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The Forest is host to Old World Wisconsin, a collection of farmsteads, recreating the homes and lives of settlers, and also to the McMiller Sportsmen Center, public hunting practice ranges. The Pike Lake Unit is on the eastern side of 446-acre (1.80 km 2) Pike Lake. It is located on state Highway 60 in between Slinger and Hartford. The park ...
The park takes its name from a hill found within its borders. Lapham Peak has an elevation of 1,233 feet (376 m) above sea level, and is the highest point in Waukesha County. At the top of Lapham Peak is a wooden observation tower that is 45 feet (14 m) high and offers a dynamic view of southeastern Wisconsin and the northern edge of Illinois.
The 3M sign came down in late summer at its Wonewok corporate getaway north of Park Rapids. "That really tied it up for the rest of us that this is happening," Rich Halvorsen, a neighbor of the ...
November 4, 1993 (Roughly, Central Ave. from Depot St. to Third St. Marshfield: Includes many old brick businesses like the Thomas House Hotel built after the fire of 1887, the Romanesque Revival old city hall built in 1901, the Craftsman-styled Wisconsin Central depot built in 1910, and the eclectic-styled Hotel Charles built in 1925, which hosted JFK, Patsy Cline, and possibly John Dillinger.
The Pike Lake Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest is a 825-acre (334 ha) unit of the Wisconsin state park system. The unit is located just east of Hartford, Wisconsin on State Highway 60, on the east shore of the 446-acre (180 ha) Pike Lake. It was dedicated by Wisconsin governor Patrick J. Lucey in June 1971.
The Giiwedinong Treaty Rights and Culture Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota, was established in 2023 as the first museum in the state managed by Indigenous peoples, focusing on treaty rights, environmental justice, and cultural heritage. [1] [2]
Keke’s Breakfast Cafe, new at 3000 S. Hulen St. and 9821 North Freeway, is a Florida corporate chain owned by Denny’s. But it was founded in Orlando in 2006 by two brothers from small-town ...
Park Rapids Area High School, at 401 Huntsinger Avenue, serves grades 9–12. [29] Century School, at 501 Helten Avenue, houses grades K–8. [30] Park Rapids had two separate buildings for primary school that split up K–3 and 9–12 from grades 4-8. Frank White Elementary and Park Rapids High School were part of the same building.