Historical Markers in Dane County, Wisconsin
9XM - WHA
A Grand Experiment
A Living Room for Campus
A Stage for All
Adolf H. Kayser House
Albion Academy
Aldo Leopold House
Alexander Smith House
All about nets
American Exchange Bank
American House
American Tobacco Co. Warehouses
Andreas Dahl
Anna and Cornelius Collins Residence
Anton F. and Mary Kubicek Duplex
Armory & Gymnasium
B. B. Clarke House
B.B. Clarke
Badger State Shoe Factory
Barry Alvarez
Bashford House
Baskerville Apartments
Battle of Wisconsin Heights
Bear
Bear and Lynx Effigy Mounds
Beecroft House
Bellevue Apartments
Belmont Hotel
Bernard - Hoover Boat House
Bernie's Beach
Biederstaedt Breitenbach Grocery
Bird Effigy
Bird Effigy Mound
Black Bridge
Black Hawk
Black Hawk
Blackhawk Country Club Mound Group
Blue Mounds Fort
Born in Madison, the Wisconsin Idea changed the nation
Boutell House
Bovre Congregation
Bowen House
Bradley-Sigma Phi House
Braley House
Breese J. Stevens House
Breese Stevens Field
Brigham Park
Brittingham Boat House
Buell House
Bungalowen
Burr Jones Field
Burrows Park
Camp Randall
Capitol Square has long been the heart of the city
Cardinal Hotel
Carp for sale
Ceramic Arts Studio of Madison
Chamberlin Rock
Charles Butz Store
Chi Phi Fraternity
Chi Psi Lodge
City Horse Barn
City Market
Collins House
Conical Mound
Controlling Blood Clotting
Corry Carriage House
Crescent Street Factories, Mazomanie Blacksmiths, Coal Buildings
Curtis-Kittleson House
Cutter House
Dane County Home
David James Schaefer
De Forest Centennial
Dean House / Nathaniel Dean
Delta Upsilon Fraternity House
Derrick C. Bush House
Dick-Eddy Buildings
Discovering Vitamins and Trace Minerals
Discovery of Vitamins A and B
Disease-Resistant Plants
Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School
Dogtown - Fish Hatchery School
Donald Park
Doty School
Dowling Apartments
Dr. Robert Fassnacht
Draper Brothers Block
Drohman Farm
Eagle Effigy
Early Belleville / Library Park
Early Social Whirl
East Park Historic District
East Side High School
Eben and Rosaline Peck
Edgewood
Edna Taylor Conservation Park
Edward Klief Park
Eggiman House
Eliminating Pellagra
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Elliott House
Elvers Corner
Elvis Presley Fight Scene
Ely House
Emily Thompson House
Ernie's Trading Post
Father Adalbert Inama -- St. Norbert House
Fess Hotel
Festge Park
Fire Station #4
First Chemical Synthesis of a Gene
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Reliable Test of Milk Quality
First Rural Free Delivery in Wisconsin
Fish Camp Launch
Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery & Effigy Mound Group
Forest Hill Soldiers' Lot
Forging Agrarian Democracy
Frank G. Brown House
Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage / Frank J. Hess, Cooper
Fuller & Johnson Manufacturing Co. Office Building
Gates of Heaven Synagogue
Gay Liberation Sculpture
Genetically Superior Crops
George Kalbfleisch, Jr. Farm House
George Nichols Home - Circa 1878
George Soelch Investment House
Georgia O'Keeffe
German Valley
Gilmore House
Gisholt Machine Company Manufacturing Complex
Glenwood Children's Park
Global Vision
Gloria Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church
Goose Lake
Governor Leonard Farwell lived here, in his octagonal mansion
Grace Episcopal Church
Greenbush
Grimm Book Bindery
Haney's Tavern
Hans Christian Heg
Harvey Hospital
Hauge Log Church - 1852
Here was Madisons first African-American neighborhood
Heritage of the Hill
Herman J. Loftsgordon House
Hickory Hill House
Hiestand Park
Hiestand School
Hirsig House
Hocheera
Hoffman - Kennedy Dairy Horse Barn
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
Holy Redeemer School Building
Hotel Loraine
How to catch 30,000 carp
Howard M. Temin
Howard M. Temin
Hoyt Park
Hyer - Jaquish Hotel
Illinois Central Depot / Fitchburg
In Memory of Our Beloved Sons
In Memory of Rev. Adalbert Inama, O. Praem.
Indian Bird Effigy Mound
Indian Lake
Indian Lake Passage
Indian Mounds
Irene and Robert Connor Residence
Italian Workmen's Club
Jackman Building
Jacobs House I
James and Bridget Casserly House
James Doris Farmhouse
James Mears House
Johann and Elsbeth Reiner Tree
John A. Johnson made Madison's Factory District Flourish
John A. Urich
John F. Appleby
John George Ott House
John M. Olin
John M. Olin
John Mann House
John Nolen Causeway
Joseph Stoner House
Keenan House
Kendall House
Kerl School
Kessenich's Building
Keyes House
Keystone House
King Street Arcade
Kircher House
Klose Cottage
Koshkonong
La Follette House
Lake Harriet School
Lake View School
Lamb Building
Larson House
Law Park
Leaders in Science
Leitch House
Lincoln in Wisconsin
Lincoln School
Lincoln Statue
Lizard Effigy Mound
Longfellow School
Lougee House
Lt. Gerald Stull USAF
Luther Memorial Chapel
Luther Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lynch and Walker Flouring Mill
Machinery Row
Madison Candy Company
Madison Catholic Clubhouse
Madison Club
Madison Gas & Electric Company Powerhouse
Madison Hotel
Madison is an Indian mound capital
Madison Masonic Temple
Madison Park & Pleasure Drive Association
Maeder Building / Ellsworth Block
Main Street Historic District
Mansion Hill Historic District
Marshall Academy and High School
Mass Production of Penicillin
Mattermore - Malaney House
Maureen Mengelt Memorial
Mazomanie
Mazomanie Community Building
Mazomanie Electric Power Plant
Mazomanie Sand Barrens
Mendota
Middleton's Beginning
Miller House
Mills Brothers Commercial Building
Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Depot
Milwaukee Road Depot
Mohr / Christoffer Block
Monona Lake Assembly Normal Hall
Mononas Birthplace / Monona's History
Morehouse House
Mound City
Nakoma
Nathan Dane
Nathan Dane
Nathaniel Dean Farmhouse
Natural Wonders
Nelson House
Nichols Station
North Hall
Olbrich Park
Olbrich Park / Michael B. Olbrich
Olbrich's Thai Pavilion and Gardens
Old Governor's Mansion
Old Halfway Prairie
Old Military Road - 100 Mile Point
Old Spring Hotel
Old Spring Tavern
Old Town
Olin Terrace
Olin-Turville Park
Olson and Veerhusen Building / Hobbins Block
On the Air
Orpheum Theater
Orton Park
Orton Park
Otis Redding
Otto Schroeder House
Our Bell
Outdoor markets are a Madison tradition
Panther Mound
Paoli
Pat Richter
Patrons' Mercantile Co-op
Paunack Park
Peck Cabin
Peculiar Corners
Period Garden Park
Pheasant Branch Encampment
Phi Gamma Delta House
Philip Schoen Building
Pierce House
Pioneer Men and Women
Pioneer Scottish Settlement
Pioneering Bacterial Genetics
Pioneering Human Genetics
Plough Inn
Preventing Endemic Goiter
Primrose Lutheran Church
Quisling Towers Apartments
Rasmus Björn Anderson
Reform and Revolt
Reindahl Memorial Park
Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionizing Animal Reproduction
Riley House
Robert E. Gard Memorial Storyteller's Circle
Robert Lamp House
Robert M. La Follette Home
Robert M. La Follette: The Early Years
Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.
Rockdale Mill
Royal Airport / Charles Lindbergh
Sauthoff House
Schmidt's Auto, Inc.
Schubert Building
Schumacher Farm
Science Hall
Scientific Approach to Agriculture
Seasons of Fish Camp
Securing the Future
Sheepskin School
Sherman Avenue Crossing
Shipley-Shuttleworth House
Site of Blue Mounds Fort
Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials
Site of the First Well in DeForest
Sixth Ward Public Library
Smith and Lamb Block
Smith-Ogg House
Spirit of Greenbush
Springdale Lutheran Church
Springhaven Pagoda
St. Bernard's Catholic Church
St. Mary of the Oaks
St. Patrick's Church
St. Raphael's Frenchtown Cemetery
Stang-Wirth House
Starkweather's Harried History
State Historical Society
State Office Building
Steensland Bridge
Steensland Bridge
Steensland House
Steinle Turret Machine Co.
Stephen Moulton Babcock
Sterling North
Stoughton
Suhr Bank Building
Suhr House
Swan Pond
Tenney Park
Tenney Park
Tenney Park Lock and Dam
Terrace Homes Apartments
The American Character
The Big Church on the Hillside
The Branch Line
The De Forest Depot
The Fairchild Home
The First Dance
The Flag on the Bluff
The Greenbush
The Land Ethic
The Lemcke Farm House
The Lewis Nine Springs E-Way / Philip and Elizabeth Lewis
The Matz Farmstead
The Mazomanie Depot
The Mazomanie Downtown Historic District
The McCoy Farmhouse
The Monona Mound
The Nurses Dormitory
The Outlet Mound
The Plain Good Building of Cross Plains
The Power of Ideas
The Railroad in Mazomanie
The Ringling Brothers
The School of Pharmacy
The Second Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House
The Stamm House
The Story of the Pink Elephant
The Temperance Movement Battled Madison''s Breweries
The Train Wreck of 1906
The Turntable, The Engine House, The Water Tower
The Wisconsin Granger Movement
Third Lake
Third Lake Passage
This Cabin... / Esta Cabaña...
This city was planned in 1836
Thomas / Hill Grocery and Residence
Thorstrand
Timothy and Katherine McCarthy House
Timothy Brown House
Token Creek
Token Creek Sedge Meadow Trail
Too many carp
Toward Revolution / 1970's Vision
Tragedy of War
Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia
Turtle Effigy
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse
Understanding Immunity
Unitarian Meeting House
University Creek Group
University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn
University of Wisconsin Field House
University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
University Presbyterian Church and Student Center
Van Slyke House
Vermont Creek
Vietnam War protesters and police clashed here
Vilas
Village of McFarland
Vitamin D Production Ends Rickets
Voluntarios Internacionales de la Libertad
Warner Park
Washington Grade and Orthopedic School
Way of the Cross at Cathedral Place
Welcome to the Edgewood Park and Pleasure Drive
West Koshkonong Lutheran Congregation
What would you have seen here 14,000 years ago?
Wiedenbeck-Dobelin Warehouse
Willett S. Main Building
Winterbotham Building
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Wisconsin Heights Battlefield
Wisconsin State Capitol
Wisconsin Wagon Company Factory
Wollersheim Winery
Woman's Building
Wootton - Mead House
Working at Fish Camp
World-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright called Madison his hometown
Yahara River
Yahara River Parkway
Yahara River Parkway
"Elmside"
"Let The Great Spirits Soar"
About Dane County
Dane County Timeline
Dane County, Wisconsin, has a rich history that dates back thousands of years. Before European settlers arrived, the area was inhabited by various Native American tribes, including the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) and the Menominee. These tribes relied on hunting, fishing, and farming for their livelihoods and had established communities in the region.
In the early 1800s, European settlers began to arrive in what is now Dane County. The first permanent settlement was established in the present-day city of Madison in 1829 by James Duane Doty, who would later become the first territorial governor of Wisconsin. Doty selected the location for its strategic position between the Four Lakes region and the established lead mining communities to the southwest.
In 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was created, and the territorial capital was moved from Belmont to Madison, making it the center of government for the region. The construction of the Wisconsin State Capitol building began in 1837, solidifying Madison's status as the capital of the newly formed state of Wisconsin in 1848.
Throughout the 19th century, Dane County experienced significant growth and development. The construction of railroads in the mid-1800s brought increased transportation and commerce to the region. Agriculture, particularly dairy farming, became a major industry, and the county became known for its production of milk and cheese.
In the 20th century, Dane County continued to grow as the University of Wisconsin-Madison became a prominent educational institution and the state's flagship university. The county also became a center for government, healthcare, and technology, with the establishment of government agencies, hospitals, and tech companies. Today, Dane County is known for its vibrant culture, beautiful natural landscapes, and thriving economy.
In the early 1800s, European settlers began to arrive in what is now Dane County. The first permanent settlement was established in the present-day city of Madison in 1829 by James Duane Doty, who would later become the first territorial governor of Wisconsin. Doty selected the location for its strategic position between the Four Lakes region and the established lead mining communities to the southwest.
In 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was created, and the territorial capital was moved from Belmont to Madison, making it the center of government for the region. The construction of the Wisconsin State Capitol building began in 1837, solidifying Madison's status as the capital of the newly formed state of Wisconsin in 1848.
Throughout the 19th century, Dane County experienced significant growth and development. The construction of railroads in the mid-1800s brought increased transportation and commerce to the region. Agriculture, particularly dairy farming, became a major industry, and the county became known for its production of milk and cheese.
In the 20th century, Dane County continued to grow as the University of Wisconsin-Madison became a prominent educational institution and the state's flagship university. The county also became a center for government, healthcare, and technology, with the establishment of government agencies, hospitals, and tech companies. Today, Dane County is known for its vibrant culture, beautiful natural landscapes, and thriving economy.
Dane County Timeline
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Dane County, Wisconsin.
- 1836: Dane County is established and named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts lawyer.
- 1848: Wisconsin becomes a state, with Madison selected as the capital of both the state and Dane County.
- 1850s: Railroads are built in the county, leading to increased trade and economic growth.
- 1861-1865: Many residents from Dane County serve in the Civil War.
- 1870s: The University of Wisconsin-Madison is established, becoming a major educational institution in the county.
- 1880s: Urbanization and industrialization lead to the growth of Madison's economy.
- 1930s: The Great Depression hits Dane County and the rest of the United States, causing significant economic hardships.
- 1950s-1970s: Urban growth, suburbanization, and the expansion of the University of Wisconsin-Madison contribute to the county's population growth.
- 1992: Construction of the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison is completed.
- 2000s: Dane County experiences steady population growth and becomes known for its vibrant arts, culture, and outdoor recreational opportunities.