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The Highground Veterans Memorial Park, also called The Highground, is located 4 miles (6 km) west of Neillsville, Wisconsin, USA, on Ridge Road (just off of U.S. Route 10). [1] The memorial was built as a tribute to fallen veterans and as an honor to the surviving military personnel. [ 1 ]
In 1865 Abraham Lincoln approved a "National Asylum" to care for volunteer Union soldiers who had been wounded during the Civil War. [1] The Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established in 1866, as an old soldiers' home in the then northwestern region of United States. [4]
The city of Waupaca purchased the land and buildings of the defunct Greenwood Park Hotel and donated the grounds to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) for the site of a veterans' home. [1] Civil War physician and GAR member Dr. Frederick Marden was chosen to head a five-member committee to organize a Wisconsin veterans' home.
VFW Menasha Post 2126 will be hosting its Veterans Day Program at Jefferson School, 105 Ice St., from 11 a.m. Nov. 11. A Veterans Day Dinner will be held at Dome Sports Bar at 1338 Commercial St ...
A patriotic concert. The Peninsula Symphonic Band and its Swingin' Door Big Band play their annual Veterans Day concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Sturgeon Bay.
There was talk of splitting the parcel into city lots to sell, but the Civil War veterans who had trained there objected. [2] The site was purchased by the state of Wisconsin in 1893 and deeded to the University of Wisconsin. Football play began there in 1895. [14] Of the original 53½ acres, a segment was set aside as Camp Randall Park in 1911 ...
Keith Uhlig is a regional features reporter for USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin based in Wausau. Contact him at 715-845-0651 or kuhlig@gannett.com . Follow him at @UhligK on X, formerly Twitter, and ...
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum, located on Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, is dedicated to telling the stories of the veterans of the state of Wisconsin. The museum comprises two galleries that chronicle the history of Wisconsin citizens who served in the U.S. military from the American Civil War to the present day.