On the night of July 20th, during the Black Hawk War of 1832, Sac Indian leader Black Hawk and his followers camped near this location. Desperate for food and frightened by the approaching military, the Indians fled northwest towards the Wisconsin River the next morning.

Marker is on Pheasant Branch Road 0.4 miles north of Whittlesey Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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