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[1] [2] Portions of the town were incorporated as the village of Menomonee Falls in 1892, [3] the village of Butler in 1913 [4] and the village of Lannon in 1930. [5] The last remaining parts of the town were annexed by the village of Menomonee Falls in 1958. [6] [3]
Menomonie (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i /) is a city in and the county seat of Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States. [5] The city's population was 16,843 as of the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
The Main Street Historic District is a cluster of historic buildings around the intersection of Main Street and Appleton Avenue in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [2] Menomonee Falls was established in 1836 near a series of rapids of the Menomonee River. The river was dammed to power ...
The area that became Menomonee Falls was first inhabited by Native Americans, including the people of the Menominee and Chippewa tribes. The town of Menomonee was created in December 1839. [9] The Menomonee Falls area continued to grow throughout the 1870s. By 1890, the population of the area was 2,480. [10]
The district includes commercial and educational buildings in various styles, including the 1883 Italianate Lucas Block, [3] the 1888 Italianate First National Bank, [4] the 1889 Mabel Tainter Memorial, the 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque Bowman Hall, [5] the 1907 Neoclassical Schutte & Quilling Bank, [6] the 1913 Neoclassical U.S. Post Office, [7] and the 1924 Art Deco Knights of Pythias Hall.
Wisconsin has 609 historical markers across the state, each one marking a person, place or event that is significant to Wisconsin history. The program started in 1943, when then-Governor Walter ...
[4] [1] It has been preserved as the Wilson Place Museum to provide visitors a view into the lives of the Wilson, Stout, and LaPointe families, the founders of Menomonie, the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and the Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber company, as well as the history of Menomonie. [1]
The canal, which connects to the Menomonee River, was built in the 1870s to spur industrial development. It quickly became one of Milwaukee's most polluted sites, and by the 1920s was the city’s ...