Wisconsin, Waupaca County, Iola
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Side 1
The office and home of Dr. T.E. Loope, a member of the first organized University of Wisconsin football team back in 1889, stood on this site. Truman Elbert Loope was born on May 3, 1870, in Eureka, Wis., and graduated from the University of Madison Medical School in 1891. He began his Iola practice in 1899, became completely blind in the fall of 1928, but prior to his death on Dec. 6, 1942, had continued practicing for several more years.
An interview conducted by a reporter for The Capital Times while he was in Madison attending the 50th anniversary of his graduation from medical school was published on Sunday, June 22, 1941, and reprinted in the Iola Herald on Thursday, June 26, 1941, revealed some astonishing and interesting facts.
“There were hundreds of alumni back on the University of Wisconsin campus Saturday (on June 21, 1941),” the reporter stated, “but the one happiest to 'see' old friends, was a 71-year-old blind man from Iola, Wis., who played on the first Badger football team back in 1889. Dr. Truman E. Loope lost his eyesight after catching a severe cold at the Wisconsin-Minnesota football game in Madison in 1928, but he had a grand time as the class of 1891 held its reunion Saturday.”
Side 2
“I remember how football started at the University,” Dr. Loope stated to the reporter. “Charley Meyers went east, heard about it and came back wanting to have a team. I remember Meyers and Bill Blackburn and I talked about it all through one chemistry laboratory session. We had a hard time getting players. No one paid much attention to us, and some thought we were crazy. But we got 11 fellows together. We chipped in, bought canvas jackets and pants, and then got red stocking caps for headgear. We used old newspapers for padding.
“Not a single one of us had seen a game when we played the first time in Milwaukee against the Milwaukee Athletic Club. They had former college players from the east and how they licked us! Our mustaches were dragging on the ground when we came home,” Dr. Loope continued. “But we got better as we went along. We thought we were pretty good the next year when we beat Whitewater Normal 108-0, but then we played Minnesota the last game of the year and they beat us 61-0.”
Recalling the last time he saw a football game, Dr. Loope recounted: “I came down here in 1928 to see Wisconsin and Minnesota on a raw cold day. I could see fairly well then, but I caught cold on the way home and when I got over the cold my eyes were sealed up tight. Since then I only see the games we used to play.”
(Notable Persons • Sports) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Side 1The office and home of Dr. T.E. Loope, a member of the first organized University of Wisconsin football team back in 1889, stood on this site. Truman Elbert Loope was born on May 3, 1870, in Eureka, Wis., and graduated from the University of Madison Medical School in 1891. He began his Iola practice in 1899, became completely blind in the fall of 1928, but prior to his death on Dec. 6, 1942, had continued practicing for several more years.
An interview conducted by a reporter for The Capital Times while he was in Madison attending the 50th anniversary of his graduation from medical school was published on Sunday, June 22, 1941, and reprinted in the Iola Herald on Thursday, June 26, 1941, revealed some astonishing and interesting facts.
“There were hundreds of alumni back on the University of Wisconsin campus Saturday (on June 21, 1941),” the reporter stated, “but the one happiest to 'see' old friends, was a 71-year-old blind man from Iola, Wis., who played on the first Badger football team back in 1889. Dr. Truman E. Loope lost his eyesight after catching a severe cold at the Wisconsin-Minnesota football game in Madison in 1928, but he had a grand time as the class of 1891 held its reunion Saturday.”
Side 2
“I remember how football started at the University,” Dr. Loope stated to the reporter. “Charley Meyers went east, heard about it and came back wanting to have a team. I remember Meyers and Bill Blackburn and I talked about it all through one chemistry laboratory session. We had a hard time getting players. No one paid much attention to us, and some thought we were crazy. But we got 11 fellows together. We chipped in, bought canvas jackets and pants, and then got red stocking caps for headgear. We used old newspapers for padding.
“Not a single one of us had seen a game when we played the first time in Milwaukee against the Milwaukee Athletic Club. They had former college players from the east and how they licked us! Our mustaches were dragging on the ground when we came home,” Dr. Loope continued. “But we got better as we went along. We thought we were pretty good the next year when we beat Whitewater Normal 108-0, but then we played Minnesota the last game of the year and they beat us 61-0.”
Recalling the last time he saw a football game, Dr. Loope recounted: “I came down here in 1928 to see Wisconsin and Minnesota on a raw cold day. I could see fairly well then, but I caught cold on the way home and when I got over the cold my eyes were sealed up tight. Since then I only see the games we used to play.”
(Notable Persons • Sports) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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What is believed to be one of the last pitched battles between the Ojibwe and Dakota ended near this marker about 1860. Some Dakota hunters found a party of Ojibwe encroaching on Dakota grounds. They attacked, killing several Ojibwe and driving the rest to a settler's house. The settler's wife was able to drive the Dakota away with her broom, since they wanted no trouble with the settlers.
As the ninth largest springs in Texas and the largest springs in Kinney County, Las Moras Spring is significant due to its location and invaluable natural resources. Moras, meaning “mulberries” in one Spanish translation, refer to the mulberry trees found along Las Moras bank. The spring discharges an average of 12-14 million gallons per day. Archaeological objects such as flint points and burned-rock middens demonstrated that prehistoric people frequented Las Moras. In historic periods, the area was occupied by Coahuilitecan Indians, hunter-gatherer tribes in the Lower Pecos region, Apache, and Comanche. These groups stopped at Las Moras Spring while on trails into Mexico.
Allegheny Country Club
Shields Presbyterian Church
In 1846 Daniel van Allen, a Chatham merchant, laid out a town plot on land purchased from Jared Lindsley, the first settler (1825) on the site of Dresden. By 1849 the erection of a steam sawmill, and the operation a grist-mill in the neighbouring Dawn Institute Settlement founded by Josiah Henson, provided the basis for a thriving community in this area. A post office named “Dresden” was opened in 1854. The region’s timber resources and the navigation facilities afforded by the Sydenham River fostered industrial growth. A county by-law of 1871 incorporated Dresden as a village with a population of about 750. Ten years later it became a town.
While digging Hawks Nest Tunnel in early 1930's, hundreds of the mostly black, migrant workforce contracted acute silicosis from silica dust and later died. Many were buried in secret, unmarked graves to the north. In 1971, the bodies were reburied nearby. The tragic event is one of the worst disasters in American history.
This Memorial honors an estimated 764 tunnel workers who died from mining a 3.8 mile tunnel through Gauley Mountain to divert water from the New River to a hydroelectric plant near Gauley Bridge in 1930-31. The tunnel cut through almost pure silica in some areas and exposed the unprotected workers to silica dust that quickly caused acute silicosis, a fatal lung disease.
Summersville was established in 1820 and made the county seat. Nicholas County, which was settled about 1785, was crossed by the Pocahontas Trail which led from the Greenbrier Valley to the valley of the Great Kanawha.
Two miles east stands the Old Harmony Church, built in 1819. In this church in 1829, John Mitchell and David Smith organized the first Methodist Protestant Church. Mitchell was its first pastor. Near the churchyard is his grave.
Settled in 1814 and known 
(Skeels burying ground) 
1917-1918 [eagle] 1941-1945 
The houses at #20 & #24 Mine St. were home to members of the Fulper family during the 19th & early 20th centuries. During the 1910s, a house at #26 was moved to Park Ave. & #24 was moved about 30' west to accommodate factory expansion & construction of the current house at #20. This house originally featured an open-air roof garden & Fulper pottery tile decoration inside & out. Both houses are currently used for commercial purposes.
Home of Fulper Pottery President William Hill Fulper II & his wife, the former Eta Pearce. Originally built in the early 1800s, the home was completely remodeled in 1924 in the Mediterranean Villa style. It was decorated inside with hundreds of Fulper tiles for flooring, & also Fulper Egyptian tiles & scarabs, which still exist as architectural details today. The larger Fulper tiles set into the exterior of the house can still be seen encircling the second story of the house.
Here died on January 7 1943, at the age of 87, the great Yugoslav American scientist inventor Nikola Tesla whose discoveries in the field of alternating current advanced the United States and the rest of the world into the modern industrial era.
