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August Derleth's birthplace
August Derleth's boyhood home.
The old harness shop on Water Street as it appears
today
A peek inside the harness shop -- now Hugo
Schwenker's woodworking shop
The old Electric Theater
The old trestle bridge over the Wisconsin River
that Derleth mentioned so often
The trestle bridge seen from the river
Sandbars on the Wisconsin near the August Derleth
Bridge
A panoramic view of Sauk City seen from the east
bank of the river
The river from the west bank with Breunig Hill,
where Derleth often hiked, in the background
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.