Father Gabriel Richard

Priest

Educator-Statesman

Secured funds in 1825 through the United States Congress for the survey of the Great Sauk Trail

now U.S. Highway 112 thus opening this artery of civilization into the west

Marker is on U.S. 12 2 miles east of State Highway 99, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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