National Register of Historic Places

Lemonweir Glyphs

Kildare, Juneau County, Wisconsin
Listed
November 4, 1993
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
93001173

About this property

The Lemonweir Glyphs (or petroglyphs) are a set of carvings by early Native Americans near the Lemonweir River in Juneau County, Wisconsin. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Some time before recorded history, people in Wisconsin's Driftless Area climbed partway up a bluff above a river and carved marks on a sheltered spot in a sandstone wall. Some of the marks are indecipherable, but others depict animals: a fish, a deer or elk, a thunderbird, a heron or crane, a buffalo, a lizard, and a deer or antelope. The largest animal is twelve inches tall. The deepest carvings are nearly a half inch deep and the shallowest are only faintly visible. Some of the images have been damaged by modern initial-cutters. Nearby, more marks are cut into a seven-foot sandstone boulder. The top and one side are cut with various arrangements of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines - all abstract, with no animals.

Location

Kildare, Juneau County, Wisconsin

Categories

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When was Lemonweir Glyphs listed on the National Register?

Lemonweir Glyphs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 4, 1993.

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Lemonweir Glyphs is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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