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In 2000, Wisconsin had 3.6 million licensed motorists and 4.7 million registered vehicles.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

One of the state’s most scenic rivers is the Kickapoo (or crooked river), which meanders for 120 miles in southwest Wisconsin past Wildcat Mountain State Park.

first appeared: 12/22/2002

With 72 runs on a 700-foot mountain, Granite Peak in Wausau (pop. 38,426) is the state’s largest and tallest ski area.

first appeared: 12/15/2002

Door County has more than 250 miles of shoreline, more than any other county in the nation.

first appeared: 12/8/2002

Candy canes are cooked and crooked by hand at Melli Chocolates in Cambridge (pop. 1,101), a family business since 1940.

first appeared: 12/1/2002

At the 52nd Kraut Festival last June in Franksville (pop. 1,789), Brenda Lashley ate more than a pound of kraut in two minutes to win the women’s world kraut-eating championship.

first appeared: 11/24/2002

In 1866, William Benjamin Place founded Hartford (pop. 10,905) and established a tannery, W.B. Place, which still operates today.

first appeared: 11/17/2002

In the 1840s, fur trader Hercules Dousman of Prairie du Chien (pop. 6,018) became the state’s first millionaire and built Villa Louis, a Victorian estate that now is a national landmark.

first appeared: 11/10/2002

Chartered in 1847, Lawrence University in Appleton was one of the country’s first colleges to be founded as a coeducational school.

first appeared: 11/3/2002

Stretching 13 miles across 32,000 acres, the Horicon Marsh in Horicon (pop. 3,775) is the nation’s largest freshwater cattail marsh.

first appeared: 10/27/2002

Established in 1848, the Red Circle Inn in Nashotah (pop. 1,266) is a former stagecoach stop and the state’s oldest restaurant.

first appeared: 10/20/2002

In 1848, Capt. Justice Bailey sought shelter during a violent storm on Lake Michigan and sailed into the cove that was later settled and named Baileys Harbor (pop. 1,003).

first appeared: 10/13/2002

Otto Zachow and William Besserdich of Clintonville (pop. 4,736) patented the first four-wheel drive mechanism in 1908.

first appeared: 10/6/2002

The state’s deadliest tornado struck New Richmond (pop. 6,310) on June 12, 1899, killing 117 people.

first appeared: 9/29/2002

Founded in 1973, the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo (pop. 10,711) is the world’s center for the study and preservation of these large wading birds.

first appeared: 9/22/2002

Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer assigned to Lake Michigan, developed guidelines for maintaining order in public meetings. In 1875, Burdick and Armitage printing company printed 4,000 copies of what became the popular Robert’s Rules of Order.

first appeared: 9/15/2002

In 1831, surveyor Lucius Lyon set a marker near Hazel Green (pop. 1,043) as the Point of Beginning in what then was Michigan Territory. It was used to establish the boundary of each county, city, and township, and position of every road, stream, and lake in the state.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

In 1932, Wisconsin became the first state to pay jobless benefits to laid-off workers.

first appeared: 9/1/2002

The sugar maple was selected the state tree by schoolchildren statewide in 1893. Another vote by schoolchildren in 1948 reaffirmed support for the sugar maple and in 1949 the Legislature declared it the official state tree.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

In the 1950s, schoolchildren in Woodruff (pop. 1,982) began saving a million pennies to help Dr. Kate Newcomb build a hospital. Newcomb appeared on television’s This is Your Life in 1954 and more than $100,000 poured in. Lakeland Memorial Hospital opened that year.

first appeared: 8/18/2002

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