Historic Homes & Buildings

• Fort Winnebago Surgeon's Headquarters
  W8687 State Road 33 • Portage, WI 53901
  608-742-2949
  This is the only building remaining from the original Fort Winnebago and it overlooks the site where Louis Joliet and Jacues Marquette left Fox River in 1673. The quarters have been restored and maintained. more...  map

• Historic Indian Agency House
  Indian Agency Road • Portage, WI 53901
  608-742-6362
  This restored site was once the workplace of John Kinzie and his family, the agent to the Winnebago nation in 1832. It has been completly restored and refurnished with antiques. more...  map

Historic Sites & Monuments

• Fox-Wisconsin Portage Site
  Wauona Trail Street • Portage, WI 53901
  608-742-6242, 800-474-2525
  This portage was originally a trading place of furs and supplies for hundreds of years until the treaty of 1828. more...  map

• Portage Canal
  Downtown Portage
  608-742-6242, 800-474-2525
  This canal was dug using shovels and wheelbarrows in 1838 and was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1876. The canal was 2.3 miles long, 75 feet wide, 7 feet deep, and served as a connection between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River. more...  map

• Portage Canal Industrial Historic District
  608-742-6242, 800-474-2525
  This beautiful historic district offers a varietyof sites and monuments for various past events. Call for information. more...  map

• Society Hill Historic District
  Downtwon Portage
  608-742-3315
  The Society Hill Residential Historic District consists of about 137 primary buildings, some as old as the 1850's. The large homes of two pulitzer prize winners are also within this vicinity.  map

Museums & Galleries

• American Legion State Headquarters & Museum
  2930 American Legion Drive • Portage, WI 53901
  608-745-1090
  This building houses the American Legion headquarters as well as a museum full of plaques, statues, uniforms, medals, photos, and documents from the history of Wisconsin's American Legion. more...  map

• Museum at the Portage
  804 MacFarlane Road • Portage, WI 53901
  608-742-6682
  This local Portage museum offers displays and exhibits relative to the history of the city as well as displays for Native American settlements, Fort Winnebago, the Indian Agency House, the Surgeons Quarters, and the Portage Canal. more...  map

Science & Technology

• MacKenzie Environmental Center
  W7303 County Road • Poynette, WI 53955
  608-635-8110
  View deer, buffalo and wolves, interpretive exhibits, nature trails, observation tower, and an arboretum.  map