ski on snow, you could ski on water." In 1922, after first trying barrel staves, then snow skis, eighteen year old Ralph W. Samuelson succeeded in waterskiing on eight foot long pine boards, steamed ...

Harnessing Water Power

Downstream from where the current Gervais Street

Bridge now stands, Dr. Frederick W. Green owned and operated a lumberyard, and ran a grist mill to grind flour and corn. A native of New England, Green came South in the 1830s. Water ...

Waterfall Makers

Here the Yellowstone River plunges 308 feet over the Lower Falls. Hot springs have weakened the rock jut downstream, where you might see several geysers spouting into the river. As falling water pounds the thermally softened rock, it continues to ...

Horse Watering Trough

Located at the center of

Laffayette & Orange Avenue in the

Late 1800’s. Built at the

Hillburn Granite Quarry, by

James Rice Sr., father of

James Rice Mayor of Suffern for

16 years.

Donated by:

The Mayor and the Zeck Family

Suffern Chamber Restoration Program

Marker is at the intersection ...

Florence's Early Water Tower 1890

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this tower of native stone was completed in 1890 as the foundation for a wrought- iron tank with a capacity of 280,000 gallons of water. It is 70 feet high and is ...

The Old Waterworks

The development and evolution of Harrisburg's early public works infrastructure is captured through the unique Riverfront Park setting of the Old Waterworks, the original stone portion of which was constructed in 1841. At that time water was pumped by this ...

"the water...contains a half...Glass of ooze"

"The water we drink or the Common water of the missourie at this time, contains a half a Comm Wine Glass of ooze or mud to every pint-"

William Clark

June 21, 1804

The Missouri River of Lewis and ...

New Haven Water Company

The fountain around the Memorial Flagpole commemorates 150 years of service by the New Haven Water Company founded by Eli Whitney. The first water was brought to the Green from Lake Whitney on January 1, 1862 in order to provide ...