MILITARY · HISTORICAL MARKER

Pheasant Branch Encampment

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On the night of July 20th during the Black Hawk War of 1832, Sac Indian leader Black Hawk and his followers camped near this location. Desperate for food and frightened by the approaching military, they fled northwest toward the Wisconsin River the next morning.
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