It is helpful to link local history with regional and national history.

1. Create a time line or sequence line giving the history of the land on which your school is located.

2. Include information about historical geology.

3. Add information about the earliest people who lived in the area.

4. Identify significant explorers, wars fought, boundary changes, and settlement of immigrants and others.

5. Examine this list of events related to the Medford Area Elementary School in Medford, Wisconsin.

6. Make a list for your own school.

Glaciers covered Wisconsin

Native Americans- Huron, Menomonie, Sauk, Kickapoo, and Ojibwa

1634 - Jean Nicolet, a French explorer, landed on the Green Bay shore.

1673 - Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette traveled through the Wisconsin region.

1712 - War between French and Fox Indians broke out. Both wanted control of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, the region's chief water route.

1740 - The French defeated the Fox Indians - (Wisconsin a part of France - New France)

1754 - French and Indian War began. This war was fought between Great Britain and France over rival claims to America.

1763 - England received the Wisconsin region from France under terms of the Treaty of Paris. France lost Canada and all its possessions east of the Mississippi River.

1774 - The British passed the Quebec Act. Wisconsin became part of the province of Quebec.

1783 - Wisconsin became part of the United States. The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War. Under the treaty, Britain gave up all the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes.

1787 - Northwest Ordinance.

1788 - What is now Wisconsin was part of the Northwest Territory. That was a very big area of land that the United States got from Great Britain as part of a settlement ending the Revolutionary War. (1783). A territorial government was established in 1788 and many pioneers came to live in the Northwest Territory.

1800 - 1809 - Wisconsin formed part of the Indiana Territory.

1809 - 1818 - Wisconsin was part of the Illinois Territory.

1818 - 1836 - Wisconsin was part of the Michigan Territory.

1832 - The Indians made their last stand in Wisconsin against the white people in the Black Hawk War of l832.

1836 - Congress created the Wisconsin Territory.

1837 - Chippewa Indians gave up the right to their land in the Taylor County area.

1848 - May 29, Wisconsin became the 30th state.

1854 - Taylor County was surveyed

1857 - Paul Whitefish, Chief of the Chippewa tribe, was born. (Father Zow-sko-kisch; Mother Sophia)

1862 - May 20 - The Homestead Act was passed.

1872 - Settlement of Europeans began in Taylor County.

1873 - Lawrence Johnson homesteaded the land on which the grade school stands

1874 - Spring - Mrs. Christine Johnson, Carrie, and Pete came to join Lawrence Johnson.

1874 - October 7 - Tom Johnson - First white boy in Taylor County born on property now owned by Kuses.

1917 - August 11 - Paul Whitefish died.

1917 - Mrs. Johnson sells land on which the grade school stands to the Albert and Ella Resech.

1929 - Joseph and Minnie Kress get the land on which the grade school stands.

1959 - Joe and Edna Sauer get the land on which the grade school stands.

1974 - Land sold so a grade school could be built on it.