Governor Lewis Cass of the Michigan Territory organized Brown County in October 1818, one of Wisconsin’s two original counties. It once stretched across the entire eastern half of the future state, from the Illinois line to the tip of the Door Peninsula.
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3 events,President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, a gift from France and an enduring symbol of American freedom. In October 1893, prankster and timber cruiser Eugene Shepard unveiled the Hodag, a horned, spike backed beast he claimed to have cornered in the swamps near Rhinelander. The Smithsonian eventually forced a confession, but the Hodag won anyway: it is Rhinelander’s beloved mascot to this day. |
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4 events,The world's most famous escape artist, raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, died on Halloween. Magicians still honor him every October 31. |
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2 events,An Oshkosh workwear maker founded in 1895 grew into Oshkosh B’Gosh, whose hickory striped bib overalls dressed railroaders, farmers, and eventually every toddler in America. The brand carried the city’s name around the world. |
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2 events,The great ore freighter loaded her final cargo in Superior, Wisconsin, then sank in a Lake Superior gale with all 29 hands. The legend lives on from Gitche Gumee. |
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1 event,Chartered in 1847 with a ten thousand dollar gift from Amos Lawrence, Lawrence opened its doors in Appleton on November 12, 1849 as the second coeducational college in America. Its conservatory of music still draws students from around the world to the east end of College Avenue. |
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2 events,In just 272 words at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln redefined the Civil War as a struggle for a new birth of freedom. |
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1 event,Tinkering in his Sayner shop, Carl Eliason bolted skis, a track, and a small motor into a motor toboggan and patented it in 1927. Every modern snowmobile traces its family tree to Vilas County, which is why the Northwoods calls itself the birthplace of the sport. |
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4 events,On November 27, 1892 the ferry Ann Arbor No. 1 arrived at Kewaunee loaded with railroad cars of flour, the first open water railcar ferry crossing of Lake Michigan. Car ferries sailed from Kewaunee’s deep harbor for nearly a century, until 1990.
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1 event,Jesuit missionary Father Claude Allouez celebrated the first Mass in Wisconsin near the head of Green Bay on December 3, 1669, the feast day of St. Francis Xavier. Two years later the mission bearing that name settled at the rapids of the Fox River, giving De Pere both its start and its name. |
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