Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-05-13
Little Journeys In
and About Baraboo
Interesting Places of the Region Both to Local History and
Scenic Features


er was killed by an aborigine. The
deer was committed, it is said little
southwest of the intersection of the
lStreetS.
| Pauquette wa some Of the most
picturesque figures in the early days
of Wisconsin indissollubly identified
with those who cast their lot at the
portage.
Monument to DISCOVERIES
Crossing the canal bridge near the
Wisconsin River and continuing south
several blocks, a granite monument
marks the place where Jacques Mar
quette and Louis Joliet, the first white
men to visit this region, crossed the
Portage on June IA, 1873, and floated
down the Wisconsin.
Many noted persons crossed the
portage in early times. Duluth and
Hennepin were here in 1880 and
Nicholas Perrot, the Baron Lahontan,
and Charles Pierre LIE Sueur were
three famous travellers in the late
seventeenth century An expedition to
build a French fort on the upper Mis-
sissippi, passed here in 1927; JOhna-
than Carver tells of his visit in 1866;
and here was the rendezvous for In
dian forces during the American Rev
Olution. An expedition against st.
Louis gathered here in 1880. Then
came the much passing Of troops be-
tween Fort Howard at Green Bay and
Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chen.
Here in 1927 occurred the dramatic
Surrender of Red Bird bringing to a
lclose the Winnebago War.
In 1893 Laurent Barth came to trans
port baggage with oxen, in 1902
lAugustin Grignon w1ntered at the
portage as a fur trader, and in 1910
the overland division of the Historian
expedition to the Pacific coast went
westward over this historic route.
| During the war of 1912 Robert Dix
on, British Indian Agent, collected his
savage allies at this point; and the ex-
petition which drove the Americans
from Prairie du Chen, passed thither
in 1914 By this route the British
forces, following the treaty of Client,
retreated in 1915.
An Early Hosiery
Carpenters place was on the cor
ner to the south of the monument. In
la building near the L.0neer hotel, Abe
! Wood killed Pawnee Blanc, buried in
a mound near the Portage-end of the
Wisconsin River bridge.
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ton of the commissary building of the
fort will be observed a few rods to the
left. Goods from boats plying the
Fox were unloaded into the building;
a fragment of the wall still remains,
hidden in the weeds and grass.
The frame house to the right, some
what modified, was the fort hospital.
Continuing on Bronson Avenue to
the east and after crossing the rail
road tracks, the location of the Frank
i, lin House may be seen several rods
to the right. A large elm tree with a
small house back of it marks the To-
cation of the pioneer Portage hotel
where dignitaries Of the early days
. were entertained.
The Riverbend Place, the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. STAGE, is the last
house before crossing the Fox River
To the rear of this house is where
Henry Merrill, the sutler Of Fort
Winnebago, resided.
Fort Winnebago
The we'll at the farmstead at the
left was in the center of Fort Winnie
, bago when completed in 1880. The
, portage was made a military post in
, 1928, Major David E. Twiggs erecting
the fertilization. During the Black
Hawk War the outpost was useful in
, checking the hostile tribesmen, it
. remained a garrison until 1845, and
> was sold in 1853, the nineteen and
, lfifteen-hundreths acres bringing $23.-
"a. The old deed is in the Portage
J.. Library.
Colonel Zachary Taylor, afterward
: president of the United States, visited
6 the fort with Captain Hugh Brady,
, Indian fighter, in 1886, and Lieutenant
q Jefferson Davis, later president of the
q confederacy, came with the military
q place Judge D. Doty, afterward ter
o. ritorial governor, often was there,
! while General Lewis Cass, and Cap
O tain Frederick Marryat, celebrated
a English novelist, were among the
many noted visitors. Miss Marcy,
! later the wife of General George B.
Mcclellan, was a child here, the
I daughter Of lieutenant,
g. The Old Cemetery
! Continuing on the central of the
g three roads about quarter of a
q mile, the Fort Winnebago cemetery
4 will be found in a grove to the right.
t Near the west fence is the grave of
Cooper Pixley, soldier of the Revo-
1, luton, who died in 1856, aged Sc.
IL A little to the east is the grave of