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Elks Club

Packers Heritage Trail

The Elks Club was the site of an annual sports banquet that honored many of the biggest names in Packer history from the Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi eras.

The first was billed as the "Lombardi Testimonial Banquet" and ...

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Benjamin W. Barnes

“Pappy”

“Barnes Spring” established as La Portes water supply 1858. For his efforts our citizens will forever by indebted.

Marker can be reached from Church Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Black Pioneers Cemetery

Circa 1830 – 1900

333 marked graves in 2001

Jim Scott 1871

Hett Powell 1890

Marker is on Covered Bridge Road SW ¼ mile south of Euharlee Road SW, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Curly Lambeau's Office Northern Building

Packers Heritage Trail

Curly Lambeau occupied an office in the Northern Building for nearly 20 years while he was coaching the Packers, but visitors might have been taken aback by the sign on his door. It read: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance ...

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St. Willebrord Catholic Church

Packers Heritage Trail

St. Willebrord Catholic Church was where Vince Lombardi faithfully attended Mass during his 10 years in Green Bay. A devout Catholic, Lombardi would invariably arrive minutes before 8 a.m. on weekdays, park in the back lot and enter ...

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Green Bay Press-Gazette

Packers Heritage Trail

The Packers might have been born in the old Press-Gazette building five years before this one was completed, but the close ties between the team and the newspaper carried on here. Had it not been for the Press-Gazette, ...

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Burning of British Taxed Tea

Near this spot the men and women of Providence showed their resistance to the unfair taxation by burning British Taxed tea in the night March 2nd 1775

Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (U.S. 44) and College Street, ...

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Downtown Green Bay

Packers Heritage Trail

The Packers were founded in downtown Green Bay in 1919 and have had a presence here ever since.

In 1921, their inaugural season in what is now the NFL, they held their first practice at the Old Courthouse Grounds ...

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Bellin Building

Packers Heritage Trail

Gerald Clifford and Dr. W. W. Kelly, two members of the "Hungry Five," a group of local men critical to the survival of the Packers over their first three decades, had offices here. Kelly was a physician with ...

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Brown County Courthouse

Packers Heritage Trail

The imposing Brown County Courthouse was where the first stockholders meeting of the newly formed non-profit Green Bay Football Corporation was held on Sept. 17, 1923. It was the first of many important Packer meetings held here over ...

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