Mazomanie Bluff is a village owned park adjacent to Lake Marion and Wolf Run Trail. Through a system of trails, park users are guided up a bluff of fractured dolomite […]
Facility Category: Historical Markers
Vermont Creek: Dane County Historical Society Natural History Series
“This once clear tributary to the Wisconsin River now carries tons of soil from croplands on ridges and slopes. Silver maples, willows and box elders grow on the soil deposited […]
Brigham Park: Dane County Historical Society Natural History Series
“You are looking north from the Military Ridge toward Mazomanie, which lies in the Wisconsin River Valley. Beyond the Wisconsin River bluffs, on a clear day, the higher Baraboo Hills […]
Festge Park: Dane County Historical Society Natural History Series
“You are looking across a deep preglacial valley. Once glacial meltwaters drained west to the Wisconsin River, depositing sand and gravel brought south to Middleton by the giant ice sheets. […]
Indian Lake: Dane County Historical Society Natural History Series
“Indian Lake Park lies at the edge of the unglaciated or “driftless” area of southwestern Wisconsin. Here, features of both glaciated and unglaciated land are prominent. The steep slopes of […]
Mazomanie Oak Barrens: Dane County Historical Society Natural History Series
“When the last glacier melted some 10,000 years ago, the Wisconsin River swelled to more than 100 times its present size and carried billions of tons of fine sand and […]
Haney’s Tavern: Dane County Historical Society
“In 1838 at the foot of this bluff Berry Haney, a migrant from Cross Plains, Tennessee, established the Cross Plains Post Office in a log house. Early Cross Plains was […]
Patrons Mercantile Co-op: Dane County Historical Society
“Oldest Cooperative in the Nation. Town of Vermont farmers, beset by a depressed economy in the early 1890’s, organized a company to obtain quality products at fair prices. Amos Thorsrud […]
Blue Mounds Fort: Dane County Historical Society
“The onset of the Black Hawk War in northwestern Illinois in April, 1832 triggered panic in southwestern Wisconsin’s lead mining region, prompting erection of over a dozen stockades. On an […]
John F. Appleby: Dane County Historical Society
“It was here at Mazomanie in the late 1870’s that John F. Appleby perfected the knotter. Still used on binders and balers, the knotter is a mechanical device which binds […]
St. Mary of the Oaks: Dane County Historical Society
On the brow of a hill, one-half mile east overlooking Indian Lake, rests a tiny stone chapel. The structure was built in 1857 by John Endres in fulfillment of a […]
Indian Lake Passage: Dane County Historical Society
“On July 21, 1832, during the Black Hawk War, Sac Indian leader Black Hawk and his band left Pheasant Branch, west of Madison, retreating ahead of the military forces commanded […]
Battle of Wisconsin Heights: Wisconsin Historical Society
“On July 21, 1832, during a persistent rainstorm, the 65-year old Sac Indian leader, Black Hawk, led 60 of his Sac and Fox and Kickapoo warriors in a holding action […]
Historic Mazomanie: Wisconsin Historical Society
“In 1850, the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road Company began building a line to span the lower third of Wisconsin between Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien. Chief Engineer Edward Brodhead […]
Old Halfway Prairie School: Dane County Historical Society
“This building is Dane County’s oldest existing country schoolhouse. Repeated remodelings conceal an original framework of logs. The land was donated for school purposes in 1844 by Mary Fowler, a […]