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| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
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| Reference Number: | 31833 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | JOHN HINKEL BUILDING/SALOON |
| Reference Number: | 46658 |
| Learn more about the entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator who established, Allis Company, Milwaukee's largest industrial employer in the late 1880s. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church |
| Reference Number: | 15571 |
| Documented and Legendary Accounts of Lincoln's Visits to Wisconsin |
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| Abraham Lincoln's visits to Wisconsin, documented and legendary. |
| Land Speculator and Politician |
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| Brief biography of surveyor, land speculator, railroad promoter and politician Byron Kilbourn, twice elected mayor of Milwaukee. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | A.O. Smith Corporation Headquarters Historic District |
| Reference Number: | 100008256 |
| Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
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| Chapter 9 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story' |
| Steamships, Canals and the 19th Century Economy |
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| Discover what happened when 19th century Wisconsin settlers tried to construct a canal between the Mississippi and the Great Lakes. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Milwaukee Light Guard coat worn by Captain John C. Starkweather, 1858-1861. (Museum object #1957.282) |
| The History of Modern Immigration in Wisconsin |
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| Discover the economic and cultural changes that brought new immigrants to Wisconsin in the 20th century. |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Sylvester and Asenath Pettibone House |
| Reference Number: | 16402 |
| The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement |
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| First-hand narrative of the fight for farmworkers' rights from celebrated labor leader, Jesus Salas |
| A History of Disease in Wisconsin |
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| Read this informative collection of all the outbreaks and epidemics in Wisconsin's history. |
| Learn how epidemics erupted in Wisconsin and the ways communities responded |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Dairyland Rat Poison container made for the Wisconsin Pharmacal Co. of Milwaukee, 1955-1965. (Museum object #1999.143.34) |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
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