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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.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Wisconsin Rapids' top business stories of 2023: Former Shopko building, Herschleb's, Noodles & Co., Kwik Trip and more
Wisconsin Rapids (previously Grand Rapids) sits on what was once called the Grand Rapids of the Wisconsin River. The Wisconsin River drops twenty-seven feet at the main rapids and sixty feet overall. [1] Early settlers used islands in the rapids to develop water power for a flour mill, machine shop, saw mill and the Grand Rapids Pulp and Paper Co.
Later owned by William Weis, who ran a wholesale liquor business in Milwaukee, operated the farm as a dairy with Jersey cattle, and added many of the outbuildings around 1910. Woodrow and Gertrude Wilson bought the farm in 1950 and developed their own line of Holsteins there. [73] [74] [75] 33: Main Street Commercial Historic District
Makerspace at McMillan Memorial Library. In addition to its collection, the library offers many other services to patrons. There are two meeting rooms, a 249-seat theater used for movies and performances, a 'Commons', which is designed to function as a third place, a coffee house, a recently renovated children's library with hand-on activities, environmental learning station, and story area ...
Mixbook's list of the 100 most breathtaking views in the U.S., published for World Photography Day on Monday, recognizes two locations in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee skyline as seen from Lakeshore ...
Grand Rapids takes its name from a series of rapids on the Wisconsin River. [3] The west and north part of what is now Grand Rapids, within three miles of the Wisconsin River, was in the "Indian strip," sold by the Menominee to the United States government in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars. As such, it was logged and surveyed early. [4]