Interpretive Signs
Interpretive signage will guide you through Pope Farm Conservancy to enhance your visit.
Geological History
- Glacier story (what a glacier is)
- Green Bay Lobe (where the glacier went)
- Recessional moraine: Forming the Hills (what the glacier did)
- Watersheds (three watersheds come together, what they are)
- Ice Age History 15,000 Years ago (rendering of Ice Age)
- Stone Fence (why is it here)
- Rhyolite (its glacial journey)
- Black Earth Creek Valley (what it looked like 15-12,000 years ago)
- Recessional Moraine (how they were formed)
Human History
- Paleo Indian (history)
- Archaic Indian (history)
- Woodland Indian (history)
- Ho-Chunk Indian (history)
- What a View (artist rendering of Native Americans at this location)
- 12,000 Years of Human History (campsites, trails, burial sites, and artifacts)
- Stories from a Stone Fence (how rocks used historically)
- Native American Garden
Prairie Restoration & Crop Fields
- Prairie Restoration
- Paddock Oak Savanna
- Timothy
- Alfalfa Field
- Winter Wheat Field
- Corn Field
- Soybean Field
- Oat Field
- Saving our Soil (controlling erosion)
CCC Spillway
- The CCC Spillway (how it works to control erosion)
- Building the Spillway (history of the Spillway and who built it)
- Who was the CCC? (The Civilian Conservation Corp and who they were)
Immigrants & Settlers
- Hard Work (settlers building the stone fence)
- History of the Town of Middleton (1911 plat map, photos, and stories)
- German Immigration to Wisconsin (maps, and names of German immigrants)
- German Immigration Log Cabin Site (artist rendering of this cabin 1880)
- Immigrant Life at this Location (what they did, and how they lived)