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Many American reclamation districts were established prior to 1900 when local land owners first started working to put new land into agricultural production. Much of the lands "reclaimed" by 19th century reclamation districts were natural wetlands. Since wetlands are subject to flooding, these lands often were adjacent to sources of water ...
Small commercial district, including the 1885 Lee Tobacco Warehouse, [7] the 1885 Turner and Atkinson Tobacco Warehouse, [8] the 1891 Kittilson Tobacco Warehouse, [9] the 1891 Hanson Hotel, [10] the 1891 Ellingson Saloon, [11] the 1895 Italianate-style CM&SP Depot, [12] the 1902 Gothic Revival-style Pabst Brewing Co. Saloon Building, [13] the ...
Location of Green County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Green County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Green County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
Built in 1933 by local townspeople with a lamella truss dome on land donated by Charles F. Taylor, this was the first indoor hockey arena in Wisconsin. It has also hosted boxing, circuses, roller-skating, and today the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame. [10] [11] 5: The Everett Resort: The Everett Resort: October 8, 2008 : 1269 Everett Rd.
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
Map of Klamath Project Some 225,000 acres (91,000 ha) of rangeland have been transformed into active farmland through the Klamath Project. Of that total, 80,000 acres (32,000 ha) were recovered by draining a portion of Lower Klamath Lake, a shallow marsh straddling the Oregon-California border between the California towns of Dorris and Tulelake .
Jul. 15—Area legislators announced Thursday that they helped secure funding for local regional projects that include $1 million for flood protection in Sutter County. Both State Sen. Jim Nielsen ...
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...