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Henry Hamilton Bennett (January 15, 1843 – January 1, 1908) was an American photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908. The popularity of his photographs helped turn the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin into a tourist destination. [1]
The Dells were made famous in 1886 by the photographer H. H. Bennett, who took the first stop-action photo of his son jumping onto Stand Rock. [5] The Kilbourn Dam, completed in 1909, raised the water level of the Upper Dells by about 17 feet (5.2 m), flooding some of the caves and rock formations in Bennett's photographs. [6] [7]
The Tanger Outlet Center opened in 2006 near the Great Wolf Lodge, replacing the defunct Wisconsin Dells Greyhound Park, which opened in May 1990, but closed in 1996 due to heavy competition from the nearby Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells Bingo/Casino. Since Mt. Olympus opened the Parthenon Indoor Theme Park in 2006, two more indoor theme parks ...
The H. H. Bennett Studio is a historic photographic studio and photography museum located in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States. The studio building was built in 1875 by noted landscape photographer H. H. Bennett. It was operated by his family until 1998, when the studio was donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The most recent addition is the "Alex Jordan Jr Center", a museum detailing Mr. Jordan's personal life and the construction of the complex's many buildings. In the same year, the Wisconsin State Journal published a four-part series on "The House on the Rock", which reporter Marv Balousek later expanded into a self-published book entitled House ...
History [ edit ] In 1979, the Waterman family purchased 205 feet (62 m) of frontage property on U.S. Route 12 in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin [ citation needed ] and created a bumper boat ride and built a go-kart track, which replaced the Delton Outdoor Theatre, the area's drive-in theater.
It was named for its location in the city of Kilbourn, which changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. The dam was designed by Daniel W. Mead [ 4 ] and built from 1906 to 1909 by the Southern Wisconsin Power Company, led by Magnus Swenson of Madison, Wisconsin and Bates & Rogers Construction of Chicago. [ 3 ]
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