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The Common School Fund is the sole source of funding for more than 90% of public school libraries in the state. The fund was created from the sale of federal land granted to Wisconsin. The fund ...
The Normal School Fund was created in 1865 from the proceeds of half of the land grant conveyed to Wisconsin by Congress in the Swamp Land Act of 1850, after the Legislature determined not all of the swampland was needed for drainage purposes. The resulting land grant amounted to some 1,500,000 acres (2,300 sq mi) of public land, of which ...
Map of Native American land cessions in Wisconsin per US Treaty with the Ojibwe, 1837 (242), Treaty with the Dakota, 1837 (243), and Treaty with the Winnebago, 1837 (245) Items portrayed in this file depicts
The following list of Carnegie libraries in Wisconsin provides detailed information on United States Carnegie libraries in Wisconsin, where 63 public libraries were built from 60 grants (totaling $1,047,762) awarded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1901 to 1915. In addition, academic libraries were built for 2 institutions (totaling ...
Later housed Racine's first public library, a vaudeville theater, a Turkish bath, and the U.S.'s first vocational school, among other enterprises. 28: Melvin Avenue Residential Historic District: Melvin Avenue Residential Historic District: November 2, 2011 : Melvin Ave. generally bounded by Erie & N. Main Sts.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
The old downtown, including the 1848 Italianate Hill woolen shawl mill, [30] the 1877 frame Queen Anne Martha Whipple Music Store, [31] the 1878 block of Osthelder Saloon, [32] Sully's Dry Goods, [33] Thiemann Grocery and Bryant Drug Store, [34] the 1880 Brickner Woolen Mills, [35] the 1880 Victorian Smith Meat Market and Post Office, [36] the ...
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 .