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The Wisconsin Exposition Center is the state's largest exhibit hall with over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of space and nearly 10,000 on-site parking spots. Four large meetings rooms total about 3,000 square feet (280 m 2) of exhibit space. The venue primarily hosts consumer shows, trade shows, food functions, conventions, and other public ...
Lynden Sculpture Garden (formerly the Bradley Sculpture Garden) is a 40-acre outdoor sculpture park located at 2145 West Brown Deer Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Milwaukee County. [1] Formerly the estate of Harry Lynde Bradley and Margaret (Peg ) Blakney Bradley, Lynden is home to the collection of more than 50 monumental sculptures collected ...
Packer games in Milwaukee were ended after the 1994 season. [3] The grounds of the State Fair, at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources park site, contain one of only two Indian effigy mounds remaining in Milwaukee County. (The other is located at Lake Park in Milwaukee.) Four pre-historic mounds originally populated the location, which ...
Milwaukee Harbor entry N. pier, SE. corner of H.W. Maier Festival Park 43°01′34″N 87°53′43″W / 43.0260°N 87.8953°W / 43.0260; -87.8953 ( Milwaukee Pierhead 42-foot lighthouse built in 1906 on the end of a pier in Milwaukee's harbor.
Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia: Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum: Y Virginia: Quantico: National Museum of the Marine Corps: Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine: Virginia: Reedville
A Milwaukee native, Pekrul signed up for the U.S. Army at Boys Tech High School (now Bradley Tech), according to an interview with the War Memorial Center that he gave as part of the Wisconsin ...
Gertie the Duck, an icon of Milwaukee history, was moved with her ducklings to the lagoon at Juneau Park in the mid-1940s for their safety. [5] The story of a duck, Gertie, and her efforts to watch over nine eggs— and ultimately hatch six ducklings on a wood piling below the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge—was reported by Gordon MacQuarrie of the Milwaukee Journal and became an inspiration for ...
The parade resumed in 2009, returning to Milwaukee on July 12, after a six-year hiatus, after organizers raised $1.5 million. [7] [8] The 2009 parade celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Circus World Museum. [9] The animals and wagons were on display at Veteran’s Park in Milwaukee for several days before the parade. [10]