National Historic Landmark - Fireboat Duwamish

An excellent example of a typical fireboat found in any major American port city through much of the 20th century. While earlier tugboats modified for fireboat use and employed as auxiliary fireboats may exist, DUWAMISH (1909) is the second oldest ...

National Historic Landmark - Arthur Foss (tug boat)

Built in 1889, she is the only known wooden-hulled 19th-century tugboat left afloat and in operating condition in the United States. FOSS towed lumber and grain-laden square-rigged ships across the treacherous Columbia River, and hence, was a key participant in ...

National Historic Landmark-University of Wisconsin Science Hall

Science Hall is associated with Charles R. Van Hise (1857-1918), who was the first geologist in the Nation to apply microscopic lithology to the extensive study of crystalline rocks, and to use those results in the formulation of geological principles. ...

National Historic Landmark - University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn

Located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, an internationally recognized leader in agricultural research, this barn complex was the site of the "single grain" experiment that called into question the prevailing nineteenth century "chemical" model of nutrition. This ...

National Historic Landmark-Univ. of Wisconsin Armory & Gynmasium

This was the site of the 1904 Wisconsin Republican Convention, a seminal event in the history of the Progressive Movement. At this convention, Robert M. La Follette's Progressives defeated the Stalwarts for control of the Wisconsin Republican Party. Widespread favorable ...

National Historic Landmark - Soldiers Home Reef

This rock mound in the Menomonee River Valley near Milwaukee was discovered by Increase A. Lapham, Wisconsin's first scientist, in the 1830s. In 1862, James Hall was the first to recognize and interpret this and several other earby mounds as ...

National Historic Landmark-Second Ft. Crawford Military Hospital

The only remaining building of the fort which was the center of Federal authority in the Old Northwest, this structure is a reconstruction of the post hospital originally built c. 1835.

Archeological remains of the first Fort Crawford were found in ...

National Historic Landmark - Schoonmaker Reef

This Landmark is a 425-million-year-old fossil reef, one of the first recognized as such in the United States in 1862. Professional geologists used data collected from the reef to formulate theories fundamental in the study of geology.

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National Historic Landmark - University of Wisconsin, North Hall

Constructed in 1851, this is the first structure built on the campus of the State university which pioneered in extension work, particularly in agricultural programs, and in the involvement of scholars in legislative and regulatory affairs on a non-partisan basis. ...

National Historic Landmark - Robert M. La Follette home

From 1905 until his death, this was the residence of Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925). La Follette served in the House of Representatives (1885-91), but did not emerge as a major force in governmental reform until his service as Governor ...