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| Brief description of the Carver Grant, a hypothetical tract of land that would have included much of northwestern Wisconsin. |
| Brief history of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. |
| A Bizarre Story of Land Prospecting Gone Awry |
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| Read the amazing story of a man who watched his potential 10,000-square-mile northern Wisconsin empire disappear into thin air. |
| Brief history of the Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement Company. |
| Brief biography of fomer WI governor William Augustus Barstow (1813 - 1865). |
| A Dishonest Democrat and a Radical Republican |
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| Learn about the election that was so close that Wisconsin briefly had two governors until one was exposed for tampering with ballots. |
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