Homestead of J. Gledhill

1871 - 1920

Twelve Mile Post Office

1874 - 1894

Cawker City

Smith Center

Trail

1871

Marker is on Wisconsin Avenue (U.S. 24) near Lake Drive, on the right when traveling east.

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Oxmoor Iron Furnaces

1863 - 1928

First blast furnace in Jefferson County erected near this site (1863) by Red Mountain Coal and Iron Co. Destroyed (1865) by Federal troops: rebuilt (1873) and second furnace added. Successful experimental run made in Furnace No. 2 (1876) ...

Home of Moses Laird

Guide to

General George Washington

before the Battle of Monmouth

and host to the General

on the night of June 29, 1778

the days following the battle

Placed by

Francis Hopkinson Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

1970

Marker is at the intersection of N Main Street (County Route 527) ...

Battery I, First Regiment New York Light Artillery

2nd Division

(Front):Battery I, First Regiment N.Y. Light

Artillery

Capt. M. Wiedrich, Commanding

2nd. Division 11th. Corps,

July 1st. 2nd. & 3rd. 1863.

(Back):Casualties,

3 killed, 10 wounded.

Marker is on Baltimore Pike (State Highway 97), on the right when traveling north.

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Columbus - A Town Transformed

The view from these 180-foot bluffs has changed significantly in the last several centuries. The Mississippi River has shifted course. Portions of the bluff has crumbled into the river. The bustling town of Columbus, which once lay just beneath these ...

Penokee Iron Range Trail – Gile Falls

Iron County Heritage Area

Mining Upside Down

The large tailing piles across the river from Gile Falls are waste rock left from its mining at the Montreal Mine #5 Shaft.

The Montreal Mine’s vertical shaft extended to the depth of nearly one mile ...

Worthington Farm

Late 18th century home of John Worthington. Rear wing added 1820.

Marker is on Bloomsbury Road (County Route 579), on the right when traveling west.

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A River View of History

The Mississippi River looms large in our history. Early on, it marked the nation's westernmost boundary. As the country expanded, the river became the eastern border of the western frontier. "The Mighty Mississippi" linked far-flung places in trade and traffic ...

Roddis Line – Lake of the Falls

Iron County Heritage Area

The felling of Iron County’s great stands of timber began in the late 1870’s. The white pine was the first to be cut. Down the Turtle River and over Lake of the Falls, buoyant pine logs were ...

Flambeau Trail – Two Ways to Go

Iron County Heritage Area

In days of yesteryear, traveling south on the Flambeau Trail, you arrived at Big Turtle Lake (now Echo Lake) and Little Turtle Lake (now called either Grand Portage Lake or Tank Lake) to what is now Mercer. ...