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Some time before recorded history, people in Wisconsin's Driftless Area climbed partway up a bluff above a river and carved marks on a sheltered spot in a sandstone wall. Some of the marks are indecipherable, but others depict animals: a fish, a deer or elk, a thunderbird, a heron or crane, a buffalo, a lizard, and a deer or antelope. The ...
Thunderbird petroglyph at Twin Bluff. Before white settlement, before loggers and explorers, the area that is now Juneau County was the home of Native Americans who left behind artifacts like the thunderbirds etched on the wall at Twin Bluffs [3] and the Gee's Slough mounds outside New Lisbon.
Thunderbirds carved in sandstone wall at Twin Bluff, Juneau County, Wisconsin, by prehistoric artist(s) American science historian and folklorist Adrienne Mayor and British historian Tom Holland have both suggested that indigenous thunderbird stories are based on discoveries of pterosaur fossils by Native Americans. [13] [14]
Location of Juneau County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Juneau County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Juneau County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which ...
United States historic place Cranberry Creek Archeological District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Cranberry Creek Archaeological District Location Address restricted Nearest city New Miner, Wisconsin Area 140 acres (57 ha) NRHP reference No. 84003689 Added to NRHP July 19, 1984 Cranberry Creek Archeological District, also known as Cranberry Creek Mound Group ...
Mill Bluff State Park is a state park in west-central Wisconsin, United States.It is located in eastern Monroe and western Juneau counties, near the village of Camp Douglas.A unit of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, the park protects several prominent sandstone bluffs 80 feet (24 m) to 200 feet (61 m) high that formed as sea stacks 12,000 years ago in Glacial Lake Wisconsin.
The six family members who died in a Wisconsin house fire were a former pastor, two of his daughters and three of his granddaughters, authorities and church officials said. The Juneau County ...
Necedah National Wildlife Refuge is a 43,696-acre (176.83 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northern Juneau County, Wisconsin near the village of Necedah.It was established in 1939 and is famous as the northern nesting site for reintroduction of an eastern United States population of the endangered whooping crane.