NE of jct. of Wood Ave. and General Mitchell Blvd., Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center grounds, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. County/parish: Milwaukee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 04, 1993. NRIS 93001617.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Soldiers' Home Reef, also known as Rocky Point, National Military Asylum Reef, or Veterans' Hill is a fossilized coral reef rock formation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The reef formation was discovered by geologist Increase A. Lapham in the 1830s. It and other fossilized coral reefs that he discovered were the first geological reef formations described in North America, and are among the first described in the world. This reef was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106779887