Familiar to many Wisconsinites, the Door County fish boil is more than just a cookout, it is a social experience. It begins when guests arrive early to sit outside around a crackling fire, where they enjoy a drink selected from the beverage…
Kechewaishke (1759 â 1855), also known as Chief Buffalo, Peezhickee, and Le Boeuf, led the Lake Superior Ojibwe people of La Pointe, the location of Madeline Island today. Kechewaishke was instrumental to signing treaty agreements between the Wisconsin Ojibwe people and the…
As settlers continued moving westward during the nineteenth century, the United States was a mix of states and large territories. From 1805-1837, Wisconsin was part of the Michigan territory. James Duane Doty spearheaded the movement to create partitions in the Michigan territory, …
As was so often the case with major American businesses in the 1800s, the Kohler Company grew from modest roots. The companyâs founder, John Michael Kohler, began his working life first as a delivery truck driver and then a salesman. Born in…
When we think of a âbathroom,â we usually imagine a room containing three standard fixturesâa bathtub, a sink, and a toilet. Bathrooms such as these are so universal in homes today that we can hardly imagine a time when they did not…
M.C. Rotier, the publisher and editor of The Pneumatic, a Wisconsin periodical and trade journal dedicated to bicycles in the 1890s, called bicycling âthe most independent, healthful, rapid, and convenient mode of travelâ in the nineteenth century.[1] Rotier, a leading bicycle advocate…