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Historical
Markers - Rock Co., WI
The
Black Hawk War
Wisconsin Official
Marker
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Next to Spring
Brook Bike Trail at Blackhawk Golf Course
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(west of the
clubhouse), Palmer Drive, Janesville
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Courtesy of
Kurt Wheeler, Rock County Planning & Development Agency
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- The Black Hawk War
- In April 1832, unhappy about their
forced relocation to Iowa and mis-
- advised by tribal chiefs, about
1,000 Sac, Fox and Kickapoo men, women and children followed
Sac war leader Black Hawk back to their Illinois home where the
Rock River meets the Mississippi. During May and June, Indian
raiding parties attacked homesteads and settlements in Illinois
and Michigan territories. At the May 21 Indian Creek raid, 15
settlers were killed and two sisters, the Hall girls captured.
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- Erected in 2001 [by the] State Historical
Society of Wisconsin
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©2006
ALHN-Rock Co., Wisconsin
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