While traveling through southern Wisconsin, I discovered a small hilltop park with a flagpole. I stopped to learn more and was captivated by the story behind the flag waving in the breeze.
During the Civil War, a log cabin was built on this hill as a recruiting station. The American flag flew proudly, visible for miles, inspiring local men to enlist. After the war, the cabin gradually disappeared, and the flag was no more. The hill, however, became known as Liberty Pole Hill, a lasting tribute to the original flagpole.
In 1966, Green County acquired the land and transformed it into a small park. Then, in 2010, a group of citizens erected a new flagpole, and the Stars and Stripes once again flies over southwestern Wisconsin. It’s amazing what you can learn by stopping a reading a sign in a park.
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