Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Downtown Tomah, Wisconsin, looking south on Superior Avenue. Tomah was founded by Robert E. Gillett in 1855 [3] [4] and incorporated as a city in 1883, [5] but the charter was not issued until 1894. [6] It is named after Thomas Carron (ca. 1752–1817), a trader at Green Bay who had integrated into the Menominee tribe. [7]
Tomah: The first dedicated post office building in Tomah, designed in Classical Revival style by architects at the US Treasury Dept and built 1927-28 by the Fred R. Comb Company of Minneapolis. Facade is almost identical to the Merrill Post Office. Now used as offices. [20] 11: Tomah Public Library: Tomah Public Library: May 28, 1976
As of the census [2] of 2000, there were 1,194 people, 428 households, and 338 families residing in the town. The population density was 37.9 people per square mile (14.6/km 2).
The Tomah Indian Industrial School, which opened in 1893, was an off-reservation, government boarding school in Wisconsin located along a main railroad that connected Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. It provided education for children from the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, who were referred to at the time as the “Winnebago" by white settlers ...
The library was constructed in 1915 to serve the City of Tomah and the surrounding area. It is a Carnegie library. In 1911 Ernest Buckley, who was a successful geologist, left the city of Tomah $12,000 to be used for a park or library. The city leaders set aside $7,000 for a library and requested a grant of $10,000 from the Carnegie Foundation.
Wisconsin has 2,776 places deemed historically significant by the National Register and State Register of Historic Places. Not one acknowledges Latino history in the state. It's an issue the ...
Tomah station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Tomah, Wisconsin.It is served by the daily round trips of the Borealis and Empire Builder.The station house is a wooden structure that was originally built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad. [2]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ... Tomah is the name of places in the US state of Wisconsin: Tomah ...