St. Feriole Island - Prairie du Chien Landmark

  • Address: 900 W Blackhawk Ave, Prairie Du Chien, WI 53821
  • Phone: +1 608 326 7207
  • Website:www.prairieduchien-wi.gov
St. Feriole Island
900 W Blackhawk Ave
Prairie Du Chien, WI 53821

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  • This 240-acre island on the east channel of the Mississippi River has a mix of habitats including beaches, floodplain forest and grassland. In the spring, floodwaters create mud flats ideal for migrating shorebirds. One may see American Avocets along the beach. A trail leads away from the parking... more on Travelwisconsin.com
  • An Indian village, a frontier fur-trading community for nearly a century and a half, a military post under three flags, a bustling river and railroad town of commercial fame during the third quarter of the nineteenth century, each of these successive tenures profited by the river location and the... more on Wisconsincentral.net
  • "St. Feriole Island, where the city began, has the greatest concentration of historic landmark properties in the country." So wrote Mary Bergin in 2004. "The Prairie du Chien terrace derives new interest not only because of the antiquity of its occupance and the variety of its cultural succession... more on Wisconsincentral.net

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  • www.prairieduchien-wi.gov

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