Day Trip #5
Saturday, October 9, 2021
View from Mt. Hosmer Park in Lansing, IA looking South down the Mississippi valley.
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The boardwalk at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
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Sedrick and Lisa on the boardwalk bridge at Effigy Mounds National Monument.
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A pond between the Yellow River and Effigy Mounds National Monument.
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Villa Louis Historic Site in St. Feriole Island Park in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
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The Brisbois House on St. Feriole Island Park.
“This stone house began as one woman’s haven from a crumbling marriage. Jane Fisher married fur trader Joseph Rolette in 1818. Jane was 23 years younger than Joseph, but their marriage joined property from two wealthy families. Their relationship soured, and 1836 the couple signed a separation contract. Joseph agreed to build Jane this house and provide her a regular allowance of goods. In return, Jane agreed to separate without divorce and allowed Joseph to keep their real estate. In an era where the law forbade married women from holding property, the Wisconsin Supreme Court set a notable precedent by upholding Jane’s contract for a separate allowance.
In 1844, two years after Joseph died, Jane married Hercules Dousman and moved to his home. Jane gave this stone house to her cousin B.W. Brisbois. She had grown up with Brisbois, and he had helped Jane in her separation case.
The stone house remained in the Brisbois family until 1899. The Wisconsin Historical Society acquired it in 1958.”
Quote from posted sign at the site.
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The historic Dousman House is now a family owned and operated event center in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
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Prairie du Chien Visitors Center, St. Feriole Island.
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Fall foliage in downtown Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
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Sedrick and Lisa enjoying the fall flowers in St. Feriole Island Memorial Garden.
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Sedrick and Lisa enjoying the fall flowers in St. Feriole Island Memorial Garden.
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St. Germain Dit Gauthier-Coorough House circa 1840. St. Feriole Island.
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Dr. William Beaumont and Israel.
“Having read medicine and apprenticed under a doctor, when war broke out in 1812, Beaumont enlisted as a surgeon’s mate in the United States Army. He was assigned to the Sixth Infantry Regiment and saw action at York Canada.
After the war, Beaumont established a private practice in Plattsburgh, New York (Kyle’s birthplace) but re-entered the Army in December 1819. He was sent to Fort Mackinac as post surgeon. Here, he was to treat Alexis St. Martin and begin an association that defined both their lives.
In June 1822 St. Martin was accidentally shot in the upper left abdomen. Beaumont cared for him. Not expected to live, St. Martin’s wound healed., though a permanent open hole remained in the stomach. Unable to work, Beaumont hired St. Martin as a live-in handyman. Transferred to Fort Niagara, St. Martin traveled with the Beaumont family, and in 1825, Beaumont began his experiments with St. Martin. Beaumont became the first person to observe human digestion as it occurred in the stomach.
Beaumont was assigned to Green Bay then Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. In 1829 St. Martin returned with his family to the Beaumont household and Beaumont resumed his experiments. In 1822/3 Beaumont conducted a third set of experiments with St. Martin on human digestion, then began work on publishing his observations in a book, Experiments in Observation on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
Israel was William and Deborah Beaumont’s youngest child, born while William was stationed in Prairie du Chien.”
Quote from posted sign at the site.
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“Aunt Marianne LaBuche was the community healer in Prairie du Chien when, in 1827, she was able to rescue her granddaughter who had been scalped in the Gagnier cabin during the Winnebago Uprising. She was preparing the baby for burial when she discovered that baby Louisa was still alive. Aunt Marianne was able to bandage & heal her wounds. The baby, Louisa, grew up to be 67 years old and had 13 children, leaving a living legacy for the community.”
Quote from posted sign at the site.
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Emma Big Bear.
“(Wa’ ka’ ja’ ze Winga, b. 1869, near Tomah, Wisconsin; d. 1968, Waukon, Iowa), a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) woman of the Bear tribal family, who walked in silence, kindness and humbleness, was the daughter of Chief Big Bear and Mary Blue Wing. She was the wife of Henry Holt (Floating in Air), and mother of Emmaline. As a direct descendant of Winnebago Chief Waukon Decorah, she instilled in her bloodline the fortitude to be honest, strong in beliefs and to march ahead, never complaining of the hardships she encountered and endured.
Outliving her husband and daughter, Emma Big Bear made a living by selling her black ash baskets, beaded jewelry and ginseng, and by accepting food and assistance offered by the caring, local people of McGregor and Marquette, Iowa. She didn’t wander far from the graves of her ancestors. She lived out her days as the last in the tradition of the ancestors who inhabited the prehistoric site near the Effigy Mounds sacred space along the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa.”
Quote from posted sign at the site.
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Fall foliage in the City of Marquette, Iowa. Make note of the photobomb by Sedrick in the bottom right corner.
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Immaculate Conception Church, Wexford. Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
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Immaculate Conception Church, Wexford. Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
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