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Madison is known for having its athletics fan base centered on the University of Wisconsin–Madison, whose teams compete as the Wisconsin Badgers in venues in and around the city. The Wisconsin Badgers football team plays at Camp Randall Stadium where crowds of as many as 83,000 have attended games.
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
Pages in category "History of Madison, Wisconsin" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... National Register of Historic Places listings in ...
The Nakoma Historic District is a historic neighborhood on the southwest side of Madison, Wisconsin near the Nakoma Country Club, including contributing houses built from 1915 to 1946. In 1998 the large district was added to the National Register of Historic Places , [ 2 ] primarily for having "the finest collection of Period Revival style ...
The Sherman Avenue Historic District is a historic neighborhood along Lake Mendota on the east end of the isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, consisting mostly of middle class houses built from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, a number of old houses in the district were demolished to make way for new buildings. In response, residents petitioned the city to have the district designated a landmark and protect its history. The district became a city landmark in 1976, officially becoming Madison's first historic district. [3]
The Langdon Street Historic District is a historic neighborhood east of the UW campus in Madison, Wisconsin - home to some of Madison's most prominent residents like John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, and nationally recognized historian Frederick Jackson Turner.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.