Near County Route Ggg, 0.1 miles south of County Route SS.
This scientific area preserved in natural condition for future generations is symbolic of the spirit of Haskell Noyes of Milwaukee (1886-1948) - one of Wisconsin's foremost conservationists. Leader of citizen action for outdoor programs featuring . . . — — Map (db m143242) HM
Near Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive (County Route S).
St. Matthias Mission
Built in 1861
Has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
By the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m73834) HM
Near County Highway TC, 2.2 miles east of State Highway 49, on the left when traveling east.
The Raube Road Site is one of Wisconsin's few remaining intact Old Military Road segments from the state's territorial period. Located on farmland purchased by Albert and Martha Raube in 1911, this 123-foot-long Military Road segment was part of the . . . — — Map (db m36007) HM
Near West Rolling Meadows Drive, 0.1 miles east of South Military Road.
This site marks the Fond du Lac County Farm Cemetery. The Farm, no longer extant, was founded in 1856 to assist indigent and mentally ill county residents. The cemetery, about 65' x 295' in size, was also known as the Courthouse Burial Grounds. . . . — — Map (db m73387) HM
Near West Rolling Meadows Drive, 0.1 miles east of South Military Road.
Fond du Lac County
Rolling Meadows
Golf Course
Dedicated to All
War Veterans of
Fond du Lac County
This
Bicentennial Year
1976
A Time Capsule
Containing Historical
Information Sealed
Herein – To Be
Opened . . . — — Map (db m47067) HM
On North Main Street, 0.3 miles north of Scott Street, on the left when traveling north.
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial
Drive
Lest We Forget
Placed by
Colonel C. K. Pier Circle
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
1932 — — Map (db m61247) HM
Near County Road K, 0.7 miles south of U.S. 151, on the left when traveling south.
The home of James Duane Doty, oldest residence in Fond du Lac County, was built in 1839. Doty served as Federal Judge, Congressman, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He was Governor of Utah when he died. . . . — — Map (db m38487) HM
On North Main Street north of Harbor View Drive, on the right when traveling north.
This engine was built in 1911 by the American Locomotive Company of New York. It was one of four engines purchased by the Wisconsin Central in May, 1911. It was built light for passenger service. It weighs almost 100 tons. It was fired by a . . . — — Map (db m77548) HM
On Old Pioneer Road north of East Pioneer Road, on the left when traveling north.
On March 1, 1838, Fanna Pier, the first white woman to live in Fond du Lac County, died at the age of 30 after a short illness. Her death was the first of a white person in the county. This plot of high ground was selected for the burial two days . . . — — Map (db m70250) HM
On Old Pioneer Road north of East Pioneer Road, on the left when traveling north.
(engraving) First Fond du Lac Home
Fanna Pier 1838
Daughter of Nathan and Betsey Kendell, wife of Colwert Pier, died March 1, 1838 aged 30. Being the first white female resident and the first death in the County of Fond du Lac. . . . — — Map (db m71325) HM
On U.S. 45 at Howard Litscher Memorial Drive, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 45.
Supple's Marsh came into being along with Lake Winnebago after retreat of a glacial ice sheet that covered this region 10,000 years ago.
The retreating glacier deposited gravel and rocks that blocked ancient northward flowing drainage systems . . . — — Map (db m62063) HM
On South Military Road at West 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north on South Military Road.
The Military Road, built in 1835, became the first highway to cross the state. Congress appropriated $5,000 to connect the St. Lawrence and Mississippi River basins.
The troops at Fort Crawford constructed the road from Prairie du Chien to . . . — — Map (db m46182) HM
On South Main Street, 0.1 miles south of Court Street, on the right when traveling south.
This monument honoring local Civil War soldiers resulted from the nationalist sentiment following the war. In 1894 local artist and Fond du Lac resident Mark Harrison bequeathed $500 to erect a monument in what is now Veterans Park.
On June 7, . . . — — Map (db m120322) HM
On North Lincoln Avenue at Portage Street, on the left when traveling south on North Lincoln Avenue.
Dedicated to all veterans
who have served our country
past – present – future.
We shall not forget.
1995
Second Ward
Honoring those who
answered their countries
call in World War II.
These gave their . . . — — Map (db m61245) HM
On East 2nd Avenue east of South Portland Street, on the right when traveling east.
Near this site on May 19, 1934, the Wisconsin Progressive Party was formally organized. The Party was the result of a movement begun forty years before on the principle that the will of the people should be the law of the land. The legislation it . . . — — Map (db m3648) HM
On County Highway W at County Highway Q, on the right when traveling south on County Highway W.
Father Caspar Rehrl
A priest, missionary, teacher, founder of churches and schools, and organizer of parishes, Father Rehrl was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1809. He became a missionary to North America, arriving in the new diocese of . . . — — Map (db m3293) HM
On County Road W at County Road Q, on the right when traveling south on County Road W.
Parish Founded in 1841
Present Church Built and Consecrated in 1857
Steeple Entrance and Sanctuary
added in the early 1890s
In Memory of
Clarence and Frances (Olig) Haensgen — — Map (db m162300) HM
On Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive (County Highway S) near Youth Camp Road (County Highway DD), on the right when traveling north.
Saint John Evangelical
Lutheran Church • Built 1871
New Fane, Wisconsin
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m60194) HM
On Watson Street at Seward Street on Watson Street.
1905–1973 · Public Library (relocated)
1973–1996 · Pearl's House of Fashion
1996–Present · Accurate Controls
The majority of the money for the building of this library was given to the city by Andrew Carnegie. . . . — — Map (db m61763) HM
On 1074 W Fond Du Lac St, Ripon, on the right when traveling north on 1074 W Fond Du Lac St, Ripon.
In 1852 Alvan Earle Bovay of Ripon met with Horace Greeley in New York and advocated dissolution of the Whig Party and formation of a new party to fuse together anti-slavery elements. At the same time he suggested the name "Republican" because he . . . — — Map (db m230206) HM
On Blackburn Street (State Highway 49) near East Blossom Street, on the right when traveling north.
In this school house on March 20, 1854 was held the first mass meeting in this country that definitely and positively cut loose from old parties, and advocated a new party under the name Republican. — — Map (db m64806) HM
On West Fond du Lac Street (State Highway 23 / 49) at Union Street on West Fond du Lac Street.
A national leader of the woman suffrage movement, Carrie Chapman Catt was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, in 1859 and spent most of her life as a tireless crusader for women’s rights. A gifted organizer, political strategist and public speaker, Catt . . . — — Map (db m4331) HM
On Union Street at Park Street, on the right when traveling south on Union Street.
The Long House is one of the few visible remains of the pioneer settlement of Ceresco. Founded in 1844 and named for Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture, Ceresco was the home of the Wisconsin Phalanx, an experiment in communal living according . . . — — Map (db m4330) HM
On Fond du Lac Street (State Highway 49) at Blackburn Street, on the left when traveling west on Fond du Lac Street.
First Baptist Church of Ripon
1857
Entered on the National
Register of Historic Places by
the United States Department
of the Interior
July 21, 2006
This building and grounds were presented to the Frank H. Brown Post 43, . . . — — Map (db m82500) HM
On Ransom Street north of West Blossom Street, on the right when traveling south.
Incorporated January 29, 1851. The first College building, East Hall, was staked out that spring by Ripon city founders David Mapes and Alvan Bovay. Chartered as Brockway College, it was renamed Ripon College in 1864 and graduated its first class, . . . — — Map (db m3596) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 26) 0.1 miles north of Wisconsin Street, on the right when traveling south.
In 1920 Wilbur Sisson established the first section of his Peony Gardens at this location. In 1929 he hired Jesse Phillips as his assistant and eventual partner to design and build a gateway arch and windmill for the entrance. These structures were . . . — — Map (db m48438) HM
On Kiekhaefer Parkway east of U.S. 151, on the left when traveling east.
Born in New York in 1827, Edward S. Bragg was admitted to the bar in 1848 and moved to Fond du Lac in 1850, where he practiced law and played an active role in politics. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Bragg joined other "War Democrats" in . . . — — Map (db m4118) HM
On Winnebago Drive, 0.2 miles south of County Highway K, on the left when traveling north.
This tablet marks the site of the toll gate on the Military Trail and Old Plank Road
1835 – January 10, 1916.
Erected by Fond du Lac Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1932 — — Map (db m3650) HM
Near North Madison Street (County Highway M) 0.4 miles north of East Main Street (State Highway 49), on the left when traveling north.
Inventor of the Hot-Patch, is fondly remembered by the residents of Waupun for: creating the Shaler Scholarships; being instrumental in the formation of the Rock River Country Club; purchasing for the city the world famous End of the Trail by Fraser . . . — — Map (db m25637) HM
Near North Madison Street (County Highway M) 0.4 miles north of East Main Street (State Highway 49), on the left when traveling north.
Created as a tribute to the American Indian by James Earle Fraser (1876–1953) when only 17. His twice life-sized plaster replica gained world fame at the 1915 San Franciso Exposition. Clarence Shaler, Waupun industrialist, commissioned . . . — — Map (db m25403) HM