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"Greetings from Mandalay Lounge and Bar, Hotel Racine; Racine, Wis. The Midwest's Newest and Finest. Delightfully cool and refreshing, with modern air conditioning - Distinctive Burmese surroundings. A showplace for discriminating people."
By the looks of things they discriminated against everybody ... bartenders, lounge lizards or patrons of any sort.
Tornado damage in our neighborhood - Eagle, Wisconsin
This is the house with the dresser and mirror - they got it on both sides.
Wisconsin Dells, WI (Columbia County)
Wisconsin Dells is a city in south-central Wisconsin, with a population of 2,678 people as of the 2010 census. It straddles four counties: Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. The city takes its name from the Dells of the Wisconsin River, a scenic, glacially formed gorge that features striking sandstone formations along the banks of the Wisconsin River. Together with the nearby village of Lake Delton, the city forms an area known as "The Dells", a popular Midwestern tourist destination.
Because of the scenery provided by the dells of the Wisconsin River, Kilbourn City quickly became a popular travel destination in the Midwest. In 1856, Leroy Gates began taking tourists on boat tours of the Wisconsin Dells. These tours were given using wooden rowboats until 1873 when the first steamboat, the Modocawanda, was used. In 1875, early landscape photographer H. H. Bennett established a studio in the city and took many photos of the sandstone formations in the dells, including stereoscopic views. Prints of these photographs were distributed across the United States, further enhancing the status of Kilbourn City as a destination for sightseers. Taking advantage of this, Bennett began offering to take souvenir pictures of visitors to the dells, becoming one of the first to capitalize on the area's burgeoning tourist trade. Today, the H. H. Bennett Studio is an historic site operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (1)
References (1) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Dells,_Wisconsin
Image from the Junior Middler Camp of the Diocese of Fond du Lac Summer Camp held at Waypost Camp, Hatley, Wisconsin June 27-July 1, 2021
L510's engineer peaks out to see where he is shoving to as they fill up one track with cars for WSOR at Ackerville.
Redwood Cottage in Lake Geneva (1885). It was built as a summer residence for Mrs. Robert Hall Baker using shingles from Californian Redwood trees. She was the daughter-in-law of Charles Minton Baker, who was district attorney for Walworth County and served in the Wisconsin Territorial Council. Robert Hall Baker served a term as mayor of Racine and also served in the Wisconsin State Senate. He was also a partner of the J. I. Case Company (today the Case Corporation). He died in 1882 and his wife built the 30-room house in his memory.
Wisconsin Badgers football fans outside the stadium in Madison prior to the first game of the 2011 season.
Scene along the Menominee River Drive in Wauwatosa Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb. The river and parkway constitute a wooded garden spot in a choice residential area. Kodachrome by Lane.
On May 14th, 2016, 509 students were eligible to participate in the Spring Commencement ceremonies. The Spring Commencement included the awarding of bachelor's and master's degrees to UW-Parkside students. Thelma A. Sias was the Commencement speaker, along with speeches from the Chancellor's Award Recipient, Tyler Farrell, and Regent Eve Hall. Congratulations to each individual that graduated today! We are proud of you all!
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These containers hauled potatoes from Central Wisconsin to Frito-Lay potato chip processing facilities.
nrhp # 71000038- Pendarvis is a historic site located in Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States. The site, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is made up of several 19th century cabins built by Cornish immigrants who came to Mineral Point to mine lead. Today the site is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and serves as a museum of Wisconsin's early lead mining history.
During the 1830s and 1840s, the area that today comprises southwest Wisconsin and northwest Illinois was rapidly populated as miners came from across the United States and Europe to work the region's abundant lead deposits. Several mining boomtowns sprang up in the region, including Galena, Illinois; Platteville, Wisconsin; and Mineral Point, the location of Pendarvis. During the height of the mining era, the population of Mineral Point rose to over 4,000 as people migrated to the city to work in the lead mines. Many of the immigrants who came to Mineral Point were tin miners from Cornwall, at the southwestern tip of Great Britain. Many of the Cornish immigrants built simple houses in the town using wood or limestone taken from the local landscape. As time went on, however, the lead mines were exhausted and many of the miners moved on to other mining sites, especially California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848. Other miners stayed in the area to mine zinc, which was also abundant, but by the early 20th century the zinc mines were also being abandoned.
In the 1920s and 1930s, many of the old cabins built by the Cornish miners were being torn down. Seeing this, a local resident named Robert Neal, together with Edgar Hellum, began to acquire and restore several of the old Cornish buildings. Neal and Hellum also gave Cornish-language names to each of the buildings they restored. They called their first project, a 1-story stone cabin, Pendarvis. In order to support the restoration of other buildings, Pendarvis House was turned into a restaurant serving authentic Cornish dishes such as Cornish pasty. The Pendarvis House Restaurant received wide acclaim, and helped finance Neal and Hellum's restoration of even more historic Cornish homes in Mineral Point.
Following the restoration, the Pendarvis historic site included six cabins built by English and Cornish miners during the 1840s and 1850s. The Pendarvis house itself was built of locally quarried limestone and has walls that are 18 to 20 inches thick. Beside the Pendarvis house is the Trelawny, a 2-story cottage of similar construction. Nearby is Polperro, a 2 1⁄2-story house using stone for its first story and wood for its upper floors. Another Pendarvis building is the Rowhouse, which consists of three adjacent stone structures. The first house in the row was built as a free-standing building circa 1841. The second house was also built as a free-standing building circa 1844 or 1845. The final house, built between the other two houses and connecting to them, was built circa 1852.
The collection of buildings restored by Neal and Hellum was transferred to the Wisconsin Historical Society in 1970. A year later, they were opened to the public as the Pendarvis Historic Site. In addition to the cottages, the Wisconsin Historical Society acquired several acres of land on nearby Merry Christmas Mine Hill, the site of a historic zinc mine. Remnants of the mining activity are still visible, but much of the hill has been restored to natural prairie. Visitors to the site can explore the hill on a number of foot trails. The historic buildings are shown to the visiting public seasonally as a museum preserving the history of the region's mining industry and the lives of the miners who first developed the site. Many artifacts are on display in the buildings, including authentic mining tools and household items.
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nrhp # 06001154- Daniels Town Hall (formerly known as Mudhen Lake Lutheran Church) is a historic building in Daniels, Wisconsin.
Swedish Lutherans built this church at Mud Hen Lake in 1886, but the congregation moved in 1893. The building has been the Daniels Town Hall ever since.[2] It was added to the National Register in 2006.
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