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"The grave was dug large enough to accommodate the horse stand up on four feet, just as Roberts had remembered him during all of those 28 years. It is said that the burial was first located in a field which eventually was put to the plow. At this time another and final resting place was made for States Rights alongside the Old Military Road where strangers and the curious stop to ponder the lonely and strange tombstone with its even stranger epitaph."
- section from Roots Web website

Wisconsin Street

The ghost of a woman has been observed pushing a baby stroller.

Portage UFO Sightings

"I immediately woke up my wife screaming 'Look UFO!' And she saw this thing also. She was shocked. I jumped out of my bed and rushed for video camera."
- section from UFO Wisconsin report

Haunted Prison

"The Surgeon's Quarters is the only remaining building of the Historical Ft. Winnebago, used from 1828 to 1845. The Surgeon's Quarters overlooks the site where Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette left the Fox River at the east end of Wauona Trail in 1673. In 1828, soldiers came to erect the fort, the middle link in a chain of three forts along the Fox-Wisconsin waterway."
- section from the Portage Official Site

  Fort Winnebago
W8687 State Road 33 - East
Portage, WI  53901
(608) 742-2949

hours:
May 15 thru October 15  (daily)  10am – 4pm

"The idea to connect the Fox and Wisconsin rivers was developed in the 1820's and 1830's. The canal in its current location was dug by hand from 1849-1851 and then improved after the Civil War by the Army Corps of Engineers.  The canal was finished in 1876 and at its peak for recreational boat traffic in 1908 with 1461 lockages at the Fort Winnebago lock going in to the Fox River and 127 lockages at the Portage lock."
- section from the Main Street website

"Built at the conclusion of the Black Hawk War by the United States Government in 1832...Located on its original site above the canal built almost twenty years later, the house is furnished with American antiques dating no later than 1833..."
- section from the Explore Wisconsin website

  located off Highway 33 east of Portage on Agency House Road
(608) 742-6362

hours:
May 15 thru October 15  (daily)  10am – 4pm
(Sundays)  11am – 4pm

"...the Museum at the Portage was established to showcase displays relevant to the history of the city. The Portage Historical Society works continually to honor the rich history of Portage, the third oldest settlement in Wisconsin.  Included in the permanent collection displayed at various times during the year are photographs and artifacts representing historical events in the city's history."
- section from the Portage Official Site

  Breese residence
804 Macfarlane Road
Portage, WI  53901
(608) 742-6682

hours:
(Saturday and Sunday)  1pm –  4pm

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