Hunting in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Homeschooling. Wisconsin Photo Gallery. Wisconsin Butterfly Gallery. Wisconsin Resorts. Wisconsin RV Parks. French explorer, Jean Nicolet, landed at Green Bay in In a French trading post and Catholic mission were established near present-day Ashland.
However, Great Britain retained actual control until after the War of In , Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. This act allowed settlers of the two states to decide the question of slavery in their state. Many Wisconsinites opposed slavery and held a meeting to protest the possibility of slavery within the new states.
This meeting in Ripon, led to the foundation of the Republican Party. Wisconsin is known as the Badger State after the habits of early miners in the region who either lived in mine shafts or dug their homes out of the sides of hills -- just like Badgers do.
Wisconsin is the dairy capital of the United States and is sometimes called "America's Dairyland. Wisconsin has over 14, lakes and 7, streams and rivers. Milwaukee's Summerfest is the nation's largest music festival, with over 2, performers.
Milwaukee is home of Harley Davidson Motorcycles. Door County has five state parks and miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan. In the first hydroelectric plant in the United States was built at Fox River. Wisconsin snowmobile trails total 15, miles of signed and groomed snow highways. Barbie hails from the fictional town of Willows, Wis.
Soviet satellite Sputnik IV fell out of orbit in and while most of it burned up on re-entry, a pound piece of debris crashed to the ground in Manitowoc. The original piece of Sputnik was returned to the Soviets but the Rahr-West Art Museum has a replica of it on display and Manitowoc celebrates Sputnikfest each September. Wisconsin banned the sale and use of margarine from to , and while the ban was lifted, some restrictions on margarine remain today. The name was recorded in by French explorer Jacques Marquette.
Over time, the word was Anglicized into Ouisconsin, Wiskonsan and finally into its current spelling and pronunciation.
The Onion, arguably the most famous news satire organization, was humbly started by two University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson, in The State even holds an international festival every September where people get a chance to look at the process more closely and sample drinks and foods that contain the product. The state symbol of Wisconsin, the badger, does not refer to the animal as most people think.
Rather, it refers to the lead miners of the s who traveled for work and even dug tunnels to find somewhere to sleep and stay warm—in the same way as a badger. Wisconsin prohibited the sale and use of margarine starting from to Although the ban has since been lifted, there are still some restrictions that remain on margarine. Today, it is still illegal for restaurants to serve their customers margarine in place of butter unless the customer requests for it.
The river used to be referred to as Meskousing by the aboriginal Algonquian-speaking tribes. Jacques Marquette, a French explorer, first recorded the name in With time, the word turned into Ouisconsin, Wiskonsan before it finally took the current spelling and pronunciation forms. This likely refers to the sandstone formations found in the river. The largest wooly mammal to have ever been excavated was discovered in Kenosha. Today Milwaukee Public Museum has a replica of this which you can watch at any time.
There are no tall physical features in Wisconsin. The fact that the highest natural point in the state is a hill and not a mountain says a lot about it.
To make up for leveling the landscape, glaciations have left behind some of the most breathtaking valleys, prairies, fertile farm fields, and rolling hills. Entry is free for all. Famed for her dairy production, Wisconsin is the no. It is the no. Wisconsin boasts the largest dairy cattle per square kilometer than any other state. Unsurprisingly, Wisconsin is the only American state offering a Master Cheese maker program. Madison was not the original capital of the state. Rather, the original was Belmont.
There is a historic park to the western side of Belmont Mound State Park where you can see a lodging house and Council House for the legislators at that time. Most people think it is Milwaukee or Madison but clearly neither of these is. Green Bay can be traced to a French explorer by the name of Jean Nicolet who began a small trading shop way back in EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, which is the largest meeting of aviators in the world, has, since , been held right here every summer.
During the event, which takes one week, the Oshkosh control tower is the busiest on earth as close to 15, aircrafts land at the airport, plus approximately , visitors. All of these come here to get a glimpse of the thrilling aerobatic displays and flybys from contemporary and vintage military aircraft.
The Wisconsin Dells boasts the most number of water parks in a single area in the whole world. Wisconsin has more than 15, lakes and 13, miles 21, kilometers of navigable streams and rivers. It used to be partially housed in a structure designed by Eero Saarinen in as a war memorial. Right from the start, the 2 lower floors were designated for art gallery use. The museum sees more than , visitors a year. The widely celebrated House on the Rock , located between Spring Green and Dodgeville cities, is a tourist attraction that was opened in It consists of architecturally discrete rooms, gardens, shops, and streets, and was designed by Jordan Alex Jr.
It sits atop Deer Shelter Rock, which is a rock column approximately 18x21x61 meters. The electric guitar you see today is popular, thanks to Les Paul, a Wisconsinite. His legacy continues to live on especially with contemporary interpretations of Gibson Les Paul.
In the first hydroelectric plant in the world was built at Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. China , Brazil , Canada , the United States , and Russia are the five largest producers of hydropower.
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