Greetings from Wisconsin
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Greetings from Wisconsin
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Wisconsin W isconsin achieved statehood in 1848 and is called the Badger State because some of the state’s original settlers were lead miners who burrowed holes into the ground, like badgers, to serve as makeshift homes. 1848 Helpful Contacts: The State of Wisconsin www.wisconsin.gov Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce www.wmc.org Wisconsin Department of Tourism PO Box 7976 Madison, WI 53707-7976 From within the state of Wisconsin, call: 1-800-372-2737 From outside the state of Wisconsin, call: 1-800-432-8747 Email: [email protected] www.tourism.state.wi.us -ORwww.travelwisconsin.com Wisconsin Historical Society 816 State Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-264-6400 www.wisconsinhistory.org “Bucky Badger” is also the name of the mascot for the University of WisconsinMadison, the state’s flagship university and one of the top research universities in the world. Madison is Wisconsin’s capital, but Milwaukee is the largest city. Scott Walker is Wisconsin’s governor. The majority of Wisconsin’s 5.7 million people live in the southern part of the state, with the heaviest concentration along the southeastern corridor, including Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha Counties. Wisconsin is called “America’s Dairyland” because of the dairy industry. Wisconsin is second in the U.S. in total cow milk production behind California, but produces more whey and cheese than any other state, which is why Wisconsinites are sometimes called “Cheeseheads.” Wisconsin is also number one in goat milk production, mink pelts, corn for silage, cranberries, ginseng and snap beans. Wisconsin is also a leader in green beans, carrots, potatoes, peas, onions and cabbage production. But agriculture is not Wisconsin’s number one industry; manufacturing is. In fact, Wisconsin has the most manufacturing jobs in the nation on a per capita basis. Among many other things, Wisconsin companies make motorcycles (Harley Davidson), dolls (American Girl), bicycles (Trek), ships and yachts (Marinette Marine, Bay Shipbuilding, Palmer Johnson), boat engines (Mercury, Evinrude), snow blowers (Ariens), lawn mowers (Briggs & Stratton), military vehicles (Oshkosh), mining equipment (Caterpillar, P&H), fire trucks (Pierce, Seagrave, Marion Body Works, Custom Fire Apparatus), tractors (J. I. Case, John Deere), bathroom fixtures (Kohler), household consumer products (S.C. Johnson Wax), soy sauce (Kikkoman) and shoes (Allen-Edmonds). Our third largest industry is tourism. People come to Wisconsin primarily from around the American Midwest to enjoy more than 12,000 lakes and many other attractions. Wisconsin’s most popular tourist destination is the Wisconsin Dells, which calls itself the Water Park Capital of the World. Door County (the “thumb” of the state) is also very popular. It has more shoreline than any other county in the U.S. Wisconsin Department of Agriculture PO Box 8934 Madison, WI 53708 Phone: 1-800-789-9277 www.datcp.state.wi.us Bucky Badger Wheel of Cheese State Capitol Building Apostle Islands Famous Wisconsinites Wisconsin boasts many famous Americans in multiple fields, including the arts, science, architecture, politics and the military. Military Entertainers ü Richard Bong was known as the greatest fighter ace of World War II. Bong shot down 40 Japanese planes in his P-38 Lighting. ü John Bradley was a U.S. Navy corpsman who helped erect the American Flag on Mt. Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima during World War II. ü James Lovell was born in Ohio, but grew up in Milwaukee. Lovell is best known for commanding the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 that overcame a major malfunction. ü Admiral Daniel Leahy was born in Iowa, but grew up Wisconsin. He became the first Five-Star Fleet Admiral in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, Leahy served as the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. ü General William “Billy” Mitchell is considered the father of the U.S. Air Force. He pioneered the use of aircraft as bombers, particularly against naval targets. ü Donald “Deke” Slayton was one of America’s original Mercury astronauts. ü Don Ameche, Oscar winning actor ü Willem Dafoe, actor ü Heather Graham, actor ü Chris Farley, comedian ü Harry Houdini, magician (born in Hungary) ü Liberace, musician ü Jackie Mason, comedian ü Steve Miller, musician ü Spencer Tracy, Oscar winning actor ü Les Paul, musician ü Charles and John Ringling, circus entrepreneurs ü Tony Shalhoub, actor ü Gene Wilder, actor ü Orson Welles, actor/director Government Officials ü Les Aspin was a congressman and served as Secretary of Defense from 1993-1994. ü Lawrence Eagleburger served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1992-1993. ü George F. Kennan is credited with establishing the American Cold War policy of “containment.” ü Melvin Laird was a congressman and served as Secretary of Defense from 1969-1973. ü William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1986-2005. ü Tommy Thompson is Wisconsin’s longest serving governor (1987-2001) who also served as U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services from 2001-2005. Cranberries Milwaukee Others ü Stephen Ambrose, historian ü Jeanne Dixon, psychic ü Eric Heiden, Five-time Olympic gold medalist speed skater ü Aldo Leopold, author ü John Muir, naturalist (born in Scotland) ü Georgia O’Keeffe, artist ü Laura Ingalls Wilder, author ü Thornton Wilder, author ü Frank Lloyd Wright, architect ABOUT WMC Founded in 1911, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) is a combination of the state Chamber of Commerce, state Manufacturers Association and Wisconsin Safety Council. WMC is the Wisconsin’s largest business association representing nearly 3,500 employers of all sizes and from every sector of the economy. Lambeau Field Home of the Green Bay Packers Great Lakes Freighter A Summary of Wisconsin History P rior to the arrival of Europeans, Wisconsin was inhabited by various Indian tribes, including the Menominee, Kickapoo, Miami, Winnebago, Dakota (Sioux), Iowa, Fox, Sauk, Potawatomi and Ojibewa (Chippewa). In 1634, Frenchman Jean Nicolet was the first European explorer to reach Wisconsin via Green Bay. France lost control of Wisconsin after its defeat 1910 painting of Jean Nicolet’s 1634 arrival in Wisconsin. to Great Britain in the French and Indian War (17541763). Wisconsin officially became part of the United States after the British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown (1781), which ended the American Revolutionary War. Most of Wisconsin’s white settlers were fur traders until the 1820s when lead miners came to what is now the southwestern part of the state. These miners built makeshift homes by burrowing into the ground and were nicknamed “badgers.” The miners displaced native Sauk Indians who eventually attempted to return to their lands sparking the Black Hawk War in 1832. The war ended with a crushing Indian defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe. Wisconsin became the 30th state on May 29, 1848. In the early 1840s, Norwegian immigrants settled in central Wisconsin. By the late 1840s, large numbers of German immigrants made their way to the state, many settling in Milwaukee. Wisconsin lead miners, nicknamed “badgers,” in the 1800s. Prior to the American Civil War, Wisconsin was a hotbed of the anti-slave or abolitionist movement, which led to the founding of the Republican Party in Ripon in 1854. The Civil War began in 1861. Many Wisconsin units served with distinction, including the 2nd, 6th and 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiments that, along with the 19th Indiana and 24th Michigan Regiments, formed the famous “Iron Brigade” or “Black Hat Brigade.” By war’s end, more than 90,000 Wisconsinites fought for the Union. During the Battle of Chattanooga in 1863, 18-year-old Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur, Jr. of the 24th Wisconsin Regiment rallied his troops during a charge up Missionary Ridge by crying “On Wisconsin!” MacArthur, who was the son of Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor and the future father of Five Star General Douglas MacArthur of World War II fame, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics. After the war, logging dominated the economy of northern Wisconsin, while Milwaukee was fast becoming a manufacturing center that would eventually be dubbed the “machine tool capital of the world.” In much of the rest of the state dairy overtook wheat as the state’s primary agricultural product. Member of the “Black Hat Brigade.” ~ continued ~ Wisconsin championed the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century. Under Governor Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Wisconsin became the first state to enact a statewide primary election system, the first workers compensation law and the first state-level income tax. In 1932, Wisconsin was the first state to enact unemployment compensation law. Former American Motors Lake Front Plant, Kenosha. Wisconsin’s manufacturing sector continued to grow leading up to the beginning of World War I. Factories in Beloit, Milwaukee and Racine recruited large numbers of African American workers from the American South as part of the Great Migration. When war was declared with Germany, Wisconsin became the first state to meet its draft requirement. More than 120,000 Wisconsinites served in the military during the “Great War.” The “Dow Day Protests” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1967. Wisconsin continued its patriotic reputation during World War II by sending more than 332,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines to fight in the European and Pacific theatres. In the late 1960s, the University of Wisconsin-Madison became one of the centers of the anti-Vietnam War movement, which culminated with the bombing of the Army Math Research Center (Sterling Hall) on campus in 1970. One graduate student was killed in the blast, which was the largest act of domestic terror in the U.S. until Oklahoma City in 1995. Governor Scott Walker becomes the first U.S. governor to win a recall election, June 2012. In 2011, Madison was again the location of massive protests, this time against Republican Governor Scott Walker’s reforms to limit collective bargaining privileges for public employees. The backlash led to an attempt to recall Walker. But in 2012, Walker became the first U.S. governor to win a recall election. Walker followed that victory with another in 2014 and in doing so won his third election for governor in four-years (2010, 2012, 2014). Today, Wisconsin has a Republican governor (Walker) and a Republican controlled legislature. But the state is far from dominated by the GOP. President Obama carried the state in 2012 despite having Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket (Romney-Ryan). The last Republican presidential candidate to carry Wisconsin was Ronald Reagan in 1984. Wisconsin Maps Wisconsin Facts & Trivia FACTS TRIVIA ü Population: 5,711,767 in 2011 (20th in the U.S.) ü State Capital: Madison (population 568,593) ü Largest City: Milwaukee (population 594,833) ü Median Household Income: $47,220 (15th in the U.S.) ü Governor: Scott Walker, Republican ü U.S. Senators: Ron Johnson, Republican; Tammy Baldwin, Democrat ü U.S. House Delegation: 5 Republicans, 3 Democrats ü Electoral Votes: 10 ü Statehood: May 29, 1848 (30th State) ü Nickname: Badger State, America’s Dairyland ü Name Origin: Wisconsin is an Indian word, but the origins are disputed. Some say it is an Algonquian word meaning “long river.” Others say it is a Chippewa/Ojibwa word that means “grassy place” or “gathering of the waters.” ü Highest Point: Tim’s Hill; 1,952 ft, 595 m ü Land Area: 65,497.82 sq. mi.; 169,639 km (23rd largest in U.S.) ü Number of Counties: 72 ü Animal: Badger ü Wild Life Animal: White-tailed deer ü Domestic Animal: Dairy cow ü Bird: Robin ü Flower: Wood Violet ü Tree: Sugar Maple ü Song: “On Wisconsin” ü Fish: Musky (muskellunge) ü Beverage: Milk ü Dance: Polka ü Mineral: Galena ü Rock: Red Granite ü Insect: Honeybee ü Grain: Corn ü Wisconsin has more than 12,000 lakes and more than 7,400 rivers and streams. ü The first hydroelectric plant in the U.S. was built on the Fox River near Appleton in 1882. ü The first practical typewriter was designed in Milwaukee in 1867. ü Wausau is the Ginseng Capital of the World. ü Wisconsin has more than 15,000 miles of snowmobile trails. ü The first kindergarten in the U.S. was established in Watertown in 1856. ü The National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward is shaped like a Muskie. ü The first ice cream sundae was made in Two Rivers in 1881. ü The Republican Party was founded in Ripon in 1854. ü The Hamburger was first created in Seymour in 1885. ü With an average of 2,500 performers, Milwaukee’s Summerfest is the nation’s largest music festival. ü Green Bay is Wisconsin’s oldest city and the smallest city in the U.S. with a major professional sports franchise, the Green Bay Packers. ü The Packers have won more NFL championships than any other team, including four Super Bowls. ü Wisconsin has two national parks (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore; St. Croix National Scenic Riverway), two national forests, 13 state forests, 46 state parks and 11 recreation areas. ü Wisconsin has 2,231 National Register of Historic Places listings. Wisconsin State Flag Created during the American Civil War, Wisconsin’s state flag was officially adopted in 1913. PLOW: The plow represents agriculture. FORWARD: State motto. BADGER: Wisconsin is known as the “Badger State.” PICK/SHOVEL: The pick and shovel represent mining. SAILOr: Wisconsin borders Lake Superior — the largest of the Great Lakes — to the north and Lake Michigan to the east. The Mississippi River serves as Wisconsin’s western border. These bodies of water are important for transportation, fishing and recreation. Miner: Early European settlers were lead miners. Wisconsin has other mineral resources, including iron, zinc, copper and even gold. e pluribus unum: The U.S. arm/hammer: The arm and hammer represent industry. motto “Out of Many, One.” ANCHOR: The anchor represents shipping. CORNUCOPIA: Cornucopia symbolizes a bountiful harvest. 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