Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group

the

Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group

in

Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin

is listed in the

National Register

of

Historic Places

Marker is on Lake Mendota Drive 0.4 miles east of Merrill Springs Road, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Lincoln and Blackhawk

Abraham Lincoln and his men were among the 1,500 or so volunteers who had poured into Beardstown for basic military drills. These men had answered Gen. John Reynolds' call to drive Black Hawk and his people out of Illinois. The ...

National Historic Landmark-Central City/Black Hawk HistoricDist.

The Central City/ Black Hawk NHL is at the heart of one of the richest mining areas of the Rocky Mountain West. It was the discovery of gold here, in 1859, which triggered the great Pike's Peak gold rush.

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Black Hawk at Turtle Village / The U.S. Military at Turtle Villa

Black Hawk at Turtle Village

Turtle Village, a large and important Ho-Chuck (Winnebago) Indian village, once stood on the east side of the Rock River near its confluence with Turtle Creek. During the Black Hawk War of 1832, the Ho-Chunk ...

Black Hawk

Lake Monona: Change

Madison changed with great speed in the 1830s: from Ho-Chunk home to war zone to capital city. Powerful forces were gathering against the Ho-Chunks. To gain more land, southwest Wisconsin lead miners pressured the U.S. government to remove ...

Black Hawk War

Battle Bluff · Battle Hollow · Battle Island

Battle Bluff ? Elv 1139ft

Battle Hollow ?

Severe fighting 1 mile east between Gen. Henry's 300 Ill. militia and 300 Sac Indians Aug. 2 1832.

? Battle Island

Hard fighting opposite. 1200 white soldiers ...

Black Hawk (1767-1838)

Black Sparrow Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak) led the Sauk Nation in defense of land taken from them in the 1830s. Displaced from three Midwestern locations, the Sauk resisted another federal relocation. Led by Black Hawk, the Sauk fought throughout the summer of ...

Black Hawk's Surrender

On August 2, 1832, the Black Hawk War effectively ended when the U.S. Military massacred many followers of Sauk Indian leader Black Hawk at the Battle of Bad Axe, located about 35 miles north of here. Black Hawk, known as ...

Black Hawk War

In the spring of 1831, the Sauk Indians led by Chief Keokuk left their ancestral home near the mouth of the Rock River and moved across the Mississippi, to fulfill the terms of a treaty signed in 1804.

On April ...

The Black Hawk War / Black Hawk's Grove

The Black Hawk War

In April 1832, unhappy about their forced relocation to Iowa and misadvised by tribal chiefs, about 1,000 Sac, Fox and Kickapoo men, women and children followed Sac war leader Black Hawk back to their Illinois home where ...