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Silver Mound is a sandstone hill in Wisconsin where American Indians quarried quartzite for stone tools. Tools made from Silver Mound's quartzite have been found as far away as Kentucky . The oldest have been dated to around 11,000 years ago, so they provide clues about the first people in Wisconsin. [ 3 ]
Neighborhood of houses and churches near the industrial area along the Rock River, including the 1848 Lathrop-Munn cobblestone house, [22] the late-1840s Selvy-Blodgett house, [20] the 1858 Italianate-style Parker house, [23] the 1877 Gothic Revival-styled Norwegian Lutheran Church, [24] the 1889 Queen Anne/Stick-style Anderson house (pictured ...
Van Hise Rock is a rock monolith located along Wisconsin Highway 136 near Rock Springs, Wisconsin. The rock is a geologically significant outcropping of Baraboo Quartzite. It serves as a monument to Charles Van Hise, a prominent Wisconsin geologist who studied the area extensively. [3] The rock was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997 ...
Chipped stone artifacts - including 24 projectile points, 13 knives, 92 end scrapers, 22 side scrapers, 9 cores and 3 hammerstones. Of the projectile points, the most numerous category (20) was the small triangular Madison point. Ground stone artifacts - including 4 abrading stones, 1 grinding stone and 3 catlinite fragments
Hull is a town in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 5,493 at the 2000 census. The population was 5,493 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Casimir and Jordan are located in the town.
Several tribes have used rock from the quarry to create ceremonial pipes. Historically, various tribes would travel long distances to acquire the special red-colored stone found in the quarry. [3] A widespread legend among the tribes is that the stone gets its color from the flesh and blood of their ancestors.
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76.5 foot harbor tug, built in 1881 by Rand and Burger of Manitowoc with a wooden hull and a steam-screw drive. Escorted Goodrich steamers and other vessels around Manitowoc, Milwaukee and Chicago harbors for 49 years. Then stripped and abandoned in 1930.