Nathaniel Dean, Dean House WI387
As an early Regent of the University of Wisconsin, State Assemblyman and Madison area landowner and businessman, Nathaniel Dean was influential in campus, Capitol and city construction activities. He was also instrumental in the town of Blooming Grove's growth and donated land for the original Town Hall and the Commonwealth Cemetery. Nathaniel and Harriet Dean built this Madison Landmark and National Register listed farm house in 1856 on their country estate of 508 acres, which produced grain crops and livestock.
DEAN HOUSE
This simple flat-roofed cream brick structure with wood cornice and dentils was built by the Dean family as their country home. After 1871, the house was used by tenant farmers and in the 1920's as the Monona Golf Course clubhouse, serving in this capacity for 50 years. The Historic Blooming Grove Historical Society began restoration of the Dean House in 1972. The house serves as a center for cultural events and local history study and as a living testament to the pioneer spirit.

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Peck Cabin WI382
Once located here, Peck Cabin-Madison's first residence, business and post office-was built by entrepreneurs Ebenezer and Roseline Peck in 1837. Constructing their cabin with adjoining additions near the new territorial capitol site, the Pecks opened their building as a public house and provided food, drink and lodging to visitors and new arrivals. On July 4th 1837, the Pecks hosted the Capitol cornerstone-laying celebration. Robert Ream assumed the business in 1838, and the cabin remained important to Madison's early development but was demolished in 1857.

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Dahlgren's Raid SA31
Col. Ulric Dahlgren’s Union cavalry passed through this area late in the evening of 1 March 1864 before defeating the Richmond Armory Battalion at the Battle of Green’s Farm, just south on Three Chopt Road. Dalgren led his command toward Richmond on the Westham Plank Road (now Cary Street Road) for about half a mile. At Hicks’s Farm, five miles from Capitol Square, about 420 of his cavalrymen encountered the local defense troops of the Departmental Battalion and the remnants of the Armory Battalion. After a brief skirmish in the darkness during a rain, snow, and sleet storm, Dahlgren retreated and tried to rejoin Brig. Gen. H. Judson Kilpatrick’s force on Brock Road. Dahlgren was killed in King and Queen County the next day.

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1998 Wisconsin Assembly (Sesquicentennial Marker) WI355

SPEAKER Scott R. Jensen SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE Stephen J. Freese CHIEF CLERK Charles R. Sanders
John H. Ainsworth Sheryl Albers Tammy Baldwin James R. Baumgart Spencer Black Peter E. Bock Frank Boyle David A. Brandemuehl Tim Carpenter G. Spencer Coggs David A. Cullen John P. Dobyns Robert M. Dueholm Marc C. Duff Steven M. Foti John G. Gard Robert G. Goetsch Mark A. Green Barbara Gronemus Glenn Grothman Scott 1. Gunderson Eugene Hahn Joseph W. Handrick Doris 1. Hanson Sheila E. Harsdorf Donald W. Hasenohrl Tom Hebl Timothy T. Hoven Gregory B. Huber Mary Hubler Michael D. Huebsch David E. Hutchison	Suzanne Jeskewitz DuWayne G. Johnsrud Dean R. Kaufert Neal J. Kedzie Carol Kelso Judith Klusman Rob Kreibich James E. Kreuser Shirley Krug Peggy Krusick Walter J. Kunicki John La Fave Bonnie 1. Ladwig Frank G. Lasee Mary A. Lazich John W. Lehman Michael A. Lehman Barbara J. Linton William D. Lorge Mark Meyer Johnnie Morris-Tatum William M. Murat Terry M. Musser Stephen 1. Nass Barbara Notestein Luther S. Olsen Alvin R. Ott Jr. Clifford Otte Thomas D. Ourada Carol Owens Jeffrey T. Plale Joe Plouff	Cloyd A. Porter Rosemary Potter Mike Powers Marty Reynolds Antonio R. Riley Judy Biros Robson John J. Ryba Chuck Schafer Marlin D. Schneider Lorraine M. Seratti Rick Skindrud Thomas J. Springer Anthony J. Staskunas John P. Steinbrink Tom Sykora David M. Travis Robert 1. Turner Gregg Underheim Frank H. Urban William N. Vander Loop Daniel P.Vrakas Scott K. Walker David W. Ward Sheldon A. Wasserman Steve Wieckert A. Polly Williams Wayne W. Wood Leon D. Young Rebecca Young Bob Ziegelbauer Robert K. Zukowski

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Shorewood Armory WI366
The Shorewood Armory, once located near Capitol Drive and Oakland Avenue, was home to the cavalry unit of the Wisconsin National Guard from 1910 to 1930. Originally called the Light Horse Squadron, the cavalry drilled their horses on the thirty-acre armory grounds and the streets of Shorewood. The armory complex included military offices, the commander's house, a dormitory, a gymnasium, and a large barn with sixty-five stables. Shorewood's rapid suburban expansion forced the cavalry unit to move in 1931.

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The State Museum of Pennsylvania PA9001
Since its creation in 1905, The State Museum of Pennsylvania has collected, preserved, researched, and interpreted the cultural and natural history of the state.  Over the years, the museum has greatly expanded its collections and modernized its public offerings to serve the needs of succeeding generations of Pennsylvanians.  First located next to the Capitol, the museum moved here in 1964.  It became part of the Pennsylvania Historica and Museum Commission in 1945.

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Old Abe, the War Eagle WI14
This wayside is part of the old McCann farm, childhood home of Old Abe, the War eagle. In the Spring of 1861 a band of hungry Chippewa came to the McCann farm and traded a young eagle for corn. The eagle became a family pet. When Company C. Eighth Wisconsin was organized at Eau Claire for Civil War Duty, the crippled Dan McCann offered his eagle's services as mascot, feeling that "someone from the family ought to go." On October 12, 1861, the eagle Regiment started for the front. In action Old Abe spread his wings screamed encouragement to his men. The louder the noise of battle, the fiercer were his screams. The eagle served with the regiment In 42 skirmishes and battles and lost only a few feathers. After three years service, Old Abe was formally presented to the State of Wisconsin September 26, 1864. A room was equipped for him in the Capitol and a man employed to care for him. His last public appearance occurred at the National Encampment of the G.A.R. in Milwaukee in 1880, were he and General U.S. Grant were honored guests. After a brief illness, Old Abe died March 28, 1881.

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Dr. John Gorrie FL94

Dr. John Gorrie (1803-1855) was an early pioneer in the invention of the artificial manufacture of ice, refrigeration, and air conditioning. He was granted the first U.S. patent for mechanical refrigeration on May 6, 1851 (U.S. Patent # 8080). Dr. Gorrie moved to Apalachicola in 1833 after the completion of his education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in Fairfield, New York. Motivated by a severe yellow fever epidemic in the summer of 1841, Dr. Gorrie and his predecessors felt the fever was caused by heat, humidity and decaying vegetation. He sought to effect a cure by introducing an element of cold in the form of refrigeration. Dr. Gorrie noted, “Nature would terminate the fevers by the changing of seasons.” In May 1844, he constructed the refrigeration that received the patent. This mechanism produced ice in quantities but leakage and irregular performance impaired its operation. At various times he served as a physician of the Marine Hospital Service, Postmaster, President of the Apalachicola Branch Bank of Pensacola, Mayor, Secretary of the Masonic Lodge, and founding vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church. Dr. Gorrie was honored by the State of Florida with a statue of him placed in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol.

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Dr. Malcolm Nicholson Home FL95

Located just north of this point is the Dr. Malcolm Nicholson Plantation Home. Built in the 1820's, it is one of the oldest remaining structures in Gadsden County. It is a one-story Gulf coast Cottage, with end-gables and a built-in porch. It rests on brick piers and has a "dog-trot" floor plan in which a covered passage joins two parts of the house. Nicholson was born in the Carolinas in 1790. He moved to Georgia and then to North Florida where, like many frontier practitioners he combined his activities as a physician and planter. He was one of the commissioners who chose Quincy as the county seat of Gadsden County, and a member of the group which selected the site for the Capitol in Tallahassee. Dr. Nicholson was appointed by the citizens of Gadsden County in 1836 to petition the President of the United States for protection against Creek and Seminole raids on the Florida frontier. He was a stockholder in the Union Bank and served that institution as an appraiser. Dr. Nicholson died in 1840 and is buried in the Nicholson Family Cemetery near here.

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Carson City NV44
Nevada's State Capitol, and one of the state's oldest towns, was first established in 1851 as Eagle Station, a trading post and small ranch on the Carson Branch of the California Emigrant Trail kept by Frank and W.L. Hall and George Jollenshee. The station and surrounding valley took their names from an eagle skin stretched on the trading post wall. From 1855 to 1857, Mormon colonizers under Elder Orson Hyde settled in Eagle, Carson and Washoe Valleys. In 1857, they were called back to Salt Lake City by Brigham Young. Carson City itself was founded and laid out in 1858 by Abraham Curry, who bought the Eagle Station and ranch when he found lots at Genoa too expensive. Curry named his town after the Carson River and left a plaza in its center for his predicted location of the state capital. In the 1860's, Carson City was a station on the Pony Express and the Overland Mail under both Butterfield and Wells, Fargo and Co. In 1861, true to Curry's prediction, and aided considerably by his own shrewd maneuvers, Carson City became the Capital of Nevada Territory. When Nevada became a state in 1864, Carson City was the state's capital, and in 1870 the present capitol building was completed in the plaza Curry had reserved for it.

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