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Dr. Kate Newcomb was known as the Angel on Snowshoes because she often used snowshoes to visit patients around Woodruff (pop. 1,982) during the winters between 1931 and 1956.

first appeared: 3/24/2002

Uplands Cheese Co. in Dodgeville (pop. 4,220) won Best of Show in the American Cheese Society’s annual competition last August for its Pleasant Ridge Reserve, a semi-hard, washed rind cheese.

first appeared: 3/17/2002

The Yellowstone Trail, one of the nation’s early transcontinental roads, ran “from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound” in the early 1900s—including 406 miles through Wisconsin.

first appeared: 3/10/2002

Called a motorcycle for snow, the Chrysler SnoRunner was built in Hartford (pop. 10,905) between 1979 and 1981 when production ceased for economic reasons.

first appeared: 3/3/2002

Opened in 1937, Granite Peak Ski Area on Rib Mountain near Wausau (pop. 38,426) is the state’s oldest ski resort.

first appeared: 2/24/2002

The black bear, which is common to the state, can outrun a horse over short distances and is a very good climber and swimmer as well.

first appeared: 2/17/2002

Each year, state tree nurseries in Boscobel, Hayward, and Wisconsin Rapids sow hundreds of pounds of seed to produce more than 20 million seedlings used to reforest the Badger State.

first appeared: 2/10/2002

C. Latham Sholes, former editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, invented the first commercial typewriter in 1873. The bulky machine, which typed only capital letters, was manufactured by gun makers E. Remington & Sons.

first appeared: 2/3/2002

In 1634, French explorer Jean Nicolet reportedly was the first European to visit Wisconsin, landing at Green Bay, which he named for its greenish water.

first appeared: 1/27/2002

Colfax (pop. 1,136) is named after Schuyler Colfax, who served as vice president under Ulysses S. Grant.

first appeared: 1/20/2002

Great Lakes Kraut Co. in Bear Creek (pop. 415) is the world’s largest sauerkraut manufacturer, producing 48,000 tons a year.

first appeared: 1/13/2002

The St. Croix and Wolf rivers in northern Wisconsin were among the first waterways protected by the 1968 federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

first appeared: 1/6/2002

Boy Scouts in La Crosse made what the Guinness Book of World Records reported was the world’s largest popcorn ball in September 1995. It weighed 2,377 pounds.

first appeared: 12/30/2001

Starting on the state’s northern border at Lac Vieux Desert, the Wisconsin River is the longest in the state, flowing 430 miles to its confluence with the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien (pop. 6,018).

first appeared: 12/23/2001

The world’s largest cheese, a Cheddar made for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, weighed 17 tons and was eaten in 1965 at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Dairymen and Cheesemakers Association. A replica is displayed in Neillsville (pop. 2,731).

first appeared: 12/16/2001

When the Shopiere Dam, built in 1848 at Shopiere, was removed from Turtle Creek in the summer of 2000, it restored 30 miles of free-flowing waters in Rock County.

first appeared: 12/9/2001

The beacon of Devil’s Island Lighthouse near Bayfield (pop. 625), first lighted Sept. 30, 1891, still flashes across western Lake Superior.

first appeared: 12/2/2001

The muskellunge is the official state fish. The state record, caught on the Chippewa Flowage near Hayward (pop. 3,279) Oct. 20, 1949, weighed 69 pounds, 11 ounces.

first appeared: 11/25/2001

Constructed in 1886, the Union Church was the first church built in Altoona (pop. 6,698). Baptist, Episcopal, German Lutheran, Methodist, and Scandinavian Lutheran congregations all shared the church for their services before it was destroyed by fire in 1926.

first appeared: 11/18/2001

Born in 1854 in Oshkosh, Elizabeth “Baby Doe” McCourt later moved to Colorado, where she married Horace Tabor, who had become rich in the silver mines. At one time, McCourt was worth $11 million.

first appeared: 11/11/2001

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