Experience the charm of the past at Old Falls Village, nestled within a stunning 17-acre park in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. This captivating living history museum offers a glimpse into life from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, with an array of histori
SABRINA LEE grew up in Mundelein, Illinois and joined our team in 2023. Her love of architecture was inspired in part by her grandfather, who built his own home and several cabins in Wisconsin. While working towards her Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, she added a ...
In 1980 he was convicted of having violated the civil rights of people thought to be associated with members of the Weather Underground, by ordering FBI agents to break into their homes and search the premises as part of an attempt to prevent bombings. He was ordered to pay a fine, but w...
The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere”. Despite Granger’s announcement, some slave owners ...
March: Bennett-Arcan party leaves Wisconsin in search of gold. June 27: Edward F. Beale weds Mary Edwards, daughter of U.S. Rep. Samuel Edwards (Penn.). August 15: Eight-pound gold nugget found in San Feliciano Canyon. September 1: Constitutional Convention held at Monterey. October 7: ...
Also, all built environment indicators significantly mediated the association between neighborhood racial and ethnic composition and health outcomes (eAppendix 6 in Supplement 1). The most significant mediator was non–single family homes, which mediated the association between neighborhoods with predominantly...
She senses the army’s arrival might not be as innocent as it seems, but her warnings go unheeded. Not even MacIain, the MacDonald clan chief, listens. After twelve days of billeting in the villagers’ homes, the soldiers attack, committing one of the greatest atrocities in Highland ...
“Unwittingly, her informants opened up their homes and hearts to her, completely unaware of the real purpose of her research,” wrote Kevin Dann and Christie Carter in From Degeneration to Regeneration: The Eugenics Survey of Vermont, 1925-1936....
The first established settlement in Rough and Ready was made in the fall of 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as the Rough and Ready Company. Their leader, Captain A. A. Townsend, named the company after General Zachary Taylor (nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready") who had recentl...
The theory pertains to stone even after it was removed from its quarry. Cut stone was used in buildings that seemed to retain paranormal potential. Stories abound locally of paranormal activity in and around homes and forests in and near Lemont, especially those that are built with stone from ...