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—About six miles north of Coleman (pop. 863) on U.S. Highway 141, a marker states that it is halfway between the equator and the North Pole—both 3,107 miles away.

first appeared: 2/4/2001

—The almost inaccessible Willow Flowage watershed area in north-central Wisconsin is home to at least three wolf packs, deer, bear, grouse, otter, beaver, and other wildlife.

first appeared: 1/28/2001

The Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in Green Bay pays special tribute to legendary football coach Vincent T. Lombardi.

first appeared: 1/21/2001

The Apostle Islands in southern Lake Superior were named by explorers who thought there were 12 of them. Actually, 22 of the islands exist.

first appeared: 1/14/2001

Round Barn Farm near New Richmond (pop. 5,724) is home to one of three round barns remaining in St. Croix County. The barn, which once housed dairy cows and draft horses, now houses llamas.

first appeared: 1/7/2001

With 14 large waterfalls and many smaller ones, Marinette County in the northeast part of the state calls itself the Waterfall Capital of Wisconsin.

first appeared: 12/31/2000

In 1950, Fred Smith, a local lumberjack and self-taught folk artist, began "sculpting" more than 200 legendary figures at his farm near Phillips (pop. 1,619). Smith died in 1976, but his creations remain open for public viewing at Wisconsin Concrete Park.

first appeared: 12/24/2000

Nearly 7 million people have visited the Circus World Museum in Baraboo (pop. 9,620) since it opened in 1959 to collect, preserve, and interpret American circus history at the original winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers Circus.

first appeared: 12/17/2000

American Birkebeiner, the largest cross country ski race in North America, brings about 8,000 professional and amateur skiers from around the world to the Cable area in northwest Wisconsin each February.

first appeared: 12/10/2000

Christopher Sholes of Milwaukee, with two partners, invented the first practical typewriter in 1867. It typed only capital letters because it had no shift key.

first appeared: 12/3/2000

The Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc (pop. 11,484) hosted the world premiere of The Wizard of Oz on Aug. 12, 1939. Admission cost 25 cents. The downtown theater now houses offices and shops.

first appeared: 11/26/2000

A giant fiberglass structure shaped like a leaping muskellunge is the centerpiece of the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward (pop. 2,105). The structure is four-and- one-half stories tall and 143 feet long.

first appeared: 11/19/2000

Aztalan State Park near Lake Mills (pop. 4,471) is the site of a large stockaded temple mound built by Native Americans in the 12th century. First discovered in 1836, the mound is the northernmost archeological site of the so-called Mississippian culture, which pre-dated modern Indian tribes.

first appeared: 11/12/2000

At 1,951 feet, Timms Hill in Price County is the highest point in Wisconsin.

first appeared: 11/5/2000

Belmont (pop. 880) is home to the first capitol of Wisconsin. Modest frame buildings mark the site where territorial lawmakers huddled in the fall and winter of 1836 to develop a governmental framework that evolved into the state of Wisconsin 12 years later. They met for 46 days, enacted 42 laws, and—most significantly—established Madison as the permanent capital city.

first appeared: 10/22/2000

In 1883, John Michael Kohler enameled a horse trough, added four legs, and sold it as a bathtub. Today, the Kohler Co., headquartered in Kohler (pop. 1,929), manufactures a variety of kitchen and bath accessories and employs 20,000 people worldwide.

first appeared: 10/8/2000

The first hydroelectric plant in the United States was built on the Fox River in Appleton in 1882. The plant generated 12.5 kilowatts of electricity to light two paper mills and a home.

first appeared: 9/24/2000

THE WORLD’S LARGEST-RUNNING TRIVIA contest is aired on WLFM, the radio station at Lawrence University in Appleton, each January. For the last 35 years, the station has broadcast 50 consecutive hours of trivia questions.

first appeared: 9/10/2000

Madison native John Bardeen was the first person to win the Nobel Prize for physics twice. He won with two co-recipients in 1956 for research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect. He won again in 1972, with two different co-recipients, for developing the theory of superconductivity.

first appeared: 8/27/2000

The first ice cream sundae was concocted in Two Rivers (pop. 13,088) in 1881 when George Hallauer asked soda fountain owner Edward C. Berner to top a dish of ice cream with chocolate sauce, previously used only for ice cream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel and quickly became popular.

first appeared: 8/13/2000

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