Fun facts about Wisconsin. (And I still wear beaver, although that coat is getting awfully heavy, but it sure feels good on a day like today.)
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Number one is in error. Everything that Wisconsi is is due to global warming which melted the glaciers. Just sayin.
I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Wisconsin, but I sure envy you your Governor.
I knew 8 of them!
Here is one you may not know. Due to a surveying error, the top 10 miles of Illinois should actually be in Wisconsin.
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Those pioneering lead miners in southwestern Wisconsin were immigrants from Cornwall. Their wives sent with them to the mines a noon lunch consisting of cooked veggies and meat enclosed in a pastry “envelope” called a “pasty.” Mineral Point restaurants still today (or at least they did a decade ago) offer a meat & veggie meal enclosed in a pastry wrap, a “pasty.”
Some of the miners, not taking time immediately to construct a log cabin residence, or lacking the wherewithal to afford it, set up housekeeping in existing caves in the limestone cliffs. Some wag observed that they lived
like “badgers,” and from this, legend has it, came Wisconsin’s “nickname, the “Badger State.”
I believe this industry, along with earlier ventures in fur trapping, were major natural resource sources of material wealth well before tilling the soil and growing crops became established. Early Wis. was an important wheat-growing territory/state long before dairy farming got started as what might be termed an “industry.” The lumber industry later came along, harvesting the pine/fir forests of the north. Many major “brownstone” buildings in New York City were build of reddish-brown granite mined in central Wisconsin, leaving large, very deep pits now filled with water.