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In and Around Sac Prairie


Click on any of the "thumbnail" images below to view it
in its original size.
t-birthplace.gif (15914 bytes) August Derleth's birthplace
t-home.gif (17173 bytes) August Derleth's boyhood home.
t-hshop.gif (11006 bytes) The old harness shop on Water Street as it appears today
t-insidehshop.gif (15468 bytes) A peek inside the harness shop -- now Hugo Schwenker's woodworking shop
t-etheater.gif (12225 bytes) The old Electric Theater
t-trestle.gif (7198 bytes) The old trestle bridge over the Wisconsin River that Derleth mentioned so often
t-trestle2.gif (15229 bytes) The trestle bridge seen from the river
t-sandbars.gif (17609 bytes) Sandbars on the Wisconsin near the August Derleth Bridge
t-panorama.gif (6800 bytes) A panoramic view of Sauk City seen from the east bank of the river
t-breunighill.gif (16817 bytes) The river from the west bank with Breunig Hill, where Derleth often hiked, in the background
t-marker.gif (8515 bytes) The August Derleth historical marker near Derleth Park, newly refurbished in 2000.
"Place of Hawks" - Derleth's house on the edge of Sauk City, Wisconsin

Sign at the entrance to Derleth Park in Sauk City.

Outside "Augie's Room" at Leystra's Restaurant in Sauk City.
August Derleth's grave site in the St. Aloysius Cemetery across from his home.
Inscribed on the monument are these words from Henry David Thoreau's Walden:

I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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