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Gothic Revival-style church built 1848-1851 by Episcopal congregation - the oldest church in continuous use in Rock County and one of the oldest surviving stone Gothic churches in Wisconsin. 125: Stark-Clint House: Stark-Clint House: September 13, 1985 : Creek Rd.
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 ]
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.
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
The Red Ocher people were an indigenous people of North America. A series of archaeological sites located in the Upper Great Lakes, the Greater Illinois River Valley, and the Ohio River Valley in the American Midwest have been discovered to be a Red Ocher burial complex, dating from 1000 BC to 400 BC, the Terminal Archaic – Early Woodland period.
Stonehaven is a former community in the Town of Belgium, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. From 1901 until 1925, the community was a company town of the Lake Shore Stone Company, which operated a 25-acre dolomite quarry in the area near the western shore of Lake Michigan. The land is now the site of Harrington Beach State Park.
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The park contains an ancient burial ground used by the Old Copper Complex Culture of early Native Americans, between 5,000 and 6,000 B.C.E. during the Copper Age.It was rediscovered in June 1952 by a 13-year-old boy who unearthed human bones while playing in an old quarry.