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The city of Wisconsin Dells was founded in 1856 by the Wisconsin Hydraulic Company, a dam-building and real estate investment business. The town was originally named Kilbourn City for Byron Kilbourn , the president of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Company , which was then preparing to build a railroad across the Wisconsin River to connect ...
In 1837 Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown (present-day Westown), which rivaled with Solomon Juneau's Juneautown (present-day East Town) and George Walker's Walker's Point. He was a key figure in the Milwaukee Bridge War in 1845. In 1846, the three combined and formed the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of ...
Coordinates: 43.6428°N 89.7885°W. Dells of the Wisconsin River. The Dells of the Wisconsin River, also called the Wisconsin Dells (from Old English “ dæl ”, modern English “dale”), meaning “valley”, is [1] a 5-mile (8-km) gorge on the Wisconsin River in south-central Wisconsin, USA. It is noted for its scenery, in particular for ...
Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park Resort is a theme park and water park resort complex in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.The resort is themed after Ancient Greece, particularly its mythology and gods, and is named after the mountain in Greece where those gods were said to live. Mt. Olympus features an indoor and outdoor water park (home to America's tallest waterslide) and amusement park rides, and ...
The Republican Party was founded in Wisconsin in ... The highest temperature ever recorded in the state was in the Wisconsin Dells, on July 13, 1936, where it reached ...
The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
Wisconsin Dells: 2012 [84] Potosi Brewery: Potosi: 2008 Founded in 1852, closed in 1972, restored and reopened in 2008. Brewpub and site of the National Brewery Museum. Public Craft Brewing Company Kenosha: 2012 Brewery and taproom. [85] R'Noggin Brewing Co Kenosha: 2016 [86] Littleport Brewing Company Racine: 2020
9,217 acres (37.30 km 2) Elevation. 1,329 ft (405 m) [ 1 ] Established. 1911. Governing body. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Devil's Lake State Park is a state park located in the Baraboo Range in eastern Sauk County, just south of Baraboo, Wisconsin. It is around thirty-five miles northwest of Madison, and is on the western edge of ...