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The site of the Battle of Wisconsin Heights is preserved in northwestern Dane County, two miles (3 km) southeast of present-day Sauk City on State Highway 78. It is owned by the Department of Natural Resources, and is open to the public. It is the only intact battle site from the American Indian Wars found in the U.S. Midwest. [11]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
The Wisconsin Heights Battlefield is the only intact battle site from the Indian Wars found in the U.S. Midwest. [11] This significance led to its inclusion in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 2002. [1] It is one of five 1832 Black Hawk War battle sites listed on the National Register.
Battle of Fallen Timbers: August 20, 1794 near modern Maumee, Ohio: Northwest Indian War 77 [9] Western Confederacy vs United States of America Battle of Marblehead Peninsula [10] September 29, 1812 modern Marblehead, Ohio: War of 1812 [11] 48 Tecumseh's confederacy vs United States citizens Siege of Fort Meigs [12] April 28 - May 9, 1813 ...
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Fort Recovery had been garrisoned since spring 1794 by a 250-man detachment of Gen. Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States. On June 30, 1794, a United States supply column left Fort Recovery for Fort Greenville, under the command of Major William McMahon and escorted by ninety riflemen under Captain Asa Hartshome and fifty dragoons under Lieutenant Edmund Taylor.
When the Black Hawk War broke out, Daniel and his son Peter served under Henry Dodge, including in the decisive Battle of Wisconsin Heights. [4] During the war, the Parkinsons spent some time in the stockade of Fort Defiance, five miles southeast of Mineral Point. In 1832 Daniel bought 80 acres of land a half mile from the fort, on the Military ...
The settlement of Blue Mounds was founded in 1828 by Ebenezer Brigham on the south slope of the eastern mound of the Blue Mounds. [1] In 1832, when word arrived that Chief Black Hawk and his 1200 Sauk followers had crossed the Mississippi River, it was decided to build a fort to protect the settlers.