Putnam Cottage

Putnam Cottage

From Here George. Putnam

Escaped the British

By His Famous Ride

Down "Put's Hill"

Marker is at the intersection of East Putnam Avenue (U.S. 1) and Park Place, on the left when traveling north on East Putnam Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Troop Encampment

According to local tradition, on the night of July 29, 1832, during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson’s troops camped at this location. The next day, the troops proceeded up the West Branch of the Pine River, only to abandon ...

Clara Barton’s Birthplace

1630 – 1930

One mile westward Clara Barton, "the angel of the battlefield," was born in 1821. A volunteer nurse in the Civil War, she served the International Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian War, founded the American Red Cross and served ...

Henry Davis Pearce

(June 4, 1845 - December 8, 1911)

Born in Illinois. Came to Texas 1856. Joined Confederate Army in New Orleans, 1861; fought in siege of Vicksburg (1863), in Battle of Mansfield (1864), and at Pleasant Hill, LA., where he was captured. ...

Amelia Springs

Two Days of Action

Union cavalry under Gen. Henry E. Davies, Jr. left Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s column near Jetersville on April 5, 1865, on a reconnaissance mission against the Army of Northern Virginia. Davies swept by here, rode through Paineville, ...

Pursued Beyond the Battlefield

After the battle, Cornwallis’s exhausted infantry held the field while Tarleton and his cavalry chased the Americans, capturing hundreds and killing untold others. Loyalists living north of Camden rounded up more patriot prisoners, turning them over to the British. Tarleton’s ...

Amelia Springs

Two Days of Action

Union cavalry under Gen. Henry E. Davies, Jr. left Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s column near Jetersville on April 5, 1865, on a reconnaissance mission against the Army of Northern Virginia. Davies swept by here, rode through Paineville, ...

Templeton Carriage Works

Historic Templeton

The Templeton Carriage Works Building was originally built

in 1898 as a photography studio and residence for A.W. Petterson, an early Templeton photographer who recorded much of the local early days.

In 1905 it was moved from its original location ...

Museum Property / Horstman House

Museum Property

Formerly the site of a plumbing shop and lumber yard, the museum property was donated to the Templeton Historical Museum Society by Al and Carla Willholt in 1988

Horstman House

Built circa 1920 at the corner of Sixth and Main streets, ...

History of Flagpole

Grandad Bluff Flag

In February 1941, during World War II, the Reserve Officers Association organized the population of the La Crosse area to erect a flagpole high atop Grandad Bluff - 600 feet above the city. Children in all public and ...