Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Sampler embroidered by Cecilia Lewis at a boarding school in 1809. (Museum object #1984.294.1) |
An Unreliable Text and Other Evidence |
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Wisconsin History books teach that Jean Nicolet was the first white person to reach the state, but he may have been the second. |
A Fortification That may not Have Existed |
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Learn the story surrounding the building of Fort Koshkonong by General Henry Atkinson. |
Speculating on a Dream |
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Join cantankerous British geologist George Featherstonehaugh as he travels to Madison in 1837 and finds things not as he expected them to be. |
Argument and an Unpopular Choice |
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Discover how Madison became the capitol city during the first Wisconsin territorial convention |
Learn about the creation of Wisconsin's first maps, with links to the surveyors' notebooks and diaries and the state's first township maps. |
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