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Just above the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers lies a 9-mile prairie whose beauty and location have long drawn people to its expans...
The Battle for Prairie du Chien
In The War of 1812 in Wisconsin, author Mary Elise Antoine brings a little-known corner of Wisconsin’s history to life. Prairie du Chien, located ju...
From the day Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Mississippi River in 1673, fur traders, and then settlers, were drawn to Prairie du Chien....
Five Black Women on the Upper Mississippi, 1800–1850
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made slavery illegal in the territory that would later become Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and part o...
1816-1840
North of the City of Prairie du Chien lies a small burying ground, which the life-long residents of the community call "Frenchtown Cemetery." In the e...
1816-1856
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