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1 Five Man-Made Waterfalls location:   Montello aquatic oddity The old Montello Granite Quarry, which provided blocks of the finest red granite from 1879 to 1977, has been converted to a city park complete with waterfalls and a tiny church. The church is most likely placed there as a symbol of an actual church that once overlooked the quarry site until it was removed to expand production.   Montello Granite Park & Daggett Park Highway 23 (Montello Street) & Highway 22 Montello, WI 53949	Wisconsin Historical Markers wisconsinhistoricalmarkers. blogspot.com Portal Wisconsin www.portalwisconsin.org Adventures in Travel lauriesportraits.wordpress.com Tree Rings wellerharvey.wordpress.com State Trunk Tour www.statetrunktour.com
2 Pioneer Statues Oxen Statues in front of Pioneer Restaurant location:   Westfield roadside oddities This grizzly, coonskin-capped and buckskin-clad fellow has a pair of large oxen nearby in case some emergency plowing is needed before your meal. Another pioneer fellow, looking more like an old prospector than Daniel Boone, stands atop a sign for the restaurant on an adjacent street. Westfield's motto is "where the pioneer spirit lives on." In late September, the town hosts the Westfield Rendezvous Days at the county fair grounds. Sounds like a good place to get a smoked turkey leg.   242 N. Pioneer Rd. Westfield, WI 53964	Official Site www.pioneerrestaurant.net Roadside Architecture 1. Pioneer www.agilitynut.com 2. Oxen www.agilitynut.com Roadside America www.roadsideamerica.com New Low www.newlow.org book: "Oddball Wisconsin" by Jerome Pohlen Chicago Review Press, Inc. (2001) page(s) 64 – 65 buy it at buy it at Barnes & Noble.com book: "Strange Wisconsin" by Linda S. Godfrey Trails Books (2007) page(s) 160 buy it at buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
3 Bowling Ball Rosary location:   Princeton (Green Lake County) religious shrine / yard art / scientific oddity Ken & Eunice Soda's yard has become a bit of a tourist attraction for the local devout. Rather than going with the tacky designation of something like "Paul Bunyan's rosary," the bowling ball-based creation is displayed in a tasteful manner, towering over the comparatively-diminutive statue of the Holy Virgin. A second bowling ball sculpture stands next to the driveway.   W 928 County Road J Princeton, WI 54968	Cabin Countess www.thecabincountess.com Madison Catholic Herald www.madisoncatholicherald.org book: "Wisconsin Curiosities" by Michael Feldman and Diana Cook Globe Pequot Press  (2nd ed., 2004) page(s) n/a (3rd ed., 2009) page(s) 85 – 87 buy it at buy it at Barnes & Noble.com
4 Barn Quilts of Marquette County Hidden History Murals location:   all over marquette county barn art / public art Barn quilts may appear in several other Wisconsin counties but, here in Marquette, the colorful designs gracing the exteriors of farm structures are joined hand-in-hand with various other larger-than-life art projects that range from history-themed murals to a memorial for a locally-famous black bear. The official website offers a map with locations of all quilts and murals.	Official Site www.barnquiltsandmurals.com University of Wisconsin Extension marquette.uwex.edu Neshkoro official site "Mural Village" www.neshkorowisconsin.com Marquette County tourism page www.marquettenow.com Portage Daily Register article "Art in the open: A barn quilt and history mural project looks to bring art to a local landscape" or archived (here)
5 Butterfly Barn location:   Oxford barn art Highly visible on the Sonnenberg's barn is a stylized butterfly quilt design with a kaleidoscope of butterfly cutout figures fluttering away nearby. All the butterflies depicted are types seen on the property.   W6835 County Road D Oxford, WI 53952	Marquette County Barn Quilts www.barnquiltsandmurals.com TYWKIWDBI "The barn of two butterfly enthusiasts" tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com

1 Wisconsin's Largest Tree location:   Montello champion tree West of downtown Montello, in the front yard of the Colonial Revival style Le Maison Granit (Granite Mansion), stands a gigantic cottonwood tree. At 138 feet tall and 23.2 feet in circumference, it is the largest tree of any species growing in Wisconsin. To explain it in a way we can all understand, the tree is as tall as 25 Vicki Lawrences (Mama from "Mama's Family), who is 5'6", standing atop each other's heads. Also, the tree's trunk is large enough to wrap 4.2 Vicki Lawrences around it. Now can you picture it?   The tree can be seen next door to the Courthouse on Highway 23 (Underwood Avenue), just west of downtown Montello.	State Trunk Tour www.statetrunktour.com Wisconsin DNR (2.58MB PDF file) dnr.wi.gov Journal Sentinel Online article "Tall, bark and definitely handsome" or archived (here)

1 Fireballs and Streaks of Bright Light (1998) ufo location:  Neshkoro "The explosion seemed to be very high in the sky, and no report was heard. Within less than five minutes the 'Stealth' came back overhead from a south-east direction and proceeded north-west." – section from UFO Wisconsin 06-23-1998 report	UFO Wisconsin www.ufowisconsin.com
2 Oxford UFO Sightings ufo location:  Oxford "The light was hovering, and after a short time, reddish , blueish and white lights started moving in a circular fashion.The lights then "jumped" both upwards and to the North at speeds that a plane could not travel?" – section from UFO Wisconsin 01-07-2007 report	UFO Wisconsin www.ufowisconsin.com
3 Montello UFO Sightings ufo location:  Montello "The object, reddish orange in color, was moving at a high rate of speed, was moving from west to east and has no blinking lights and was not a falling object from space for it had no tail." – section from UFO Wisconsin 10-19-2001 report	UFO Wisconsin www.ufowisconsin.com
"Ghosts of America" Haunted Location Reports (take with a grain of salt) ghosts location:  STATEWIDE The reports on this site are presumably fiction, using random Wisconsin place names in the stories listed there. Even so, you might get a kick out of reading them. "An enormously chilling ghost was noticed stacking bricks on the water's edge of Buffalo Lake. The spirit spoke about revenging a murder. Several of the people who live in this town allege this ghost takes pleasure in scaring foolhardy people who come trying to find ghosts in Montello." – section from Ghosts of America website	Ghosts of America www.ghostsofamerica.com

1 Marquette County Historical Society Museum location:   Westfield museum "Take a walk through Marquette County’s historic past, brought to life in the Historical Society’s extensive collection of artifacts, dating from the area’s earliest pioneering days through the mid-twentieth century. The Museum’s collection is exhibited in three separate buildings: the newly constructed Kerst Exhibit Building, and two historic structures, a railroad section house containing memorabilia of earlier railroad days, and the Cochrane-Nelson House, a stately twostory home with high-ceilings and filigree woodwork constructed in 1903. It’s furnished from top to bottom with antiques and collectibles that were useful and fashionable when the county was young." – section from Marquette County tourism site   125 Lawrence Street Westfield, WI 53964 hours: (Wednesdays) 1pm – 4pm or by appointment / (also open the second and fourth Saturdays of June, July, August) 1pm – 4pm	Official Site www.marqcohistorical.org Marquette County tourism page www.marquettenow.com Marquette County official page www.co.marquette.wi.us

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