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The Wisconsin Pavilion is a modernist-style building at 1201 East Division Street in Neillsville, Wisconsin, United States. Designed by John Steinmann , it was erected for the 1964 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens , New York, serving as the rotunda for the fair's Wisconsin exhibit.
Through the years the NILE Stock Show has always been a show with some of the purest and most influential genetics in the world. The NILE is host to several national cattle breed shows and sales. Additionally, the NILE Gold Buckle Select Horse Sales features a weanling/yearling sale, performance horse sale, as well as six different futurities.
By the early 1800s, the land and streams that are now Clark County were the hunting grounds of Chippewa, Dakota, Ho-Chunk and possibly Menominee peoples. In 1836 these Indians were joined by a party of French-Canadian fur traders who started a temporary post for the American Fur Company on the Black River's East Fork.
The Neillsville Bank at 538 Hewett was built in 1887 as a red brick general store with a corner entrance, and was known as the Gates Block. In 1909 the bank remodeled the exterior to Commercial Prairie Style, covering it with tan brick and limestone trim and moving the entrance to the middle of the east side. [2] [12]
The Wisconsin Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair was moved to Neillsville at the conclusion of the Fair. The building is now home to local radio station WCCN/WCCN-FM and a gift shop. Chatty-Belle is a large cow statue located on the ground of the Wisconsin Pavilion. She has the distinction of being the World's Largest Talking Cow. [22]
Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres (0.59 km 2) of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene.
For Europe, the July 2007 Tattersall's Sale sold 593 horses at auction, with a total for the sale of 10,951,300 guineas, [4] for an average of 18,468 guineas. [5] Doncaster Bloodstock Sales, another British sales firm, in 2007 sold 2,248 horses for a total value of 43,033,881 guineas, making an average of 15,110 guineas per horse.
Location of Clark County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Clark County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...