DAR members visit historic cemetery markers

The plaque at Fort Atkinson

Members of the Hannah Lee Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution have visited three Northeast Iowa sites in the area where DAR had placed historical markers.

The group went on a tour that included Fort Atkinson, Waucoma and Westgate.

In 1840 the government established Fort Atkinson to protect the Winnebago Indians from the more hostile Sioux to the north and Sac and Fox to the south.  By 1846 the soldiers were withdrawn to fight in the Mexican War and in 1849 the fort was completely abandoned.  The State of Iowa obtained the fort in 1921 and in 1924 the Iowa Society of DAR placed a historical marker at the site.  The original marker was lost but in 2010 a new bronze plate was set in place by members of Hannah Lee Chapter.  The marker is now on display within the museum at Fort Atkinson.
   
In addition, the group visited the Waucoma Cemetery, which has a plaque commemorating three local men who were killed in World War I, and the United Brethren Cemetery near Westgate, which has a plaque commemorating Angelina Webb Morehouse, who was the daughter of an American Revolutionary War patriot.