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The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, [1] until May 29, 1848, ...
Wisconsin is bordered by the Montreal River; Lake Superior and Michigan to the north; by Lake Michigan to the east; by Illinois to the south; and by Iowa to the southwest and Minnesota to the northwest. A border dispute with Michigan was settled by two cases, both Wisconsin v. Michigan, in 1934 and 1935.
Koshkonong Settlement (Norwegian: Kaskeland) [1] [2] [3] was a pioneer settlement located in Wisconsin's eastern Dane and western Jefferson counties. It took its name from Koshkonong Lake, and particularly from Koshkonong Creek. [4] The first Norwegians located in the settlement in the spring and summer of 1840. [4]
Albany, Wisconsin – 11.51%; Belleville, Wisconsin – 11.25%; Blanchardville, Wisconsin – 11.21%; Shipshewana, Indiana – 10.89%; only cities, towns and villages with at least 500 people included. According to the 2000 United States Census [8] the states with the highest percentage of people of Swiss ancestry are the following: Utah – 1. ...
Wisconsin Magazine of History 23 no. 2 (December 1939): 138-162. Still, Bayrd. Milwaukee: the History of a City. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948); a standard scholarly history. Wachman, Marvin. History of the Social-Democratic Party of Milwaukee, 1897-1910. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945).
Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin bears his name. Nicolet Beach in Peninsula State Park, Wisconsin, bears his name. Nicollet Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, bears his name. There is a high school named after him in Nicolet, Quebec. L'École Secondaire Jean-Nicolet opened in 1968.
Old World Wisconsin is an open-air museum located near Eagle, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.It depicts housing and the daily life of settlers in 19th-century Wisconsin, with separate areas representing the traditions of different ethnic groups who settled in the state.