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Read more about the article The Cherry Industry in Door County
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Door County / Cherryland T-Shirt / Region 5 - Center East / Related Stories / Manufacturing & Trade / Food & Cooking / 1880-1900 / 1900-1920 / Nature & Environment / 1920-1940 / 1940-1960 / Transportation & Tourism

The Cherry Industry in Door County

While early European immigrants in Door County survived by subsistence farming, efforts in later years to grow cash crops proved challenging, due in large part to the area’s rocky landscape. Despite little success with traditional crops, Door County residents continued to look…

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July 1, 2017
Read more about the article Ozaukee County Draft Riot
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Ozaukee County / Draft Drum / Region 8 - South East / Related Stories / Politics, Society & Government / 1860-1880

Ozaukee County Draft Riot

Following the South’s attack on Fort Sumter in 1861, Wisconsin, and the North as a whole, experienced a surge in patriotism and an eagerness to fight for the North, offering more volunteers than were needed. Due to the flood of new recruits,…

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June 1, 2017
Read more about the article The Settlement House Movement
Scene from Poale Zion Chasidim, an Americanization pageant held in the Milwaukee auditorium to welcome Milwaukee’s new citizens, 1919. Image courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, ID: 5348.
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The Settlement House Movement

Mass immigration from eastern and southern Europe dramatically altered America’s ethnic and religious composition around the turn of the twentieth century. Unlike earlier immigrants, who had largely come from western European countries like Britain, Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia, the new immigrants came…

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May 1, 2017
Read more about the article Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander
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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander

The first generation of women—mostly white and middle- or upper-class—to graduate from college in large numbers left school full of promise and enthusiasm, but were largely denied employment in medicine, law, or business. Rejected by the professional world, many focused their energies…

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May 1, 2017

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