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Lake Monona is a freshwater drainage lake in Dane County, Wisconsin, surrounded on three sides by the city of Madison, Wisconsin, and on the south east side by the city of Monona, Wisconsin. [1] It is the second-largest of a chain of four lakes along the Yahara River (also including Mendota , Kegonsa , and Waubesa ) in the area and forms the ...
Lake Mendota originated after the Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred approximately 15,000 years ago.Glacial ice, which had covered the Madison lakes (Lakes Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa, and Waubesa) [5] at a thickness of over 300 meters, began to retreat northwest about 14,000 years ago, damming a glacial lake near the City of Middleton that now serves as the source of water for Pheasant Branch ...
1569653 [3] Website. www.mymonona.com. Monona is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of the state capital, Madison, the city lies on the southeastern shore of Lake Monona, from which it takes its name. The population was 8,624 at the 2020 census.
Monona Terrace. Part of the Madison skyline as seen from Lake Monona, with Monona Terrace in the middle and the capitol directly behind it. Monona Terrace (officially the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center) is a convention center on the shores of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.
82000649 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. June 30, 1982. The Brittingham Boathouse is a historic boathouse along a bay of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin. Built in 1909–10, it is the city's oldest extant public park building. In 1982 the boathouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. [ 2 ]
Madison Isthmus. Coordinates: 43°05′01″N 89°22′18″W. 1920 Madison Wisconsin Automobile Blue Book. The Madison Isthmus is where the downtown and near east portion of Madison, Wisconsin is situated, between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. It is located between Madison's northeast side to the east and the University of Wisconsin campus to ...
The city is located on an isthmus and lands surrounding five lakes—Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa. Madison was founded in 1836 [6] and is named after American Founding Father and President James Madison. As the state capital, Madison is home to government chambers including the Wisconsin State Capitol ...
U.S. Highway 12 (US 12 or Highway 12) in the U.S. state of Wisconsin runs east–west across the western to southeast portions of the state. It enters from Minnesota running concurrently with Interstate 94 (I-94) at Hudson, parallels the Interstate to Wisconsin Dells, and provides local access to cities such as Menomonie, Eau Claire, Black River Falls, Tomah, and Mauston.