Dictionary of Wisconsin History

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"Barstow and the Balance"
100 Day Men
100th Infantry Battalion
abolition
adulteration (dairy)
African Americans in Wisconsin
aft (maritime)
after cabin (maritime)
aftermast (maritime)
aftermost (maritime)
agriculture in Wisconsin
Alice in Dairyland
Alimibegon
Alligator (logging)
Allis, E.P., Company
allotment
alluvion, or alluvium (mining)
American Antiquarian Society
American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL)
American Bowling Congress
American Craftsman (architecture)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
American foursquare (architecture)
American Fur Company
American Journeys
American Memory Project
American Revolution (in Wisconsin)
American Water Spaniel
americanization
amidships (maritime)
animalcula (farming)
annuity payments
arable (farming)
arch (maritime)
arch board (maritime)
archaeological record
Archaic culture (archaeology)
arched roof (architecture)
architecture in Wisconsin
arpent (Fr.)
Art Deco (architecture)
Arte Moderne (architecture)
Arts and Crafts (architecture)
assimilation
Assiniboüles
Associated Milk Producers (AMPI)
athwartships (maritime)
atlatl
Audubon Society, Wisconsin
automobile industry in Wisconsin
aviary (farming)
aviation in Wisconsin
Awishtoyou
B.P. (time)
Babe (logging)
backstay (maritime)
Bad Axe (county)
Bad Axe, Battle of
Bad River Reservation
Badger Army Ammunition Plant
badger [origin of name]
Ball-hammer (logging)
ballast (maritime)
ballast (railroads)
balloon frame (architecture)
Banick (logging)
bank (railroads)
Bank Riot (1861)
bannerstone (archaeology)
Barber-chair (logging)
barge (maritime)
barker (logging)
Barn-boss (logging)
barque; also bark (maritime)
Barstow-Bashford Affair (1856)
basalt (mining)
bast (farming)
battalion
batteau (Fr.)
batten (farming)
bay (farming)
Bay View Tragedy
Baye, la
beam (maritime)
Bean-hole (logging)
Beaux Arts (architecture)
Beef Slough War
beekeeping and honey production
beer in Wisconsin
beeves
Bell-ox (logging)
Belly-robber (logging)
Beloit & Madison Railroad Co.
Bennett Law
berdache (Fr.)
bere (farming)
Berliner (food)
big (farming)
Big Boy (restaurant)
Big-wheels (logging)
bilge (maritime)
Bindle (logging)
bird's-eye view
Birl (logging)
black gang (maritime)
Black Hawk War (1832)
black history in Wisconsin
Black River pinery
Black soldiers in the Civil War
Black Thursday (November 21, 1968)
Black Thursday (October 24, 1929)
Blind-punk (logging)
Blizzard of 1881
block (maritime)
board feet (logging)
board foot (maritime)
boarding schools
boatswain (maritime)
bobber (railroads)
bobstay (maritime)
Bohunk (logging)
Boiler (logging)
boiler (railroads)
Boiling-up (logging)
Bolt (logging)
Bond Law (temperance)
boom (logging)
boom (maritime)
Boomage (logging)
Boomer (logging)
Boot-jack (logging)
booya (food)
bosun (maritime)
bourgeois (Fr.)
bow (maritime)
bowsprit (maritime)
boxcar (railroads)
brain drain
brakeman (railroads)
branch line (railroads)
bratwurst
Break out (logging)
breeches buoy (maritime)
breviary
brewing industry in Wisconsin
brick (architecture)
bridge (maritime)
Bridge War (Milwaukee)
bridges in Wisconsin
brigade
brigantine
brindle (farming)
broad gauge (railroads)
Broad-ax (logging)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Browning Ruling (1896)
Brush a road (logging)
Brush-snow-fence (logging)
Bubble-cuffer (logging)
bubbler
Bucking-board (logging)
buff
bulkhead (maritime)
Bull (logging)
Bull-cook (logging)
Bull-of-the woods (logging)
Bull-skinner (logging)
bulwark (maritime)
Bunching (logging)
bungalow (architecture)
Bunk (logging)
bunker (maritime)
Bunko (logging)
Bush a road (logging)
bushel (maritime)
bustard
Butt (logging)
butte (Fr.)
By-the-piece (logging)
cabin (maritime)
caboose (railroads)
cache (Fr.)
Cahokia
calcareous rocks (mining)
Calking-iron (logging)
Calks (logging)
calumet
camber (maritime)
Camp Randall
Camp Scott
Camp Utley
Camp-inspector (logging)
Camp-robber (logging)
canals in Wisconsin
canot (Fr.)
cant (railroads)
cant frames (maritime)
Cant-dog (logging)
Canthook (logging)
capital punishment
Capital, Attempted Removal of.
Capitol collapse disaster (1883)
Capitol fire (1904)
capstan (maritime)
Caron, or Carron
carriage and wagon industry in Wisconsin
Carver Grant
caseous (farming)
casse-tete (Fr.)
cassock
castor (Fr.)
Catamaran (logging)
Catarakouy, Fort
cathead (maritime)
Catlin Act
catlinite
cattle, wild
ceiling (maritime)
cement industry in Wisconsin
Center-jam (logging)
centerboard (maritime)
Central-Verein
centrifuga (maritime)
Ceresco
Chagouamikon
Chagouemig
chain locke (maritime)
chain plate (maritime)
chandler (maritime)
charivari
cheese
cheese in Wisconsin
cheesehead
cheesemaking in Wisconsin
Chequamegon
Chequamegon Bay
Chickadee (logging)
child of the devil
chord (maritime)
Chore-boy (logging)
Christmas tree ship
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wis
churning (dairy)
Circus World Museum
Civil Rights Movement in Wisconsin
Civil War, statistics and sources
Civil War, Wisconsin troops
Civil War: 10th Independent Battery Light Artille
Civil War: 11th Independent Battery Light Artille
Civil War: 11th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 12th Independent Battery Light Artille
Civil War: 12th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 13th Independent Battery Light Artille
Civil War: 13th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 14th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 15th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 16th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 17th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 18th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 19th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 1st Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 20th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 21st Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 22nd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 23rd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 24th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 25th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 26th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 27th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 27th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 28th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 29th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 2nd Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 30th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 31 Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 32nd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 33rd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 34th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 35th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 36th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 37th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 38th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 39th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 3rd Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 40th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 41st Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 42nd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 43rd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 44th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 45th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 46th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 47th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 48th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 49th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 4th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 51st Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 52nd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 53rd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 5th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 6th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 7th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 8th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: 9th Independent Battery Light Artiller
Civil War: Company "G", 1st Berdan Sharpshooters
Civil War: 10th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 1st Cavalry Regiment
Civil War: 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment
Civil War: 1st Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 2nd Cavalry Regiment
Civil War: 2nd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 3rd Cavalry Regiment
Civil War: 3rd Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 4th Cavalry Regiment
Civil War: 4th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 5th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 6th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 7th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 8th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: 9th Infantry Regiment
Civil War: African American troops
Civil War: Battle Flags
Civil War: draft riots (1862)
Civil War: home front
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Wisconsin
clan
clipper (maritime)
coaming (maritime)
Coat of Arms, Wisconsin's
cobblestone (architecture)
cofering (mining)
Cold War
Colonial Revival (architecture)
colonialism
colter (farming)
combination (maritime)
Come-and-get-it (logging)
commercial fruit production
Commercial or Chicago Style (architecture)
commercial vegetable processing
company (military)
Company man
Company of One Hundred.
concrete (architecture)
conductor (railroads)
conglomerate, crag or puddingstone (mining)
conservation movement
consort (maritime)
Constitution of 1846
Constitution of 1848
corbeau (Fr.)
Corduroy road (logging)
core (mining)
Corner-post (survey)
Cornish
Corregidor
costeaning (mining)
coulee (Fr.)
counties in Wisconsin
Country Life Movement
coupler (railroads)
coureurs de bois (Fr.)
Cousin Jack
Coutume de Paris
covered-dish meal (food)
covering board (maritime)
cranberry industry in Wisconsin
cravat
Crawford County
Cream City
Crib (logging)
Crib Disaster (Milwaukee)
Crib logs (logging)
cross (mining)
cross bracing (maritime)
Crown-fire (logging)
Cruise (logging)
crummy (railroads)
crushing (mining)
culm (farming)
curd (farming)
curd separation (dairy)
curlew
Cut (logging)
Cut-away-dam (logging)
cut-over
cutover
cutwater (maritime)
czarnina (food)
dairy industry in Wisconsin
Dawes Act (1887)
Daylight-in-the-swamp (logging)
Deacon-seat (logging)
dead man's handle (railroads)
Dead-head (logging)
deadeye (maritime)
deadwood (maritime)
death penality in Wisconsin
deck (maritime)
deckhouse (maritime)
dells
Democratic Party (in Wisconsin)
Depere
depth of hold (maritime)
Dernier ressort (Fr.)
derrick (maritime)
Des Moines River
dewlap (farming)
Dietz, John F. 1861 - 1924
disasters in Wisconsin
disease and epidemics
division (military)
Dog (logging)
dolphin striker (maritime)
donkey boiler (maritime)
donkey engine (maritime)
Doodle Book
Doty's Island
Double-bitted-ax (logging)
Dow riot (1967)
Draper Manuscripts
Dray (logging)
Dray-day (logging)
Dray-road (logging)
Dream Dance
drench (farming)
drift (mining)
Driftless Area
Drive (logging)
driving (mining)
Dry sloop (logging)
due bill (logging)
Duffle (logging)
Dugout (logging)
Durham boat (maritime)
Eagle Diamond
Earth Day
Earth-maker
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981
ecu (Fr.)
Edgerton Art Clay Works (1892-1899)
Edgerton Bible Case
effigy
Effigy Mound culture (archaeology)
Egyptian revival (architecture)
elections in Wisconsin
electrical power in Wisconsin
engage (Fr.)
engine bed (maritime)
environmental movement
Eschikago
espalier (farming)
European Theater
executions in Wisconsin
explorers
express train (railroads)
eye stitcher
facing (railroads)
factor
factory system (fur trade)
fall (maritime)
Fallen Timbers, Battle of
fallowing (farming)
Falls of St. Anthony
false front or boomtown (architecture)
fantail (maritime)
Fantus Report
farina (farming)
fastening (maritime)
fathom
fattigmanns bakkels (food)
federal (architecture)
feed crops
feldspar (mining)
Fender-boom (logging)
fermented milk (dairy)
fetch (maritime)
fetlock (farming)
fettle, fettling (railroads)
fieldstone (architecture)
firebox (railroads)
fireman (railroads)
fires in Wisconsin
First Capitol
first school in Wisconsin
firsts
Fish (logging)
fish boil (food)
fish fry (food)
fishing industry in Wisconsin
fittings (maritime)
flank (farming)
flatcar (railroads)
flitch (farming)
flocculent (farming)
floods in Wisconsin
flookan (mining)
fluke (maritime)
Flume (logging)
fluted (archaeology)
flying junction (railroads)
folle avoine (Fr.)
following (maritime)
Folsom culture (archaeology)
fore (maritime)
forecastle (maritime)
forest fires in Wisconsin
forest products
Fort Armstrong
Fort Blue Mounds
Fort Catarokouy
Fort Crawford
Fort Crevecoeur
Fort Dearborn
Fort Duquesne
Fort Edward Augustus
Fort Frontenac
Fort Hamilton
Fort Howard, Brown Co.
Fort Kaministiquia
Fort La Baye
Fort LeSueur
Fort Mackinac
Fort McCoy
Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Orange
Fort Perrot
Fort Piankeshaw
Fort Pitt
Fort Shelby
Fort Snelling
Fort St. Antoine
Fort St. Croix
Fort St. Francois
Fort St. Joseph
Fort St. Louis
Fort St. Nicolas
Fort Wayne
Fort Winnebago
forts
forty (survey)
forty-eighters
forward (maritime)
four-foot (railroads)
Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company
Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement Company
Fox Wars (ca. 1710-1740)
frames (maritime)
frametops (maritime)
Frank Holton Company
Free Soil Party
Freedom from Federal Supervision Act (1953)
Frisked (logging)
Frog (logging)
Fugitive Slave Act
fur farming
fur trade companies
fusee (Fr.)
Fusée (Fr.)
futtock (maritime)
G.A.R.
gable (architecture)
gad (mining)
gaff (maritime)
gaff-topsail (maritime)
gale (maritime)
Galena
galena (mining)
galley (maritime)
gambrel roof (architecture)
gandy dancer (railroads)
Gandy-dancer (logging)
Gangway (logging)
garnet (mining)
gas stations in Wisconsin
gauge (railroads)
gay history in Wisconsin
Gay Purge of 1962
genealogy
General Allotment Act (1887)
General Motors plant, Janesville
Gentile League
German Renaissance Revival (architecture)
German-English Academy
ghee (dairy)
Gideons
ginseng
girt (farming)
Give-her-snoose (logging)
glume (farming)
Gogebic Boom (mining)
Gogebic Range
gondola (railroads)
Good Roads Movement
gorget
Gothic revival (architecture)
Governor's Commission on Human Rights
governors
grab bar (railroads)
Grading-crew (logging)
gramineou (farming)
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Chute
Grand Portage
Granger Movement
Great Depression
Great Lakes Intertribal Council
Great Migration
Great River
Greek revival (architecture)
Green Bay Packers
greenstone (mining)
gross tonnage (maritime)
ground swell (maritime)
Ground-loader (logging)
grout (architecture)
Grub-stake (logging)
Gugler Lithographic Company
gulp of ore (mining)
gunwale (maritime)
gusset (maritime)
habitant (Fr.)
hack (railroads)
hackle (farming)
half-timber (architecture)
Hamilton's Diggings
Hand holt (logging)
Hand-pike (logging)
Handy-rod (logging)
Hang-up (logging)
hanging knees (maritime)
hank (maritime)
Hard (money)
Hard-wood (logging)
Hardtack-outfit (logging)
hatch (maritime)
Haudenosaunee
haulm (farming)
hawsepipes (maritime)
hawser (maritime)
head-bars
headland (farming)
Hearthstone
heathery (farming)
heel (maritime)
helm (maritime)
hemp
High Victorian (architecture)
Hillside Home School
hip roof (architecture)
hivernant (Fr.)
Hmong
Ho-Chunk Treaty of 1837
hock (farming)
hodag
hogger (railroads)
hoist (maritime)
hold (maritime)
holm (farming)
Holocaust Survivors in Wisconsin
Holy Hill
home front
Homestead Act (1862)
Hoot-nanny (logging)
Hopewell (archaeology)
hopper (farming)
horn timber (maritime)
hornblende (mining)
Horntonville Teachers' Strike
horsepower (maritime)
hot dish (food)
Hot-pond (logging)
hotels in Wisconsin
Hudson Bay Company
hull (maritime)
Hundred Associates, Company of.
Hundred Day Men
ice harvesting industry in wisconsin
Ice-guards (logging)
Illinois Territory
Illinois, Lake
immigration (19th-Century)
immigration (20th-Century)
inboard (maritime)
Indian agencies in Wisconsin
Indian agency
Indian agents
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Indian schools in Wisconsin
Indian treaties
Indiana Territory
Industrial Commission
Industrial School for Boys
Industrial School for Girls
Influenza Epidemic of 1918
initial point (survey)
intendant (Fr.)
International Harvester Company
International Style (architecture)
inventions
Iron Brigade
Iroquois League, or Confederacy
Iroquois Wars
island platform (railroads)
Isle Royale
Italianate (architecture)
Jack-pot (logging)
Jesuit Relations
Jesuits
jib (maritime)
Jimmy the Groundhog
Job-shark (logging)
Jobber's-sun (logging)
Joe Must Go movement
jongleur (Fr.)
Judicial Council
Jumper (logging)
junction (railroads)
Junior Loyalty Legion
kalacky (food)
keel (maritime)
keelboat (maritime)
keelson (maritime)
Kensington Rune Stone
Kewaunee Gold Excitement
Keweenaw Peninsula
Kilby
kiliou
Kill-dad (logging)
king post (maritime)
kinnickinnic
Kionconan
Kiouanan
Kiskakons
kitchi
Kitchi Okima
Knapp, Stout & Co.
knee (maritime)
Knights of Labor
Knights of St. Crispin
knot (maritime)
Knot-bumper (logging)
Kohler Strike
Korean War
Kreiter Piano Company
kringle (food)
krumkake (food)
Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin
La Salle (explorer)
labor movement in Wisconsin
Lac Court Oreilles Reservation
Lac de Boeuf
Lac du Flambeau Reservation
lacrosse (game)
Lady Elgin (shipwreck, 1860)
Lafollette
Lake of the Illinois
Lake Pepin
Lake St. Clair
Land Grant Scandal
land office
land-carriage
Lapointe
launch (maritime)
Law and Order League
lea (farming)
league
League of Nations
League of Women Voters
lefse (food)
Lemonweir River
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Righ
level junction (railroads)
libraries in Wisconsin
lieue (Fr.)
lighter (maritime)
Lime industry in Wisconsin
limpa (food)
Lincoln, Abraham (in Wisconsin)
line (unit of measure)
Liquor Riot (1850)
Little Bohemia raid
livre (Fr.)
local train (railroads)
Lock-down (logging)
lodes (mining)
log construction (architecture)
Log jam (logging)
Log-drive (logging)
logging in Wisconsin
logmark (logging)
long lots
Longfellow's Madison Poem
Lowell, Mass.
lumbering in Wisconsin
Lumberjack (logging)
Lumberjacks' nicknames (logging)
Lumberman (logging)
Lunch (logging)
lupulin (farming)
Lustron (architecture)
lutefisk (food)
Mackinac Island
Mackinaw
Mackinaw (logging)
Mackinaw boat
Madeleine Island
Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality (MAHE)
Mahican
main deck (maritime)
mainchains (maritime)
mainline (railroads)
mainmast (maritime)
maize
Make her out (logging)
Man-catcher (logging)
mangeur de lard (Fr.)
manitou
mansard roof (architecture)
manufacturing in Wisconsin
maple syrup industry
marl (farming)
marl (mining)
Mass transportation in Wisconsin
mast (maritime)
master (maritime)
mastodon
Match-i-ku-is
mate (maritime)
mattock (farming)
Mau-quo-pin-e-no
Maughstown
maw (farming)
May Riot (1886)
meat packing industry
medecin (Fr.)
Menominee Treaty of 1831
Menominee Treaty of 1836
Menominee Treaty of 1848
Menomoneeville
meridian (survey)
Mesconsing
metamorphic rocks (mining)
Metchigamias
metis (Fr.)
Metzner Act
mica (mining)
mica slate (mining)
Michigan Territory
Michilimakinac County
Michilimakinak
midden (archaeology)
Midewiwin
midships (maritime)
milch (farming)
Military Ridge Road
military road
Milk strikes, 1933
mille (Fr.)
Mills Law
Milwaukee & Horicon Railroad
Milwaukee & Missississippi Railroad
Milwaukee & Watertown Railroad
Milwaukee 14
Milwaukee and Rock River Canal
Milwaukee Braves
Milwaukee Brewers
Milwaukee Bucks
Milwaukee Handicraft Project
Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUS
Milwaukee-Downer College
mining in northern Wisconsin
mining in southwestern Wisconsin
miniskoick
mint
Mirro Aluminum Company
missionary
Mississippian culture (archaeology)
Mitchigami
mixed-blood
mizzen (maritime)
mizzenmast (maritime)
Moga-Shooch
Mohegan
moiety
Monongahela Rlver
moor (maritime)
mooring bitt (maritime)
mullion (farming)
muskellunge
musqueton (Fr.)
Muzzle-loaders (logging)
Méchéygan, Lake
nanicular (farming)
naphtha (maritime)
narrow gauge (railroads)
Nashotah House
National Soldiers' Home (Milwaukee)
National Women's Party
nativism
Neoclassical Revival (architecture)
neophyte
net tonnage (maritime)
New France
new red sandstone (mining)
New Richmond tornado (1899)
New Sweden
New York Recording Laboratories
Newhall House fire (1883)
Niagara (shipwreck, 1856)
Nineteenth Amendment
Noque, Bay of
Noquet Islands
Normal school
Norse Pottery (1903-1913)
North Sea
North West Company
northeaster (maritime)
Northwest Ordinance (Ordinance of 1787)
Northwest Territory
Nose-bag (logging)
oakum (maritime)
oats, wild
obsidian
occident, occidentale (Fr.)
octagon (architecture)
oiler (maritime)
Ojibwe Treaty of 1837
Ojibwe Treaty of 1842
Ojibwe Treaty of 1854
Old Abe (eagle)
Old Copper culture (archaeology)
Old World Wisconsin
Oneota tradition (archaeology)
Onontio
Ontonagan
Ordinance of 1787
Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis (Croix de
orient, orientale (Fr.)
orignal (Fr.)
oriniack (Fr.)
Orléans Island
Oscar Mayer Wiener Song
Osconston
Oshkosh Woodworkers' Strike (1898)
osier (farming)
ostensorium
Oubache
Ouinipegouek
Ouisconching
Ouisconsin
Oumalouminek
Ounepigon (Lake)
outboard (maritime)
Outdoor Recreation Act Program (ORAP)
Outehipoues
outing system
Over-run (logging)
Packing-the-rigging (logging)
Packs (logging)
paczki (food)
pad (farming)
paddock (farming)
Pail and Shovel Party
Paleoindian culture (archaeology)
pallasado
panary (farming)
Panic of 1837
pantograph (railroads)
paper industry in Wisconsin
Paramount records
parfleche (Fr.)
Parkman Club
parole (military)
parroquets
parterre (farming)
pastern (farming)
pasteurization (dairy)
patent
pause
pays d'en haut (Fr.)
Pearl Fishing
Pearl-diver (logging)
peavey (logging)
Peavey (logging)
Peckatonica River
pelleterie (Fr.)
Pelée
Penah
Pendarvis
per diem (railroads)
perche (Fr.)
period revival (architecture)
Peshtigo Fire
Peto
Petrified Man Hoax
petroglyph
Pewit's Nest
phalanx
Phoenix (shipwreck, 1847)
piastre (Fr.)
Piastre (Fr.)
pictograph
Picture(d) Rocks, Michigan
Pie-fork (logging)
piece (Fr.)
pied (Fr.)
pigeon
Pike Creek
Pike-pole (logging)
pilothouse (maritime)
Pine Bend
pinery
pinte (Fr.)
pirogue (Fr.)
pistole (Fr.)
piston (railroads)
plank road
plants, native
plate (maritime)
pledget (farming)
plomb (Fr.)
plover
Plumb Plan
plus (Fr.)
Pokelogan (logging)
Pole-ax (logging)
Political Equality League
pollard (farming)
pony boiler (maritime)
Poor-box (logging)
population of Wisconsin, 1820-1990
porcelain
port (maritime)
pot (Fr.)
potatoes
Potter Law (1874)
pottery and earthenware industry in Wisconsin
Poualak
pouce (Fr.)
Pouteouatamis
Poux
Prairie du Chien, Battle of (1814)
Prairie School (architecture)
Prairieville
Pre-exemption Law (1841)
Presidential Visits to Madison
primary elections in Wisconsin
primary rocks (mining)
prisons in Wisconsin
Prize-logs (logging)
probang (farming)
Progressive Movement
Prohibition
Project Sanguine
Puan, Puans, Puants
Puankikias
puddingstone (mining)
Punk (logging)
put about (maritime)
pyrites (mining)
quarried stone (architecture)
quarrying industry in Wisconsin
quarter-section (survey)
quartz (mining)
Queen Anne (architecture)
Queues-coupees
Quicapou
quicklime (farming)
R.R.V.U.R.R.
rabbet (maritime)
Racine Raiders Football Club, Inc.
racquettes (Fr.)
rail (maritime)
railroad disasters in Wisconsin
railroads in Wisconsin
range (survey)
rasade (Fr.)
Red Arrow Division
Red Cedar River
Red Cliff Reservation
Red Ocher culture (archaeology)
Reefer (logging)
refasten (maritime)
regiment
relocation
Renards
rennet (dairy)
Republican Party
restaurants in Wisconsin
Richardsonian Romanesque revival (architecture)
rick (farming)
Rick (logging)
Ridge Road
riffles
rig (maritime)
rigging (maritime)
River drive (logging)
river pigs (logging)
Riviere au Boeuf
Road gang (logging)
road monkey (logging)
roads in Wisconsin (early)
roads in Wisconsin (modern)
Rock Island
rockshelter
rod (survey)
Rogan Act
rolling stock (railroads)
Romanesque revival (architecture)
rommegrot (food)
room and space (maritime)
Roosevelt, Theodore (assassination attempt)
Rosenberry Act
rosette (food)
round forty (logging)
Rouse Simmons (ship)
Route (logging)
rudder (maritime)
rumpelkammer
Rutter (logging)
sac (Fr.)
Sacker (logging)
Sacques
Sakis
saleratus
salvage (maritime)
Sampson (logging)
Sandusky, Battle of
Sandy Lake Tragedy
sanitary commission
sauerkraut (food)
Sauk and Fox Treaty of 1804 (St. Louis)
Sauk Indians
Saukenuk
Sault Saint Louis
Sault Sainte Marie
Sault, The
Saulteurs, "Nation of the Sault"
Sawyer (logging)
Scale-rule (logging)
scaler (logging)
Scandihoovian-dynamite (logging)
scantlings (maritime)
scarph (maritime)
school forests
School Land Scandal
school lands
school section (survey)
schooner (maritime)
schooner-barge (maritime)
scion (farming)
Scissor-bill (logging)
scow (maritime)
Screech-cat (logging)
scroll head (maritime)
scullery (farming)
scuppers (maritime)
Second Empire (architecture)
secondary strata (mining)
section (survey)
section lines (survey)
sedimentary rocks (mining)
Selective logging (logging)
septentrionale (Fr.)
serpentine (mining)
seton (farming)
shaft (maritime)
shaft (mining)
shaft log (maritime)
Shake (logging)
shake roof (architecture)
Shantytown
sheepshead
shilling
shingle style (architecture)
shinplasters
shipbuilding in Wisconsin
shipwrecks in Wisconsin
shivaree
shoal (maritime)
shock (farming)
Shoeing-tree (logging)
shoofly (railroads)
shoot (rapids)
shroud (maritime)
sicowet
Side-jam (logging)
siding (railroads)
silex (mining)
simple minerals (mining)
Sinagos
Sioux Uprising (1862)
six-foot (railroads)
Skid (logging)
Skid-grease (logging)
Skid-road (logging)
Slash (logging)
slate. (mining)
slavery in Wisconsin
Sleigh (logging)
slot (farming)
Sluice-gate (logging)
Snag (logging)
Snake-room (logging)
Snib (logging)
Snoose (logging)
Snorting -pole (logging)
Snow a road (logging)
Snubber (logging)
snus
social security
socialism in Milwaukee
Society of Jesus (Societas Jesu, "S.J.")
soft (money)
Soft-wood (logging)
Sokaogon (Mole Lake) Reservation
sol (Fr.)
Solid-jam (logging)
Sonnontoueronnons
Sorting-jack (logging)
sou (Fr.)
Southwest Fur Company
Spanish American War, Wisconsin in
spar (maritime)
spar deck (maritime)
specie
Spill-way (logging)
spiral wood auger (maritime)
split roof (architecture; logging)
Spoon (logging)
Spring-break-up (logging)
Sprinkler (logging)
squall (maritime)
square rig (maritime)
squatter
St. Anthony, Falls of
St. Croix Reservation
St. Esprit, La Pointe de (mission)
St. Esprit, River of
St. Francis Xavier (mission)
St. Ignace (mission)
St. James (mission)
St. Mark (mission)
St. Peters
Stag trousers (logging)
stalactite. (mining)
stanchion (maritime)
standard gauge (railroads)
starboard (maritime)
stay (maritime)
steam barge (maritime)
steamer; steamship (maritime)
stem (maritime)
stempost (maritime)
Sterling Hall bombing
stern (maritime)
sternpost (maritime)
Stick Style (architecture)
stifle (farming)
Stockbridge Indians
stockless anchor (maritime)
Stonefield
stovewood (architecture)
strata (mining)
stringer (maritime)
structural glass (architecture)
stucco (architecture)
stumpage (logging)
suburbs in Wisconsin
suffrage
sugar
surfman (maritime)
survey, rectangular
Sussex (steamship)
sutler
Swamp (logging)
swamper (logging)
sward (farming)
swath (farming)
Sweeper (logging)
sweeps
Swing-dingle (logging)
switchman (railroads)
syenite and sienite (mining)
syphon; siphon (maritime)
tabac (Fr.)
tackle (maritime)
Tadoussac
Taft-Harltey Act
Tamarois
tank top (maritime)
tanning and leather processing
taps and dies (maritime)
tassels (farming)
Taways
Tchidouakouongues
temperance
temperance movement in Wisconsin
ten-foot (railroads)
termination
terra cotta (architecture)
terrace (farming)
territorial governor
territory
tertiary strata (mining)
theaters in Wisconsin
Third Ward fire (Milwaukee, 1892)
through platform (railroads)
timber frame (architecture)
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1622-1699
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1700-1749
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1750-1783
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1784-1835
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1836-1899
timeline of Wisconsin history, 1900 -1999
Tionnontate
tobacco industry
toise (Fr.)
top-loader (logging)
topmast (maritime)
tornadoes in Wisconsin
tourism in Wisconsin
Tow-head (logging)
Tow-team (logging)
township
trade unions in Wisconsin
trainman (railroads)
transition rocks (mining)
transom (maritime)
trap, or trapean rocks (mining)
traverse
Travois (logging)
Treaty of 1825 (Prairie du Chien)
Treaty of 1827 (Butte des Morts)
Treaty of 1829 (Prairie du Chien)
Treaty of 1832 (Fort Armstrong)
Treaty of 1833 (Chicago)
Trees for Tomorrow
Trek Bicycle Corporation
trench (farming)
Trip-boom (logging)
triple-expansion steam engine (maritime)
Trough-roof (logging)
Troupes de la Marine (Compagnies Franches de la Ma
trunk (maritime)
tug; tugboat (maritime)
Turn (logging)
turn of the bilge (maritime)
turntable (railroads)
typewriter
U-boats
underground railroad in Wisconsin
unemployment compensation
unions in Wisconsin
university lands
Upper Nations
Vermilion Sea
victory gardens
Vietnam War
Villa Louis
voyageur (Fr.)
W.C.T.U.
Wabashaw Prairie
Wade House
wall rock (mining)
walleye
Wanagan (logging)
War of 1812
Washington Island
waterspout (meteorology)
wattle (farming)
way car (railroads)
wear [weir] (farming)
Weas
weather deck (maritime)
wheat cultivation
wheel (maritime)
wheelsman (maritime)
whey (farming)
Whiffletree-neckyoke (logging)
Whig Party
Whiskey-jack (logging)
Widow-maker (logging)
wild cats
wild rice
winch (maritime)
Wind-fall (logging)
windlass (farming)
windlass (maritime)
Wing-dam (logging)
Wing-ding (logging)
Wing-jam (logging)
Winnebago
Winnebago Rapids
Winnebago War (1827)
Wisconsin (oldest cities and towns)
Wisconsin (state)
Wisconsin (statistics)
Wisconsin (territory)
Wisconsin Blue Book
Wisconsin Chair Co.
Wisconsin Dairymen's Association
Wisconsin Dance Bands
Wisconsin Emigrant Agency
Wisconsin Equal Rights Law (1921)
Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs (WFWC)
Wisconsin Home for Women (Taycheedah Correctional
Wisconsin Idea
Wisconsin state fair
Wisconsin State Federation of Labor
Wisconsin State flag
Wisconsin State Prison (Waupun Correctional Instit
Wisconsin Veterans' Home (Waupaca)
withers (farming)
Witness-tree (logging)
wobbly
woman suffrage movement
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Woodland culture (archaeology)
World War One (1914-1918)
World War Two (1939-1945)
World's Columbian Exposition
worm gear (maritime)
Wyandot
X Y Z Company
yard (maritime)
yard (railroads)
yawl (maritime)
yellow dogs
Yellow-dog contracts
You-know (logging)
Zoldoske Case