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The outbreak generated a long-lived tornado family that produced four intense tornadoes across the Lower Chippewa Valley, primarily along and near the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak was a destructive F5 that killed 21 people and injured 110 others in and near Colfax, Wisconsin. [nb 2] [nb 3] [nb 4]
The Council of Three Fires (in Anishinaabe: Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.
Chippewa Falls: Four-story brick shoe factory built in 1910 and operated until 1974, at its peak employing 175 and producing 1500 pairs of shoes and boots per day. The one survivor of five shoe factories that diversified Chippewa's economy as lumbering waned. [11] [12] 3: Cook-Rutledge House: Cook-Rutledge House: August 7, 1974 : 505 W. Grand Ave.
Feb. 15—CHIPPEWA FALLS — Chippewa County is set to spend $15.2 million on capital projects in 2024, including $4.86 million in sales tax revenue. The rest of the money will come from grants or ...
Chippewa County (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ p ə w ɑː / CHIH-pə-wah) is a county in the eastern Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,785. [3] The county seat is Sault Ste. Marie. [4] The county is named for the Ojibwe (Chippewa) people, and was set off and organized in 1826. [1]
Mar. 11—CHIPPEWA FALLS — Two incumbents and a challenger will face off for two school board seats in the Chippewa Falls Area School District on April 2. Both Steven Olson and Sharon McIlquham ...
August 3, 1979: Whitefish Point Lighthouse† Whitefish Point, 6 miles NE of Shelldrake on Whitefish Road Shelldrake vicinity February 22, 1974: Whitefish Point Post Office: 16878 N. Whitefish Point Rd. Paradise vicinity August 3, 1979: Whitefish Township Informational Designation S.R. 48 M-123 Paradise: March 15, 1990
The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.