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La Crosse Public Library
staff selected the following subjects to highlight from the La
Crosse Area Clipping File. While these include just a taste
of the vast materials available at the Library, we invite you
to please contact us with any specific question you may have
about the La Crosse area. Our thanks to the La Crosse Tribune for
their cooperation in bringing you these materials. We
tried to create printable images and the paper size and orientation
are given after the title of the article.
Because
these are links to images, your web browser (e.g. Internet
Explorer 7.0+) may automatically shrink the images. You can
then leave your cursor over the image and a tool bar will appear
and you can then resize the image.
Grandad Bluff
Grandad Bluff, the tallest bluff in
the area, has been a focal point of the La Crosse community. Limestone
rock was quarried from the bluff and this served as a source of
building material for many years. However, when the property was
about to be sold for large scale quarrying, La Crosse citizens
were outraged. A prominent family, Joseph & Irene Hixon, bought
the property in 1909 holding it in trust until it was donated as
park to the city of La Crosse in 1912.During this time, local citizens,
lead by Mrs. G. C. Hixon, raised $15,000 to purchase the property
and to help build public roads. Along with this purchase was some
property below the bluff which became the nucleus of Hixon Forest.
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