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Shortly thereafter, in August 1886, Appleton was the site for another national first, the operation of a commercially successful electric streetcar company. Electric lights replaced gas lamps on College Avenue in 1912. Appleton also had the first telephone in Wisconsin, and the first incandescent light in any city outside of the East Coast. [19]
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley’s gala, Vintage in the Valley, will be held 5 to 11 p.m. at the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, 355 W. Lawrence St., Appleton.
Major highway routes in the area include: Interstate 41/U.S. Route 41, which connects the Fox Cities with Green Bay and Milwaukee; Wisconsin Highway 441, known locally as the Tri-County Expressway, which is an auxiliary highway of Interstate 41 that serves as a beltway around Appleton; and U.S. Route 10 which travels east–west, connecting the ...
The Appleton Papermakers were a minor league baseball team located in Appleton, Wisconsin. They were part of the Wisconsin-Illinois League from 1909-1914 and was in the Wisconsin State League from 1940-1942 and 1946-1953. The team was coached by Dutch Zwilling during part of the 1942 season. [1]
The Appleton West Theatre, an all-student group directed by Rebecca Whittle, perform live shows to be presented in the West auditorium. Each year, a stage play is presented in the Fall, and a musical is presented in the Spring; students are invited to audition to perform or work as backstage crew members.
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys serves 32,000 girls and 11,000 volunteers in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. [19] It was created in 2007 as the result of a merger of five Minnesota councils. [20] Only one of its camps is located in Wisconsin.
Appleton Lock 4 Historic District is a historic district containing a 1907-built waterway lock in Appleton, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 for its significance in engineering and transport .
Matrix is a jazz fusion group from Appleton, Wisconsin, that started in 1974, noted for tight brass ensemble lines and complex musical themes inspired by literary works, the American Indian, and other significant programmatic themes.