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Liberace, the flamboyant piano-playing showman, was born Wladziu Valentino Liberace on May 16, 1919, in West Allis. His Italian father played the French horn, and his Polish mother played the piano.

first appeared: 11/4/2001

In 1872, in Neenah (pop. 24,507), John Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles Clark, and Frank Shattuck pooled $30,000 to form Kimberly-Clark Co., the maker of Kleenex.

first appeared: 10/28/2001

Kenosha’s Harmony Hall, headquarters of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, has more than 750,000 sheets of music and 120,000 different titles.

first appeared: 10/21/2001

The state’s newest state historic park is the H.H. Bennett Studio and History Center in the Wisconsin Dells (pop. 2,418). Bennett brought the Dells to the attention of the outside world through the photos he took in the 19th century.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

The 65-foot-tall lighthouse at Cana Island was the tallest brick structure in Door County when it was built in 1869 on the shore of Lake Michigan.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

In the 1880s, Scandinavian immigrants started the fish boils that remain popular in Door County. Whitefish or lake trout are put into large pots of boiling water with potatoes and onions.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

Although often associated with living on the Great Plains, some Sioux Indians originally lived in the woodlands near present-day Mellen (pop. 845).

first appeared: 9/23/2001

The state’s sole remaining covered bridge crosses Cedar Creek in Covered Bridge Park, north of Cedarburg (pop. 10,908). Built in 1876, its boards are secured with 2-inch thick hardwood pins.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

With 33 people, the volunteer fire department in Amery (pop. 2,845) provides protection over an area of 75 square miles with some 10,000 residents.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Scott Winner, owner of Little Norway, a historical village in Blue Mounds (pop. 708), is the great-grandnephew of Isak Dahle, who started building the attraction in 1927.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

Each August, Seymour (pop. 3,335) celebrates the birth of the hamburger, which resulted when Charles Nagreen mashed a meatball between two pieces of bread in 1885.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

At 165 feet, Big Manitou Falls on the Black River in Pattison State Park is the highest waterfall in the state.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

With more than 100 lakes within a 10-mile radius containing muskellunge, Boulder Junction calls itself the “Musky Capital of the World.”

first appeared: 8/12/2001

Founded in 1855, Tomah (pop. 8,419) is named after Thomas Caron or “Tomah”—the French pronunciation of Thomas—a prominent Menominee Indian chief.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

While living in Weyauwega (pop. 1,806), Robert Bloch wrote the book Psycho in 1957.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

Whitefish Dunes State Park, near the town of Whitefish Bay (pop. 12,841), has the largest sand dunes in Wisconsin. One dune, “Old Baldy,” is more than 90 feet above nearby Lake Michigan.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

While living in Racine in 1883, Englishman William Horwick was granted a U.S. patent for malted milk. Initially, the powdered product was mixed with hot water to be fed to infants.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

A former railroad depot at Kendall (pop. 504) is headquarters of the 32-mile-long Elroy-Sparta State Bike Trail, the first rails-to-trails project in the nation.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

Football coach John Heisman, after whom the Heisman Trophy is named, was buried in Rhinelander (pop. 8,363) after he died Oct. 3, 1936, at the age of 66. He often is called the creator of the forward pass, center snap, hidden ball play, and many other facets of the game.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

Working for the French, Henry de Tonty was the first Italian in Wisconsin when he arrived near Manitowoc in 1678.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

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