Badger Mine – Badger Lot Diggings

This site is in the heart of the pioneer lead mining region, origin of Wisconsin’s “Badger” nickname. The Winnebago Indian Peace Treaty signed, pioneer miners flooded this area in the 1827 “Lead Rush”. These hardy pioneers lived in caves dug ...

Primrose Lutheran Church

In the mid-nineteenth century, many newly arrived Norwegian immigrants in southern Wisconsin depended upon the spiritual and practical guidance of itinerant Lutheran ministers to help successfully adapt to the new land. One of the most influential was evangelist Rev. Elling ...

1998 Wisconsin Assembly

On January 14, 1998, the Wisconsin Assembly met at the First Capitol in Belmont in honor of the Sesquicentennial of Statehood. The Territorial Legislature held its first session here in 1836, and convened for three more sessions in what is ...

Father Samuel Mazzuchelli

In 1835 Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Dominican missionary, came to the lead region from the Green Bay-Mackinac frontier. One year later he addressed the opening session of the territorial legislature. Soon he was establishing schools and preparing teachers for the children ...

Wisconsin Lead Region

Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties were once the center of a lead-mining boom. Indians had sold lead to early traders, but there were few white miners here in 1820. Mining brought in a large part of the 37,000 population credited ...

“On the Shoulders of Giants”

This memorial garden was commissioned the 14th of April, 1998

and is dedicated to our African American ancestors who

have constructed, educated, served and contributed to

the University of Maryland. African Americans – both enslaved

and free – were a critical ...

Edwardsville

Home of Five Illinois Governors

Edward Coles 1822-1826

Ninian Edwards 1826-1830

John Reynolds 1830-1834

Thomas Ford 1842-1846

Charles S. Deneen 1905-1913

Marker is at the intersection of St Louis Street and Randle Street, on the left when traveling east on St Louis Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Site of Redan Battery

Near this spot Lieut-Col. John MacDonnell Attorney General of Upper Canada was mortally wounded 13th October 1812.

Marker can be reached from Niagara Parkway 0.4 kilometers east of York Street (Local Route 81), on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Gainesville's Railroads / Past Railroads of Gainesville

Gainesville's Railroads

The coming of the Florida Railroad opened up the interior of Florida for both settlement and trading and helped establish Gainesville. On February 1, 1859 the Florida Railroad entered town and connected Fernandina Beach with Cedar Key by ...

Thomas L. Clingman

United States Senator, Confederate General, born at Huntsville, 9 mi. east, 1812. Clingman's Dome, 160 miles west, is named for him.

Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 601 and Courtney-Huntsville Road, on the right when traveling south on U.S. 601. ...