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The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin ...
6 lis 2009 · Interesting Facts. Wisconsin became a U.S. territory following the American Revolution and soon after began attracting settlers looking for work in its mining, lumber and dairy industries. It was...
History. The area known as Wisconsin was first inhabited by various Native American tribes. The Chippewa, Menominee, Oneida, Potawatomi and Ho Chunk (Winnebago) tribes lived in the area until the late 1800s. The first European explorer to reach Wisconsin was Jean Nicolet.
Learn about Wisconsin's role in the Civil War, research more than 12 million historical records on McCormick-International Harvester, or check out more than 25,000 historical maps of the U.S. and Canada.
6 dni temu · Early history. Paleo-Indians, the earliest ancestors of Native Americans, arrived in what is now Wisconsin during or after the retreat of the last continental glacier, about 12,000 years ago. They built effigy mounds, of which at least 20 remain in the Madison area alone. When the first European explorers reached the Wisconsin region in the ...
6 dni temu · Wisconsin, constituent state of the U.S. It was admitted to the union as the 30th state in 1848. It is bounded to the north by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the east by Lake Michigan, to the south by Illinois, and to the west by Minnesota and Iowa.
The Wisconsin landscape we know today emerged about 13,000 years ago when the last glacier of the last ice age retreated. It left our region bordered by the Mississippi River on the west, Lake Michigan on the east, and Lake Superior on the north.
