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  Wisconsin.gov - Capitol Facts - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory, previously a part of the Northwest, Indiana and Michigan territories, is organized at Mineral Point.
From the first edition, The Wisconsin State Capitol Guide and History is the only one of its kind to be sanctioned and recognized as the official history and guide of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
The memorial is inscribed with the names of Wisconsin law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty since statehood.
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  Wisconsin - LoveToKnow 1911
The principal quarries are in Dodge, Green Lake (a flish granite is quarried at Utley and a pinkish rhyolite at Berlin), Marathon, Marinette, Marquette, Sauk, Waupaca and Waushara counties.
Wisconsin has an excellent free public school system, which was established in 1848 and which provides a graded system of instruction in country district and city schools, high schools and normal schools and the University of Wisconsin (incorporated 1848; see Wisconsin, University Of).
In 1800 Wisconsin was included in the newly organized Indiana Territory; and in 1809 on the admission of Indiana as a state it was attached to Illinois.
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 Doty, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doty is a town in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.
In the town the population was spread out with 11.6% under the age of 18, 2.0% from 18 to 24, 17.3% from 25 to 44, 43.4% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the town was $32,188, and the median income for a family was $34,107.
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 List of Wisconsin towns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The term town is used in Wisconsin in the same way as the township is used in many other states.
Towns are unincorporated minor civil division s of, although there is a town board usually consisting of 3 supervisors.
The town board may have up to 5 members if the board is authorized to exercise the powers of a village or if the town population is greater than 2,500.
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 Madison, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The biggest employer in Madison is the Wisconsin state government, including virtually all of the state's departments, such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the Wisconsin Attorney General, and so forth.
Madison's Wisconsin Public Radio station, WHA, was one of the very first radio stations in the nation to begin broadcasting, and remains the longest continuously broadcasting station in the country.
The Wisconsin State Capitol dome, closely based on the dome of the U.S. Capitol, is the jewel of the Madison skyline, and is visible throughout the Madison area due to a state law that limits building heights.
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 Doty, Wisconsin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Doty is a town located in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 249.
Doty Docs A history of London told through articles, photos, video and sound clips, featuring the saga of bandleader Guy Lombardo, Canada's first colour film and the ghost of the Grand Theatre.
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 Taycheedah Township, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
This town took its name from the village of that name, which was at one time larger than Fond du Lac, and promised not only to be the commercial metropolis of this portion of Wisconsin, but the county seat of Fond du Lac County.
It was, also, the first Wisconsin village to send steamboats up the Wolf River and carry on, in those afterward famous timber regions, the business of lumbering.
Dotys translation was "our home," which was very nearly correct, though the present English pronunciation of the word is far from it.
www.wlhn.org /fond_du_lac/towns/Taycheedah.htm   (1166 words)

  
 City of Racine Wisconsin
The Town of Caledonia is situated in the northeast corner of the county.
On the north it is bounded by Milwaukee County; on the east by Lake Michigan; on the south by the Town of Mount Pleasant, and on the west by the Town of Raymond.
On the north it is bounded by the Town of Caledonia; on the east by Lake Michigan; on the south by Kenosha County and on the west by the Town of Yorkville.
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 Lone Rock, Wisconsin
The water in the foreground is a backwater of the Wisconsin River and not the main channel.
The town of Lone Rock was born with the coming of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad.
Lone Rock was the principal village in the town of Buena Vista and it had second among the towns in Richland county..
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 Our state capitol
The town was created by John Atchinson, a developer, for the sole purpose of becoming Wisconsin's first capital.
Doty formed a union with a gentleman from Michigan, Steven Mason, who was interested in buying land in the new territory of Wisconsin.
Doty had not appeared interested in entering the "Capital Sweepstakes" until the fall of 1836.
www.legis.state.wi.us /senate/scc/kids/toppage2.htm   (1353 words)

  
 Books about Wisconsin
Wisconsin's geography, government, history, local landmarks and famous residents are presented in a short and easy text, accompanied by color photographs.
Artist Lisa Fifield, an enrolled member of the Wisconsin Oneida Nation, shares paintings that reflect her "vision of people and animals helping each other." Her work features Native peoples interacting with creatures of the natural world in scenes that reflect the sense of balance that occurs when the two are in harmony.
Although Anna was born in Wisconsin, she longs to leave her birthplace and the chores expected of her to return to the Poland she imagines from her parents' stories.
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 Communities receive funds for boating projects
The grants were approved in May by the Wisconsin Waterways Commission, a five-member commission appointed by the governor to determine the need for recreational boating facilities and to approve financial aid to local governments and agencies for the development of recreational boating projects.
Town of Fountain Prairie, Columbia County: $43,741 to rehabilitate the launch to Lazy Lake.
Town of Newbold, Oneida County: $32,025 to construct a public access to the Wisconsin River at Fredrich Landing.
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 List of wisconsin towns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Doty wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 OnMilwaukee.com Travel and Visitors Guide: Beyond Milwaukee: Belmont was Wisconsin's first capital
Plus, the original Wisconsin Territory included parts of what now are Iowa and the Dakotas, so Belmont seemed to be as good a place as any for a capital.
James Doty, a lobbyist and promoter, tried to work a deal to buy some land on an isthmus between the lakes near what now is Madison.
In 1910, the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs bought a tract of land for a small monument noting the first capital.
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 Town of Taycheedah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Taycheedah township (T 15-16N--R 18E) is on the east shore of Lake Winnebago, northeast of the town and city of Fond du Lac.
Governor Doty was attracted to this area and induced many of his friends in New York to make their home here.
Another school was built in 1857 and the first building was then used for community affairs such as town meetings, concerts and women's war activities.
www.townoftaycheedah.com /history.html   (258 words)

  
 Appleton Wisconsin History
The area remained a part of the Town of Buchanan until its incorporation as a village in 1910.
They controlled the local fur trade, built the first gristmill and sawmill in Wisconsin, and were prominent in developing the Fox River Valley.
Doty, wife of Judge James Duane Doty, an early governor of Wisconsin.
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 Doty, Wisconsin WI, town profile (Oconto County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Wisconsin > All counties > Oconto County > Doty
Doty is a town in Oconto County, in the Green Bay metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Doty was $19,809, compared with $21,587 nationally.
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 Contributors - Lodestar Quarterly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mark Doty is the author of seven books of poems, including School of the Arts, a collection expected to be published in spring 2005.
Doty has taught at the University of Iowa, New York University, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Houston.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, he holds a master's degree in newswriting and reporting from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and is working toward an MFA in the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.
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 Madison, Wisconsin: Some Restaurant Suggestions
Note that these comments are based on personal opinions and should not be construed as official statements of the University of Wisconsin, or the State of Wisconsin.
Clay Market Cafe, a transplant from the smaller town of Cambridge, is the latest such addition.
In a town with truly wonderful bakeries, there is little excuse for this.
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 Neenah Wisconsin Real Estate
Here you'll enjoy the lifestyle of small town America and the convenience of living in the Fox Cities metropolitan area, the fastest growing urban center in Wisconsin.
The lighthouse on the shore of Lake Winnebago in Neenah, Wisconsin has stood for the last 50 years in a place where Indian Tribesman met for pow-wows 150 years ago at the mouth of the Fox River.
How the name "Neenah," came to be attached to the locality is attributed to Governor Doty, who meeting with a band of Indians one day, asked pointed to the river, "what is that?" The Indians answered, "Neenah" being their word for water.
www.relocate-america.com /states/WI/cities/neenah.htm   (669 words)

  
 Madison Wisconsin Tourism | Minnesota Monthly
Of course, the city has its requisite student ghettos—with couches on front porches, “For Rent” signs in windows, and beer bottles in yards—but new residential lofts and commercial districts also are developing to support the growing population of young, high-tech, white-collar workers.
In 1829, James Doty, a former federal judge who later became governor of Wisconsin Territory, traveled through Wisconsin’s Four Lakes Region and purchased 1,200 acres of what is now Madison for $1,500.
The city was founded as Wisconsin’s capital in 1836; the university was founded in 1848.
www.minnesotamonthly.com /midwestTraveler/2005-09.html   (1577 words)

  
 Wisconsin Identification Record 2001
An annotated listing of Books for Children and Young Adults about Wisconsin People, Places, and Topics of Interest features books published from 1996 to the present that have been received by the CCBC and are about Wisconsin-related topics.
If you are a Wisconsin author or illustrator who had a book published in 2001 and it is not on this list, or if you have additional information about your connection to the state of Wisconsin, please contact Merri Lindgren.
Gene Shepard toured Wisconsin cities with his ferocious Hodag, a vicious creature that breathed fire, until closer inspection revealed that the monster was a fake.
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 Jackman, Mary Jane - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lappin was the pioneer merchant of the town and used to walk to Chicago and Milwaukee to buy his goods.
She was one of the pioneers who had to do with the building of the city and the impress of her life dates back to the town which she found on the banks of the river when she came to it as a young girl with her parents.
The city is better because she walked its streets and mingled in its homes for three quarters of a century.
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 Wisconsin Common Market
Helen R. Klebesadel is best known for her large-scale watercolors, which are exhibited in Wisconsin, as well as nationally and internationally.
Dandelion Ventures is located in rural Northwestern Wisconsin and deals in many "ventures" or venues of creative works done by the area's artists.
Diane M. Splinter works in her rural southwestern Wisconsin studio and has been enjoying the process of watercolor painting for many years.
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 Waupaca County vacation information on parks, hiking & ski trails, museums & area events
The establishment of cheese factories, with their demand for a steady supply of milk and the University of Wisconsin's dairy extension services revolutionized the area's agricultural industry and transformed Waupaca County into one of the nation's leading dairy producers.
The area's history is also reflected in well-preserved and restored historic architectural treasures; log structures and 19th Century residences and commercial buildings that continue to house and serve the county's residents.
Located in east central Wisconsin along U.S. Highway 10 and Wis. Highways 22, 49 and 54, Waupaca is 90 miles from Madison, 125 miles from Milwaukee, 210 miles from Chicago and 240 miles from Minneapolis/St. Paul.
www.explorewisconsin.com /countypages/waupaca.html   (2173 words)

  
 Top20Madison.com - Your Top20Guide to Madison, WI.
Further, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band [14] is one of the most popular marching bands in the nation, with an extensive and eclectic repertoire.
Museums include the University of Wisconsin's Chazen Museum of Art[15] (formerly the Elvehjem Museum[16]), the Wisconsin Historical Museum[17] (run by the Wisconsin State Historical Society), the Wisconsin Veteran's Museum[18], the Madison Children's Museum[19], and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Wisconsin State Capitol is the jewel of the Madison skyline, and can be seen throughout Madison and the surrounding areas, due to a city ordinance that limits the heights of surrounding buildings.
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 Doty's Island
When Jonathan Carver passed the island on his way up the Fox river in 1764 he found an Indian queen who reigned over the Winnebago Indians living there.
She was named "Glory of the Morning." The island is named after Gov. Doty, who formerly owned it and lived there.
[Source: Wisconsin: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form, ed.
www.wisconsinhistory.org /dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=10420&search_term=doty   (120 words)

  
 EH.Net Encyclopedia: Money in the American Colonies
In some instances, country pay was declared a legal tender for all private debts, although contracts explicitly requiring another form of payment might be exempted (Gottfried, 1936; Judd, 1905, pp.
Sometimes country pay was only a legal tender in payment of obligations to the colonial or town governments.
Even where country pay was a legal tender only in payment of taxes, it was often used in private transactions and even served as a unit of account.
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 Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
1912, by Hollister, Delavan, Wisconsin, concerning the settlement and growth of the area and youthful experiences; and one letter, 1839, written by his mother describing the family's trip from New York to Wisconsin and their new surroundings.
Thomas Huey in which she reminisces about her life in Dunn County, Wisconsin, between 1863 and 1883; and a postcard from Henry E. Knapp in which he comments on the address.
Included is a 34-page typewritten description by Salter of his departure from England; travels (1843-1864) in Wisconsin to Portage, Reedsburg, and Kilbourn City, and down the Mississippi River to New Orleans; life in Wisconsin; and an account of his brutal slaying of two Native Americans suspected of murdering his wife.
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