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The state won 49 percent of all awards given out in the 2003 United States Champion Cheese Contest, which included 681 entries from 21 states.

first appeared: 2/15/2004

Wildlife found in the state today includes deer, coyotes, foxes, bald eagles, bear, wolves, elk (recently reintroduced) and beaver.

first appeared: 2/8/2004

The nation’s first kindergarten was established in Watertown (pop. 20,563) in 1856 for local German-speaking youngsters. The word kindergarten means “children’s garden” in German.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

The Green Bay Packers have the oldest team name in the National Football League. The name was derived from the team’s ties to the Indian (meat) Packing Co., which donated $500 for uniforms and equipment in 1919.

first appeared: 1/25/2004

In 1872, Charles Benjamin Clark, a 28-year-old Civil War veteran, recruited John A. Kimberly to join him in building a paper mill in Neenah. It was the first of many such mills for Kimberly-Clark.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The state’s symbol of peace is the mourning dove, named for the mournful “cooing” sound it makes.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

Baraboo (pop. 1,828) was the winter home of the original Ringling Brothers Circus, established in 1884.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

Thousands of migrating tundra swans descend on Rieck’s Lake Park in Alma (pop. 942) each fall before continuing eastward.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

The Round Table, the student newspaper at Beloit College in Beloit (pop. 35,775), marks its 150th anniversary this year.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Whimsical trolls carved in tree trunks entertain along the Trollway in the town of Mount Horeb (pop. 5,860).

first appeared: 12/14/2003

At 350 feet, Wazee Lake in Black River Falls (pop. 3,618) is the state’s deepest lake.

first appeared: 12/7/2003

The Aluminum Specialty Co. in Manitowoc (pop. 34,053) marketed the nation’s first aluminum Christmas tree in 1959. The company described it as permanent, not artificial.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

In 1967, “America’s Dairyland” became the last state to allow yellow coloring to be added to margarine.

first appeared: 11/23/2003

In 1898 and 1899, itinerate artist Ernest Hupeden painted scenes, including the Battle of Manila, on every wall of the Modern Woodmen of America hall in Valton. The building is preserved as the Painted Forest Folk Art Museum.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Hundreds of thousands of bats hang out at the abandoned Neda Mine in Dodge County, one of the Midwest’s largest bat hibernation sites.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

The Midwest’s largest carriage driving competition takes place each September at the Villa Louis Carriage Classic in Prairie du Chien (pop. 6,108).

first appeared: 11/2/2003

Muscoda (pop. 1,453), the “Morel Mushroom Capital of Wisconsin,” feasts on the fungi at a festival each May.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

In 1932, Whitman Publishing in Racine introduced its series of Big Little Books with The Adventures of Dick Tracy. The compact 10-cent book measured about 4-inches square with an illustration opposite each page of text.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Gays Mill (pop. 625) is ripe with apple orchards, grown commercially since the early 1900s along the Kickapoo River.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

Ten Chimneys, the summer retreat in Genesee Depot where actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne lived from the 1920s to 1960s, opened to the public last May after a $12.2 million restoration.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

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