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The first permanent modern settlement along the marsh was the town of Horicon. In 1846, a dam was built to power the town's first sawmill. The dam held the water in the marsh, causing the water level to rise by nine feet. The "marsh" was called Lake Horicon, and was, at the time, called the largest man-made lake in the world.
Even on a midsummer day when the outside air temperature is 90 °F (32 °C), ground temperatures on these slopes range from 42 °F (6 °C) to about 55 °F (13 °C). Although the slopes will freeze in winter, the temperatures are moderated. These slopes remain cool throughout the year and are home to rare species of plants and animals.
For one of the state’s preeminent experts on ancient Indigenous mounds, it made sense to Kurt Sampson to help write a book about the subject, focusing on a mound-rich region in Wisconsin.
The Horicon Marsh Veteran Hunt is a nonprofit organization founded by Dodge and the late Ryan Voy of Horicon, friends who grew up hunting on the marsh. The idea for the event was born on Memorial ...
The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve is an affiliated area of the National Park System of the United States comprising nine sites in Wisconsin that preserve geological evidence of glaciation.
The western lobe formed Green Bay, Lake Winnebago and the Horicon Marsh. The major part of the Kettle Moraine area is considered interlobate moraine, though other types of moraine features, and other glacial features are common.
Fox River National Wildlife Refuge, managed by staff at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, encompasses 1,054 acres (4.27 km 2) of wetland and upland habitat along the Fox River in the Town of Buffalo, in Marquette County, Wisconsin, United States.
Life-threatening and bitter cold is impacting much of the U.S. as a deadly winter storm continues to sweep the Southeast. This week, a storm dropped historic amounts of snow on Florida, Texas and ...