Baraboo is home to the Circus World Museum, the former headquarters and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus and now the largest library of circus information in the United States. This living museum has a collection of circus wagons, and occasionally hosts the Great Circus Parade of these artifacts through the streets of Baraboo.
Baraboo is also home to the International Crane Foundation, an organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the world's 15 species of crane.
Aldo Leopold's Shack and Farm, celebrated in his famous book A Sand County Almanac (1949) is near Baraboo.
Notable People
Stan Barnes, Hall of Fame college football player, judge and assistant attorney general of the United States
Tiny Cahoon, NFL player
Randy Chestnut, comedian
Evan Alfred Evans, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
Henry C. Hansbrough, U.S. Senator from North Dakota
John J. Jenkins, U.S. Representative Belle Case La Follette lived with her family near Baraboo.
Len Koenecke, MLB player
Aldo Leopold, naturalist
Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets
John Ringling North, circus
Beryl Newman, Medal of Honor recipient
Mike Reinfeldt, NFL player and executive Ringling Brothers, circus
Bradbury Robinson, threw the first forward pass in football history, grew up in Baraboo
Algie Martin Simons, Socialist newspaper editor, attended high school in Baraboo
Terry Stieve, NFL player
Chippewa Falls
In Popular Culture
The titular character in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall ( played by Diane Keaton) grew up in Chippewa Falls. The sequence where Alvy Singer meets Annie's family takes place in the town.[6]
Chippewa Falls is mentioned in Titanic, as the birthplace and hometown of Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio). During the movie, the character recalls fishing as a boy on Lake Wissota, a man-made lake that was not created until 1917—five years after the RMS Titanic sank.[7]
In Tommy Boy, Chippewa Falls can be seen on a highway sign behind the fighting traveling companions Tommy Callaghan III, played by Chris Farley, and Richard Hayden, played by David Spade.[8]
The Stargate Atlantis character, Dr. Jennifer Keller is from Chippewa Falls.
Chippewa Falls is also the hometown of Dorothy McGuire's character, Pat Ruscomb, in the 1946 movie Till The End Of Time.
An instrumental rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England is named after Chippewa Falls.[9]
Musical artist Al Duvall recorded a song entitled, "When It's Ice Chopping Time (in Chippewa Falls)"[10]
Fictional G.I. Joe character Grand Slam is from Chippewa Falls.
The independently filmed movie Illegal Use of Joe Zopp was filmed in Chippewa Falls. Local resident, Mitch Pulver, played a small cameo role in the movie.[11]
In his book, Cadott the Spot that God Forgot... Not, Anthony A. Zenner, Ph.D., writes about spending time with relatives in Chippewa Falls during the 1940s and 1950s. Zenner graduated from McDonell Central Catholic High School in 1958. His educational experience there is described in Chapter VIII (... a hill to climb).
Chippewa Falls Native Judy Henske wrote many songs about life in Chippewa Falls including song about another Chippewa Falls native entitled, "The Ballad of Seymour Cray."
Seymour Cray (1925-1996) - U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded Cray Research.
Robert Anderson - Navy Cross recipient[12]
Moose Baxter - John Morris Baxter, former Major League Baseball player.
Irving J. Carr - U.S. Army Major General.
Chad Cascadden - former National Football League linebacker for the New York Jets and New England Patriots from 1995-1999.
Richard H. Cosgriff - Medal of Honor recipient
Art Crews - Former professional wrestler who is now the Jail Captain with the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department.
Charles E. "Gus" Dorais (1891-1954) - Former quarterback and kicker for the University of Notre Dame; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954. Was head coach of the Detroit Lions from 1943-1947.
Gene Ellenson - played in the National Football League in 1946.[13]
Horace Ellis - Medal of Honor recipient[14]
Nathan Glicksman ( 14 June 1870) - Yale College valedictorian in 1891.[15]
Judy Henske - singer and songwriter, once known as “the Queen of the Beatniks". She has written songs about her Chippewa roots including a song about another Chippewa Notable in "The Ballad of Seymour Cray".
John J. Jenkins - U.S. Representative. William F. Kirk (1877-1927) - nationally syndicated columnist, poet, songwriter, humorist and baseball writer.
Pat Kreitlow - a politician and member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
James J. LeCleir - U.S. Air Force Major General
Dick Leinenkugel - a politician and businessman with Leinenkugels. Served as the Wisconsin Secretary of Commerce under governor Jim Doyle.
Howard "Guitar" Luedtke - American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and musician who tours with his band, Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max.
Charles E. Mower - United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II
Thaddeus C. Pound - U.S. Representative.
Dennis B. Sullivan - U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
Tom Sykora - was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1994.[16] Sykora served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1995 until his retirement in 2003.[17]
Donald Frank Turner (1921 - 1994), legal scholar and economist who was the government's chief antitrust lawyer in the Johnson administration.[18]
Joe Vavra - former player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and current hitting coach for the Minnesota Twins. Joe was enshrined in the Chi-Hi Athletic Hall of Fame on August 27th, 2010.
Eddy Waller (14 June 1889 – 20 August 1977), film actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1929 and 1963.
Alexander Wiley - served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963.
Clintonville
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company
The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, more often known as Four Wheel Drive or just FWD, was founded in 1909 in Clintonville, Wisconsin as the Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich. Zachow and Besserdich developed and built the first successful four-wheel drive (4x4) car, the "Battleship", in 1908. Its success led to the founding of the company. "Badger" was dropped from the name in 1910, and the name was changed to FWD Corporation in 1958.
Wisconsin Central Airlines Clintonville's Municipal Airport is historically recognized as the 1944 birthplace of Wisconsin Central Airlines, which evolved to become North Central Airlines and later Republic Airlines. In 1986, Northwest Orient Airlines purchased Republic and was known simply as Northwest Airlines. In 2008, Northwest was merged into Delta Air Lines.
Notable People
Dick Bennett, basketball coach
Jean Hundertmark, legislator and 2006 Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor
Mike Jirschele, baseball
Daniel V. Speckhard, diplomat
Selmer Tilleson, Army Distinguished Service Medal recipient
Kirk Baumgartner, NAIA college football All-American at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
George Washington Blanchard, U.S. Representative
De Pere
Notable People
Arthur J. Altmeyer - Social Security commissioner
Jason Berken - pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles[citation needed]
Robert John Cornell - Roman Catholic priest, former member of the United States House of Representatives
Paul Gigot - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Ed Glick - NFL player
Mark Andrew Green - U.S. diplomat
Robert J. Havighurst - physicist
Shaun Herock - NFL executive
James F. Hughes - U.S. Representative
Thadeus Jackson - NFL assistant coach
Joseph Konopka - incarcerated terrorist known as "Dr. Chaos"
Joe LaFleur - NFL player
Scott McCurley - NFL assistant coach
Terry Anne Meeuwsen - Miss America 1973, Miss Wisconsin 1972, co-host of the "700 Club", born in De Pere
Alexander Hanchett Smith - noted mycologist
Gale Staley - MLB player
Delavan
Notable People
Gary Burghoff, actor
Willard Dillenbeck, Distinguished Service Cross recipient
Frank V. Dudley, landscape artist
Ned Hollister, zoologist
Frank B. James, U.S. Air Force general
William Moxley, U.S. Representative from Illinois
Richard Quinney, sociologist
Webb Schultz, MLB player
Alfred Delavan Thomas, United States District Court judge, North Dakota
Evan S. Tyler, North Dakota State Representative
Scott Walker, politician
Dodgeville
The Dodgeville kangaroo incident In the winter of 2005, a kangaroo mysteriously appeared hopping around in the snow on farmland just west of Dodgeville. The story was carried in news outlets throughout the country, including the Chicago Tribune and MSNBC. No one knew where the kangaroo had come from. A few days after the kangaroo first appeared, it was captured in a barn west of town and taken to the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin. Attempts to find the owner of the kangaroo were unsuccessful, and to this day no one has any idea who owned the kangaroo and how it turned up in the snows of southwestern Wisconsin. The kangaroo still resides at the Henry Vilas Zoo.
Notable People
Glenn A. Abbey, U.S. diplomat
Bill Dyke, former U.S. vice presidential candidate
Homer Fieldhouse, landscape architect
Greg Gard, basketball coach
Archie Hahn, Gold medal Olympic sprinter in the 1904 and 1906 Olympics
John "Weenie" Wilson, Hall of Fame football, basketball, and baseball coach
The Moccasin Bar. A wild assortment of fantastical taxidermy.
Kaukauna
Notable People
Steve Badger, professional poker player
Mark Belling, conservative talk-show host
Carl Giordana, athlete and activist
Norbert Hayes, NFL player
Kewaunee
Notable People
Jerry Augustine, MLB player, head coach of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers baseball team
Art Fiala, the last surviving World War I veteran from Wisconsin
Terry Jorgensen, MLB player
Thomas F. Konop, U.S. Representative
Stan Kuick, NFL player
Jack Novak, NFL player
Alvin E. O'Konski, U.S. Representative
Dena A. Smith, Wisconsin State Treasurer
Joseph Stika, U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Raymond Wilding-White, composer
Kiel
It was once known as the "Wooden Shoes" Capital of Wisconsin as it held the only wooden shoes factory in Wisconsin
Ladysmith
Notable People
Gary Beecham, artist
Lois Capps, member of the United States House of Representatives from California
Jim Leonhard, NFL player
Earl Maves, NFL player
Mike Newkirk, football player
Martin Reynolds, mayor of Ladysmith, Wisconsin State Assembly
Donald J. Hoffman, Air Force 4-star general, Commander of Air Force Material Command, Wright-Patterson AFB OH
Ron Kovic, author, Vietnam War veteran
Lake Geneva
Hugh Hefner built a Playboy Club in Lake Geneva.
Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, also owned property on the southwest side of the lake from 1988 until 1998. The popular song "Paradise City" was written about the Playboy Club. The club was closed in 1981 and converted into the Americana Resort, and later to the present Grand Geneva Resort.[3]
Lake Geneva was also home to Dungeons and Dragons creator Gary Gygax until his death in 2008.
George Lucas (Star Wars) has a residence on the south shore of Lake Geneva.
Notable People
Margaret H. Bair - U.S. Air National Guard general
Hiram Barber, Jr. - U.S. Representative from Illinois
Gary Gygax - writer and game designer; co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons
John Brayshaw Kaye - poet and politician, wrote Songs of Lake Geneva (1882)[7]
Kerwin Mathews – actor
Ryan Mathews - NASCAR driver
Buddy Melges - Olympic gold medalist, member of the America's Cup Hall of Fame Baby Face Nelson - bank robber
Harry Sauthoff - U.S. Representative
Spencer Tracy - Academy Award-winning actor
Margaret Weis - author of many fantasy series, most popularly the Dragonlance novels
Erik M. Dortch - Founder/C.E.O. of E.M.D. Records
Lake Mills
Notable People
Ernst F. Detterer, artist
Louis Westcott Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
Lancaster
High school athletics Lancaster High's football team, the "Flying Arrows," has earned six state titles since 1993, five of them since 2000.[citation needed] In 2001 the Associated Press named Coach John Hoch "state coach of the year"[5], and the Green Bay Packers/Wisconsin Football Coaches Association named him "prep football coach of the year".[6][7]. In 2003, he was inducted into the UW-River Falls Athletic Hall of Fame.[8]
Notable People
George Barnett - Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
Lisle Blackbourn - NFL head coach
John Benton Callis - U.S. Representative from Alabama
Carson Abel Roberts - U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant
General Dave Schreiner - member of the College Football Hall of Fame
William Simon U'Ren - Oregon politician
Mayville
The Mayville High School football team won the 1994 WIAA Division 4 state championship The school has also won state championships in softball (1999), cross country - girls (1993 and 1994) and basketball (1935 and 1983).
Pop Culture
American Academy Award–nominated 2006 computer animated film Monster House was set in a city named "Mayville". Co-writer Rob Schrab admits that Mayville, Wisconsin, was the inspiration for the naming of the city in Monster House.
Notable People
U.S. Representative Charles Barwig.
MLB player Bert Husting.
U.S. Senator Paul O. Husting.
U.S. Representative Edward Sauerhering.
Comic book artist, actor, writer, director and film producer Rob Schrab grew up in Mayville.
Middleton is the home of theNational Mustard Museum
In July 2007, CNN/Money and Money magazine considered Middleton the best place to live in the United States.
In July 2009, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Middleton the fourth best place to live in the United States
Notable People
Gary Close, basketball coach
Casey Cramer, football player
Tracey DeKeyser, ice hockey coach
Jon Erpenbach, Wisconsin State Senator
Russ Feingold, United States Senator from Wisconsin
Aaron Hohlbein, MLS player
Ed Janus, journalist
Bob Suter, professional hockey player, member of the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice team
Al Toon, football player
Edo de Waart, conductor and music director
Milton
Notable People
Leo Crowley, head of the Foreign Economic Administration
Mark Neumann, U.S. Representative
Mike Saunders, professional football player
David Rubitsky, World War II veteran
Albert Whitford, noted astronomer, for whom the asteroid 2301 Whitford is named.
Mock Communist Invasion - Headline
Mosinee
Notable People
Kevin Cywinski, NASCAR driver
Kole Heckendorf, football player
Sebastian Kronenwetter, pioneer, businessman, state legislator
Mock Communist Invasion On May 1, 1950, local residents acting as Communist invaders seized control of Mosinee. The action was a part of an elaborate pageant organized by the Wisconsin Department of the American Legion. The "Communists" dragged Mayor Ralph E. Kronenwetter and Police Chief Carl Gewiss out of their beds. Mayor Kronenwetter surrendered at 10:15 AM in the town's new "Red Square" with a pistol to his back. The police chief was reported to have resisted and was "liquidated." Road blocks were set up around Mosinee, the library was "purged," prices of goods were inflated for the duration of the coup, and local restaurants served Russian black bread and potato soup for lunch.[4] As he arrived at a rally to restore democracy to the community the night of May 1 Mayor Kronenwetter suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and never regained consciousness. He died five days later on May 6, 1950 at age 49. The mayor's doctor said the excitement and exertion probably contributed to his collapse. Franklin Baker, commander of the local American Legion post, said, "It was a terrible coincidence."[5] Local minister Will La Brew Bennett, 72, who, during the Communist invasion, demonstrated to the media how he would hide his Bible in the church organ if the Communists really invaded and was herded with other residents into a barbed-wire ringed "concentration camp" near "Red Square" was found dead in his bed hours after the mayor's death on May 7, 1950.[6] Footage from the "invasion" was used in the movie The Atomic Cafe.
Neenah
Neenah's Bergstrom-Mahler Museum has a world-renowned collection of glass art, comprising over 3,000 pieces, concentrating in historic paperweights and Germanic glasswork.
Neenah is the subject of the song "Where the hell is Neenah?" by Wisconsin band Cheeseheads with Attitude.
Notable People
Jack Ankerson, NFL player
George Bergstrom, designer of The Pentagon
Robert D. Bohn, U.S. Marine Corps Major General
John A. Bryan, U.S. diplomat
Elmer J. Burr, Medal of Honor recipient
Charles B. Clark, U.S. Representative
Kenneth John Conant, architectural historian, professor at Harvard University
Samuel A. Cook, U.S. Representative
Philip Daly, Edmonton, Alberta Alderman
Harold P. Forsythe, Navy Cross recipient
Jim Hall, professional boxer
Marcus Lee Hansen, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, born in Neenah
Howard Hawks, film director
Frank Bateman Keefe, U.S. Representative
Kris Kelderman, MLS player and assistant coach
Wayne Kreklow, NBA player, head coach of the Missouri Tigers women's volleyball team
Rich Loiselle, MLB player
Roger Ream, educator
Reid Ribble, politician
Ernest J.G. Rusch, Distinguished Service Cross recipient
John Schneller, NFL player
John Strange, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
Kenneth E. Stumpf, Medal of Honor recipient
Konrad Tuchscherer, professor
Ryan G. Van Cleave, author and educator
John Whitlinger, tennis player, born in Neenah
Tami Whitlinger, WTA player
Neilsville
Neillsville is featured in 1995 comedy movie Tommy Boy featuring Chris Farley and David Spade. When Paul (Rob Lowe), Tommy's Stepbrother, changes the orders in the shipping computer he changes the order for Nelson Automotive located in Neillsville, Wisonsin. He changes the order from overnight delivery to 2 week delivery. This eventually leads to the downfall of the family owned Callahan auto business which forces Tommy Callahan III (Chris Farley) to take drastic measures. It is also rumored that Neillsville pops up in the deleted scenes of the movie.
New Glarus has maintained much of its Swiss heritage and many old world traditions. More than 160 years after it was founded, Swiss-style chalets and flower boxes filled with red geraniums still grace the streets of the village. Swiss flags fly next to the American flag at many businesses and homes. Old World meat markets, restaurants, and a Swiss bakery are also found in downtown New Glarus, along with folk art, museums, and Swiss-style shops. Many Swiss customs are still alive in New Glarus, including the card game Jass, yodeling, and flag tossing.
New Glarus proportionately has one of the largest Swiss American populations anywhere in the United States, too.
In 1993 Deborah Carey and husband Dan Carey founded the New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin. In doing so, Deborah Carey became the first woman in the United States to found and operate a brewery.
Notable People
Suzy Favor-Hamilton, former University of Wisconsin and U.S. Olympic track & field athlete
Herbert Kubly, author
Walter Schindler, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral and recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star
New Holstein
Notable People
Ken Criter, former National Football League player for the Denver Broncos
Hildegarde, American cabaret singer
Gustave Moeller, painter
Edward Schildhauer, chief engineer on the Panama Canal project
Bob Schmitz, former National Football League player.
Schmitz played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings
Kurtwood Smith, actor, most notably plays Red Foreman on That 70's Show.
Marc Andreessen grew up in New Lisbon and would later create the first web browser.
Linda Balgord, an award winning Broadway performer.
Oconomowoc
The Wizard of Oz premiered at the Strand Theatre in Oconomowoc on August 12, 1939.[8]
Oconomowoc is mentioned in episodes of Law & Order, The Cosby Show and Married... with Children.
Bobby Shaftoe, fictional U.S. Marine Corps hero of Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, hailed from Oconomowoc.
The protagonist in Dave Eggers' novel You Shall Know Our Velocity is beaten up by a townie in Oconomowoc.
Oconomowoc is mentioned in Chapter XXXI of Theodore Dreiser's The Titan.
Notable People
Stuart Briscoe - Evangelical author and speaker; former senior pastor of Elmbrook Church, the largest church in Wisconsin[9]
Jill Briscoe - Evangelical author and speaker[9]
Dirk J. Debbink - U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, Chief of Navy Reserve[10]
Glenn Derby - NFL player[11]
Steven Foti - Wisconsin politician[12]
Byron L. Johnson - U.S. Representative from Colorado[13]
John Kaiser - NFL player[14]
Andy Thompson, MLB player[15]
Jane Wiedlin - rhythm guitarist of The Go-Go's, actress
Omro
Notable People
Andy Jorgensen, politician
Louis Leroy, MLB player
Alvin E. O'Konski, politician
Delbert Philpott, soldier and scientist
A Sunfish
Onalaska
Onalaska is known as "The Sunfish Capital of the World."
Notable People
Biddy Dolan, MLB player
Tim Gullikson, tennis player
Tom Gullikson, tennis player
Tom Newberry, football player [4]
Frank Pooler, choral director and songwriter ("Merry Christmas Darling") [5]
William H. Stevenson, U.S. Representative
Park Falls
Notable People
Shane Frederick, MIT management science professor
David Greenwood (football player), NFL safety for three seasons
Luke Timothy Johnson, theologian and writer
James LaLonde, American Bicycle Racer, National Champion
Peshtigo Fire Cemetery
Peshtigo
Peshtigo Fire On October 8, 1871, a forest fire driven by strong winds totally consumed Peshtigo along with a dozen other villages, killing 1,200 to 2,500 people and charring approximately 1.5 million acres (6,000 km²). This fire, known as the Peshtigo Fire, is the deadliest in American history. Unidentifiable remains of hundreds of residents were buried in a mass grave at the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery. The Peshtigo Fire Museum features several items that survived the fire, plus other artifacts from the area's history.[3] This fire happened on the same day as the Great Chicago fire, the Holland, Michigan fire, the Port Huron Fire of 1871, and The Great Michigan Fire in Manistee, Michigan.
The fictional character Caroline Duffy from the TV show Caroline in the City is from Peshtigo. The town was mentioned on the show many times.
Prairie Du Chien
In 1829, army doctor William Beaumont carried out many of his famous experiments on digestion in the hospital of Fort Crawford. Beaumont's discoveries are still the basis of our knowledge on the human digestive process.
Col. Zachary Taylor, who later became the 12th U.S. President, was the commanding officer at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War of 1832. Taylor oversaw the surrender of Black Hawk in Prairie du Chien.
Lt. Jefferson Davis, who later became president of the Confederate States of America, was stationed at Fort Crawford at the same time. It was at this fort that Jefferson Davis met Zachary Taylor's daughter, Sarah "Knoxie" Taylor, whom he married in 1835
Notable People
Barbara Bedford (1908–1981), silent film and Western actress
Nicholas Boilvin (1761–1827), 19th century American frontiersman[12]
Pat Bowlen (b. 1944), owner of the Denver Broncos
Michel Brisbois (1759–1837), voyageur[13]
Walter Bradford Cannon (1871–1945), physiologist who first developed the concepts of fight or flight and homeostasis
Hercules Louis Dousman (1800–1868), real estate speculator and Wisconsin's first millionaire
Henry Leavenworth (1783–1834), U.S. army officer in the War of 1812 and against the Plains Indians
Patrick Joseph Lucey (b. 1918), U.S. diplomat
Thomas Mower McDougall (1845-1909), U.S. Army officer
John Muir (1838–1914), conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club[citation needed]
Leo J. Ryan (1925–1978), U.S. Representative from California
Joseph M. Street (1782–1840), U.S. Army officer and U.S. Indian agent to the Winnebago, Sauk, and Fox tribes after the Black Hawk War
Jeremiah Burnham Tainter (1836–1920), engineer who invented the Tainter gate
Ormsby B. Thomas, U.S. Representative
William Miller Wallace (1844-1924), U.S. Army general
Wapello (1787–1842), Native American chief of the Fox tribe
According to one claim, Charlie Nagreen served the world's first hamburger at the Seymour Fair of 1885.[7] "Hamburger" Charlie decided to flatten a meatball and place it between slices of bread to increase portability
Hamburger Hall of Fame
Seymour's Hamburger Hall of Fame is an elaborate structure that celebrates hamburger history. There is also an annual one-day Burger Fest and plans to build a hamburger-shaped building.[8] In 1989 the world's largest hamburger (5,520 pounds) was served at the festival. There have been no challenges to the record, so the annual big burger now is only around 1,000 pounds. This festival also has a parade, hot air balloons, live entertainment, and several competitive events centered around hamburgers, including the bun run and the ketchup slide.
Seymour Speedway - Seymour Speedway is another attraction in the city, located at the Outagamie County Fairgrounds. The facility is a 1⁄3 miles (540 m) clay racetrack, with modern grandstands and facilities, and hosts races in several divisions, including Fastrak Late Models, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Northern Sport Mods, N.E.W. Dirt Street Stocks, N.E.W. Dirt Compact Car, and 4 cylinders. Races are held every Sunday night during the summer months.[11] At the end of the season each division crowns a champion based on a points system, much like NASCAR does.
High School Basketball
The Seymour High School boys' basketball team has qualified for every state tournament from 2000 until 2007, which is a state record. Seymour has made appearances at the state finals in 1993, 1996, 1997, and 2000 to 2007. The team has won five Silver Ball trophies (runner-up) and two Gold Ball trophies, advancing to the championship game seven times.[12] Seymour has garnered three state basketball championships in division 2 (1997, 2001, and 2006).
Shorewood
Notable People
Frankie Abernathy - reality TV star
Les Aspin - U.S. House of Representatives (1971-1993), U.S. Secretary of Defense (1993-1994)
Kate Baldwin - Broadway actress, 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Finian's Rainbow[11]
Bill Carollo - NFL referee
Dickey Chapelle - photojournalist and first female war correspondent[12]
John Fiedler - (1925-2005) voice actor and character actor in stage, film, television, and radio; voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions, played role of Mr. Peterson, nervous patient on The Bob Newhart Show.[13]
Herschel Burke Gilbert - film and television composer
Jerry Harrison - guitarist for the Talking Heads
Ari Herstand - musician
Jack Nagle - NBA scout
Pat Peppler - NFL general manager and head coach
Charlotte Rae - actress on The Facts of Life, 1944 graduate of Shorewood High School
William Rehnquist - U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1941 graduate of Shorewood High School
Adolph Rosentblatt -Retired emeritus professor and celebrated artist
Ben L. Salomon - recipient of World War II Medal of Honor
Jim Sensenbrenner - U.S. Representative
Leif Shiras - professional tennis player
Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams - co-directors of movies Airplane! and Top Secret! grew up in Shorewood; the bogus East German national anthem sung in Top Secret! is actually the Shorewood High School fight song with comic lyrics.
Shullsburg
Notable People
Shullsburg was the boyhood home of Lou Blonger, the "Bunco King" of Denver, Colorado. Blonger lived in Shullsburg from 1853, when he was four, until 1864, when he enlisted in the Union Army as a fifer.[2]
Shullsburg was the birthplace of George Safford Parker, the inventor of the fountain pen and founder of Parker Pen Company.[3]
U.S. Representative Henry S. Magoon practiced law in Shullsburg.[4]
U.S. Senator from Missouri William Warner was born in Shullsburg
Silver Lake
The 2005 remake of the film The Amityville Horror was shot on location at a private residence on Silver Lake that has, over the years, been called The Rustman Residence, The Krause Residence and Oakview.
Taliesin, the summer home and school of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including the Hillside Home School
Notable People
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
Anne Baxter, Academy Award-winning actress
Evan Alfred Evans, United States federal court judge
Isaac C. Evans, Wisconsin State Representative
Fred Gerber, Jr., South Dakota State Representative
Carie Graves, Olympic gold medalist, head coach of the Harvard Crimson and Texas Longhorns women's crew teams
Richard Haas, muralist
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian missionary and minister
Randall Duk Kim, actor
Robert McCutchin, Wisconsin State Representative
Jane Peyton, actress
John J. Sliter, Minnesota State Representative
Anthony Weston, philosopher
Alonzo Wilcox, Wisconsin State Representative
Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and builder of Taliesin
Two Rivers
Ice Cream Sundae
There is currently a heated debate between Ithaca, New York and Two Rivers over which city has the right to claim the title "birthplace of the ice cream sundae." When Ithaca mayor Carolyn K. Peterson proclaimed a day to celebrate her city as the birthplace of the sundae, she received postcards from Two Rivers' citizens reiterating that town's claim.[5] Ithaca retaliated with an ad called "Got Proof?" in the Two Rivers newspaper.[6] Two Rivers' claim is based on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C. Berners, the owner of Berners' Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881. Berners eventually did and wound up selling the treat for a nickel, originally only on Sundays, but later every day. According to this story, the spelling changed when a glass salesman ordered canoe-shaped dishes. When Berners died in 1939, the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary "Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead
Weyauwega
The Weyauwega derailment was a railroad accident that occurred in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, USA, in the early morning hours of March 4, 1996. The derailed train was carrying a large quantity of hazardous material, which immediately caught fire. The fire, which involved the train cars and an adjacent feed mill, burned for more than two weeks after the actual derailment, resulting in the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days, including the entire city of Weyauwega, with about 1,700 evacuees.
Wisconsin Dells
Together with nearby Lake Delton, the city forms an area known as "the Dells", a popular Midwestern tourist destination. The Dells area has an estimated five million annual visitors. With numerous indoor waterparks and outdoor waterparks in the Dells area, covering 70 acres (28 ha), Wisconsin Dells proclaims itself the "Waterpark Capital of the World". It is home to the largest outdoor water park in the U.S., Noah's Ark; the largest indoor waterpark resort, Wilderness Territory; and America's largest water and theme park resort, Hotel Rome at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park. Some other attractions in the Dells include the Dells Boat Tours, numerous golf courses, mini golf, go-kart tracks, water sports, horseback riding, Tommy Bartlett's Thrill Show, Exploratory, Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, Timber Falls Amusement the Ho-Chunk Casino and many other places of interest. Most attractions are located on the Strip, otherwise known as the Wisconsin Dells Parkway. Accommodations range from economical motels to RV parks, to chain hotels, to themed resorts featuring indoor and outdoor waterparks and other amenities.
