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The Peshtigo fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
The cemetery is the burial location of the charred remains of victims of the Peshtigo Fire, of October 8, 1871, the deadliest natural fire in the history of the United States. [2] Identified victims were buried in traditional marked graves, and over 300 unidentified victims were buried in a mass grave.
The fire eventually stopped after burning itself out, which was helped by rain that had started on the night of October 9. The fire killed around 300 people, burned 2,112 acres, and cost $222 million. The fire would spur Chicago and many other cities to enact new building codes to help prevent fires from breaking out and spreading as far. [15]
150 years after the Peshtigo Fire, we remember those who lost their lives, and take a closer look at what actually caused the blaze.
The 1871 Peshtigo Fire started in October of 1871 and took anywhere from 1,200 to 2,400 lives, taking more lives than any other wildfire in the country's history.
The Peshtigo Fire Museum preserves the heritage of the Peshtigo Fire, which destroyed the city of Peshtigo, Wisconsin and surrounding area on October 8, 1871, killing over 2,000 people. It hosts storytelling, exhibits of artifacts from the fire, displays of the lifestyle at the time of the disaster, and a cemetery to memorialize those who died.
The wreck matches the descriptions of the George L. Newman, which was built in 1855 and sank in 1871 during the worst forest fire in U.S. history. A 4-year-old Peshtigo girl went fishing on Lake ...
1891 monument in Hoboken, New Jersey. The list of firefighting monuments and memorials covers firefighters' contributions, and some memorials to other fire victims, such as the mass memorial to unknown victims of the 1871 Peshtigo fire, which caused the greatest loss of life of any fire in the United States.