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1922 – Johnson Smith Catalog grows to 400 pages, employing more than 150 people. The company is moved to Racine, Wisconsin after Alfred fails at publishing a magazine that competed against The Saturday Evening Post. 1923 – The catalog grows to 576 pages, with 100,000 copies being printed. 1923–1935 – Throughout the Depression, sales ...
Remarkably intact old farm begun by New Hampshire immigrant John Severance, and later run by Thomas Pipe and his family for over 100 years. Structures are the balloon framed , Greek Revival -influenced farmhouse and a granary built in the 1850s, a small animal barn built around 1860, an 1880 dairy barn, an 1880 privy , a 1900 corn crib , and a ...
The Wisconsin Cheeseman is a privately held mail-order food gift company operating in Monroe, Wisconsin.Established in 1946, the company publishes several catalogs and emails each year to promote its line of over 300 products, consisting of Wisconsin cheese, sausage, chocolates, fruitcakes, petits fours, cakes, cookies, fresh fruits, nuts, breads and other assorted food gifts.
Remnants of the old downtown of Edgerton, including the ca. 1860 Bentley Dry Goods store, [117] the 1885 Commercial Hotel, [118] the mid-1880s Red Front Grocery Store, [119] the late-1880s Strucker and Mays Grocery store, [120] the 1890 Tobacco Exchange Bank, [121] the 1916 Spike Brothers Livery, and the ca. 1916 Joe Leary Cigar Store-Badger ...
The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West. [3]
This is a list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin. There are over 2,500 listed sites in Wisconsin . Each of the state's 72 counties has at least one listing on the National Register .
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This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.