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Racine ( / rəˈsiːn, reɪ -/ rə-SEEN, ray-) [8] is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River. [9] Racine is situated 22 miles (35 km) south of Milwaukee and approximately 60 miles (100 km) north of Chicago.
August 11, 1987. The Old Main Street Historic District in Racine, Wisconsin is an area including a section of Main Street and which is roughly bounded by Second St., Lake Ave., Fifth St., and Wisconsin Ave. It is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) area with elements dating back to 1847. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
42°47′28″N 88°15′45″W. / 42.791111°N 88.2625°W / 42.791111; -88.2625 ( Elam Beardsley Farmhouse) Waterford. Italianate-styled farmhouse with hip roofs and walls of cobblestone and split-faced fieldstone, with cut-stone quoins, built about 1855. Beardsley was one of the first settlers of Racine County, arriving over 20 ...
Johnson Wax Headquarters. / 42.71361°N 87.79083°W / 42.71361; -87.79083. Johnson Wax Headquarters is the world headquarters and administration building of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin. Designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the company's president, Herbert F. "Hib" Johnson, the building was constructed from ...
1st. Website. www .racinecounty .com. Racine County ( / rəˈsiːn, reɪ -/ rə-SEEN, ray-) is a county in southeastern Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, its population was 197,727, [1] making it Wisconsin's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Racine. [2] The county was founded in 1836, then a part of the Wisconsin Territory.
Horlick Field, located on the north side of Racine, Wisconsin, in the United States, is a 5,000-seat football stadium and a baseball park enclosed within stone walls and chain fences. The land for the field was donated by William Horlick, the inventor of malted milk. [2] It was designed in 1907 by Walter Dick, who also designed the North Beach ...
As of 2011, 13 counties had elected county executives: Brown, Chippewa, Dane, Fond du Lac, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Portage, Racine, Sawyer, Waukesha, and Winnebago. 23 had an appointed county administrator, 34 had an appointed administrative coordinator, and 2 had neither an executive nor an administrator.
Washington Park High School (also known as Park or Racine Park High School) is a public, four-year high school in Racine, Wisconsin, USA, with an enrollment of 1,500 students. Its school colors are blue and orange. The school's mascot, the panther, was adopted by the Class of 1949, reportedly because of a nearby Native American effigy mound in ...