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Repentigny, Quebec
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Repentigny is an off-island suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located north of Montreal on the lower end of the LAssomption River and on the Saint Lawrence River. Repentigny and Charlemagne were the first towns off the tip of the island of Montreal. Repentigny is part of the Lanaudiere region and it was founded in 1670 by Jean-Baptiste Le Gardeur, son of Seigneur Pierre Le Gardeur. During the towns first 250 years, Repentigny was only inhabited by a few hundred peasants, or habitants, in 1677, the first population census only shows 30 inhabitants. Its first mayor was Benjamin Moreau 1855, Repentigny merged with its neighbor city Le Gardeur on June 1,2002. The citys area grew from 29 to 69 km² and the population grew by 70%, Repentigny was also the western terminus of the Chemin du Roy, a road that extends eastward towards Quebec City. The 2006 census found that, counting single responses only, French was the tongue of 94. 5% of the population. The next most common languages were Creole, and Spanish and Italian,38. 09% of Repentigny residents can speak both French and English. Single responses,51. 60% of respondents gave a response of Canadian. All ethnocultural ancestries of more than 1% are listed in the table according to the exact terminology used by Statistics Canada. Repentigny is the point for transit in South-Central Lanaudière. Its Centre dÉchange Rive Nord-Est, administrated by Agence métropolitaine de transport, is the infrastructure for transit in the region. Unlike a bus terminal, no departures are available from the Centre dÉchange,9 of the 10 RTC de la MRC de LAssomption transit system circuits travel via Centre dÉchange, in addition of the 2 CRTL regional lines. In addition there is the MRC Les Moulins, Repentigny is connected to Montreals Central Station by commuter rail via the Repentigny Station of Agence métropolitaine de transports Mascouche Line. Famous people born and/or raised in Repentigny, Les Cowboys Fringants, marie Deschamps, a Canadian Supreme Court Justice. Jean-François Bérubé, New York Islanders goaltender, festival de spectacles jeune-public de Lanaudière, early July. Challenge international de Volleyball Molson Ex Light, late July, internationaux de Tennis junior du Canada Banque Nationale, late August-early September Fête du Petit-Village, every 2 autumns. Many outdoor shows and movie projections The Fête Nationale du Québec, la St-Jean, brings many activities, such as shows, the 2006 edition featured Marie-Mai, from Star Académie
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Lower Canada
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The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It covered the portion of the modern-day Province of Quebec, Canada. Other parts of New France ceded to Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the prefix lower in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario. The colony/province was abolished in 1841, when it and the adjacent Upper Canada were united into the Province of Canada, like Upper Canada, there was significant political unrest. Twenty-two years after the invasion by the Americans in the War of 1812, an abortive attempt by revolutionary Robert Nelson to declare a Republic of Lower Canada was quickly thwarted. The provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada were combined as the United Province of Canada in 1841 and their separate legislatures were combined into a single parliament with equal representation for both constituent parts, even though Lower Canada had a greater population. Traveling around Lower Canada was made mainly by water along the St. Lawrence River, on land the only main route was the Chemin du Roy or Kings Highway, built in the 1730s by New France. The Kings Highway remained as a means of travel until the challenge of steamboats. A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada, Quebec City, T. Cary/R
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Keshena, Wisconsin
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Keshena is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, it had a population of 1,262 at the 2010 census, keshena was named for an Indian chief. Keshena is located at 44°52′41″N 88°37′44″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.5 square miles, of which 99. 88% is land and 0. 12% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,394 people,353 households, the population density was 164.7 people per square mile. There were 376 housing units at a density of 44. 4/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 3. 08% White,0. 14% African American,95. 98% Native American,0. 07% Pacific Islander,0. 07% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 73% of the population. 13. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.85 and the average family size was 4.07. In the CDP, the population was out with 46. 1% under the age of 18,9. 3% from 18 to 24,26. 1% from 25 to 44,13. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 20 years, for every 100 females there were 101.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $19,792, and the median income for a family was $20,526. Males had an income of $22,115 versus $20,170 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $8,578, about 43. 9% of families and 45. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 57. 7% of those under age 18 and 32. 1% of those age 65 or over
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Fur trade
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The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur. Since the establishment of a world fur market in the modern period, furs of boreal, polar. Historically the trade stimulated the exploration and colonization of Siberia, northern North America, today the importance of the fur trade has diminished, it is based on pelts produced at fur farms and regulated fur-bearer trapping, but has become controversial. Animal rights organizations oppose the fur trade, citing that animals are brutally killed, Fur has been replaced in some clothing by synthetic imitations, for example, as in ruffs on hoods of parkas. Before the European colonization of the Americas, Russia was a supplier of fur pelts to Western Europe. Its trade developed in the Early Middle Ages, first through exchanges at posts around the Baltic, the main trading market destination was the German city of Leipzig. Originally, Russia exported raw furs, consisting in most cases of the pelts of martens, beavers, wolves, foxes, squirrels and hares. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Russians began to settle in Siberia, in a search for the prized sea otter pelts, first used in China, and later for the northern fur seal, the Russian Empire expanded into North America, notably Alaska. From the 17th through the half of the 19th century. The fur trade played a role in the development of Siberia, the Russian Far East. As recognition of the importance of the trade to the Siberian economy, the sable is a symbol of the Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast. Fur was relied on to make clothing, a critical consideration prior to the organization of coal distribution for heating. Portugal and Spain played major roles in fur trading after the 15th century with their business in fur hats and they began by establishing trading posts along the Volga and Vychegda river networks and requiring the Komi people to give them furs as tribute. Novgorod, the chief fur-trade center prospered as the easternmost trading post of the Hanseatic League, Novgorodians expanded farther east and north, coming into contact with the Pechora people of the Pechora River valley and the Yugra people residing near the Urals. Both of these native tribes offered more resistance than the Komi, as Muscovy gained more power in the 15th century and proceeded in the gathering of the Russian lands, the Muscovite state began to rival the Novgorodians in the North. During the 15th century Moscow began subjugating many native tribes, one strategy involved exploiting antagonisms between tribes, notably the Komi and Yugra, by recruiting men of one tribe to fight in an army against the other tribe. Campaigns against native tribes in Siberia remained insignificant until they began on a larger scale in 1483 and 1499. Besides the Novgorodians and the indigenes, Muscovites also had to contend with the various Muslim Tatar khanates to the east of Muscovy, at this point the phrase ruler of Obdor, Konda, and all Siberian lands became part of the title of the Tsar in Moscow
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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been built in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront, the word Milwaukee may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, Gathering place. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, many of these people had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee area around the time of European contact. In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a role in all the wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of Ojibwas, in the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the few Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. After American independence, the Indians fought the United States in the Northwest Indian War as part of the Council of Three Fires, during the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15,1812, the War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833. This paved the way for American settlement, Europeans had arrived in the Milwaukee area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French missionaries and traders first passed through the area in the late 17th and 18th centuries, alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac settled a trading post, therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names, Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, for many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie. One story of Milwaukees name says, ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, the spelling Milwaukie lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted. Milwaukee has three founding fathers, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker, Solomon Juneau was the first of the three to come to the area, in 1818. He was not the first European settler but founded a town called Juneaus Side, or Juneautown, in competition with Juneau, Byron Kilbourn established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River and made sure the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin is a U. S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River, arriving in 1673, subsequent French writers changed the spelling from Meskousing to Ouisconsin, and over time this became the name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling from Ouisconsin to Wisconsin when they began to arrive in numbers during the early 19th century. The legislature of Wisconsin Territory made the current spelling official in 1845, the Algonquin word for Wisconsin and its original meaning have both grown obscure. Interpretations vary, but most implicate the river and the red sandstone that lines its banks, other theories include claims that the name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning red stone place, where the waters gather, or great rock. Wisconsin has been home to a variety of cultures over the past 12,000 years. The first people arrived around 10,000 BCE during the Wisconsin Glaciation and these early inhabitants, called Paleo-Indians, hunted now-extinct ice age animals such as the Boaz mastodon, a prehistoric mastodon skeleton unearthed along with spear points in southwest Wisconsin. After the ice age ended around 8000 BCE, people in the subsequent Archaic period lived by hunting, fishing, agricultural societies emerged gradually over the Woodland period between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. Toward the end of period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the Effigy Mound culture. Later, between 1000 and 1500 CE, the Mississippian and Oneota cultures built substantial settlements including the village at Aztalan in southeast Wisconsin. The Oneota may be the ancestors of the modern Ioway and Ho-Chunk tribes who shared the Wisconsin region with the Menominee at the time of European contact, the first European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, pierre Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers visited Green Bay again in 1654–1666 and Chequamegon Bay in 1659–1660, where they traded for fur with local Native Americans. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first to record a journey on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway all the way to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien
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Joe Juneau (prospector)
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Joseph Juneau was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in the Quebec town of Saint-Paul-lErmite to François Xavier Juneau dit Latulippe and Marguerite Thiffault Juneau. He is best known for co-founding, with Richard Harris, the city of Juneau, Alaska, the first major gold discovery in Juneau or Douglas Island was circa 1880. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1900. Juneaus Native American guide in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee, who is credited with exploring much of the later named for Juneau. Harris and Juneau were sent with Kowee by George Pilz, an entrepreneur, after trading much of their grubstake for hoochinoo, or home brew, they returned to Pilz empty-handed, but were promptly sent back to the Juneau area. There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek to Silver Bow Basin, today, a creek on Douglas Island is named Kowee Creek. After the discovery of gold in the area, Harris and Juneau carried approximately 1,000 pounds of gold ore back to Sitka, the settlement founded by Juneau and Harris was originally called Harrisburg or Harrisburgh, and then Rockwell. Miners often used names in their records. There was also a proposal to name the town Pilzburg in honor of Pilz. The town received its current name at a meeting on December 14,1881, at which the name Juneau received 47 of the 72 votes cast, while Harrisburg received 21 votes. Joe Juneau reportedly bought drinks for fellow miners to persuade them to name the city in his honor, Joe Juneau traveled to Dawson City, Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. He usually spent gold as fast as he got it but at the end of his life he owned a restaurant in Dawson. Juneau died of pneumonia in March,1899 in Dawson and his body was brought back to the town that bears his name and was buried in the citys Evergreen Cemetery on August 16,1903. His cousin Solomon Juneau founded the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Juneau mining district Gold Rush Stories Joe Juneau at Find-A-Grave 1880s Alaska photo exhibit
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Juneau, Alaska
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The City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U. S. Congress in 1900. Downtown Juneau is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island, as of the 2010 census, the City and Borough had a population of 31,276. In 2014, the estimate from the United States Census Bureau was 32,406. Fairbanks, however, is the second most populous area in the state. Juneaus daily population can increase by roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September, the city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was for a time called Rockwell and then Harrisburg. The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántiki Héeni, and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Áakw in Tlingit, the Taku River, just south of Juneau, was named after the cold taakh wind, which occasionally blows down from the mountains. Juneau is rather unusual among U. S. capitals in that there are no roads connecting the city to the rest of Alaska or to the rest of North America, the absence of a road network is due to the extremely rugged terrain surrounding the city. This in turn makes Juneau a de facto island city in terms of transportation, since all goods coming in and out must go by plane or boat, in spite of the city being located on the Alaskan mainland. Downtown Juneau sits at sea level, with tides averaging 16 feet, the Mendenhall glacier has been gradually retreating, its front face is declining both in width and height. The Alaska State Capitol in downtown Juneau was originally built as the Federal and Territorial Building in 1931, prior to statehood, it housed federal government offices, the federal courthouse and a post office. It also housed the territorial legislature and many other territorial offices, today, Juneau remains the home of the state legislature and the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor. Some other executive offices have moved elsewhere in the state. The Aakw Kwáan had a village and burying ground here, in the 21st century it is known as Indian Point. They annually harvested herring during the season, and celebrated this bounty. They consider it sacred territory, both because of the ground and the importance of the point in their traditions of gathering sustenance from the sea. They continue to gather clams, gumboots, grass and sea urchins here, the city and state supported Sealaska Heritage Institute in documenting the 78-acre site, and in August 2016 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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Fort Michilimackinac
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Built around 1715, and abandoned in 1783, it was located along the Straits, which connected Lake Huron and Lake Michigan of the Great Lakes of North America. Present-day Mackinaw City developed around the site of the fort, which has designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is preserved as an historical museum, with several reconstructed wooden buildings. The fort served as a depot for traders in the western Great Lakes. In 1683, they augmented the mission with Fort de Buade, in 1701, Sieur de Cadillac moved the French garrison to Fort Detroit and closed the mission. By 1713, however, the French decided to re-establish a presence along the Straits of Mackinac and they sent Constant le Marchand de Lignery with a contingent of soldiers and workmen in 1715 to accomplish the job. Over the decades, they made modifications and expansions to the palisade walls. Chevalier Jacques Testard de Montigny, who was a Lt. and he was previously commandant of Fort La Baye. Many of his relatives settled in Michigan, the French relinquished the fort, along with their territory in Canada, to the British in 1761 following their loss in the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War. Other civilian residents included British fur traders, some of whom resided within the fort in the row house. The Ojibwe in the region resented British policies as harsh, on June 2,1763, as part of the larger movement known as Pontiacs Rebellion, a group of Ojibwe staged a game of baagaadowe outside the fort as a ruse to gain entrance. After entering the fort, they killed most of the British inhabitants and they held the fort for a year before the British regained control, promising to offer more and better gifts to the native inhabitants of the area. The British eventually determined that the fort on the mainland was too vulnerable. In 1781 they built a fort on nearby Mackinac Island. Now known as Fort Mackinac, it was also initially named Fort Michilimackinac. The British then moved related buildings to the island by dismantling them, patrick Sinclair, the lieutenant governor of Michilimackinac, ordered the remains of the southern Fort Michilimackinac to be destroyed after the move. In 1960 the fort grounds were designated a National Historic Landmark and this is a popular tourist attraction as part of Colonial Michilimackinac State Park in Mackinaw City, a major component of the Mackinac State Historic Parks. Interpreters, both paid and volunteer, help bring the history to life with music, live demonstrations, the site has numerous reconstructed historical wooden structures based on archeological excavations
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Milwaukee River
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The Milwaukee River is a river in the state of Wisconsin. It is about 104 miles long, once a locus of industry, the river is now the center of a housing boom. New condos now crowd the downtown and harbor districts of Milwaukee attracting young professionals to the area, the river is also ribboned with parks as it winds through various neighborhoods. Kayaks and fishing boats share the river with party boats, an extensive Riverwalk featuring art displays, boat launches and restaurants lines its banks in downtown Milwaukee. The river begins in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin and flows south past Grafton to downtown Milwaukee, cedar Creek, the Menomonee River and the Kinnickinnic River are the three main tributaries. The Milwaukee River watershed drains 882 square miles in southeastern Wisconsin, including parts of Dodge, Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington and Waukesha counties. The Milwaukee River watershed is part of the Lake Michigan subbasin, this subbasin is itself a part of the St. Lawrence River Watershed, the Milwaukee River area was populated by Native Americans in the time before European settlement. Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet navigated from Lake Michigan through the Milwaukee River on their way to the Fox River, the quarrel over the formation of a bridge across the Milwaukee River was a key point in the merging of the three towns into the city of Milwaukee in 1846. The Milwaukee River has numerous movable bridges spanning it, allowing for pedestrian and these bridges include several different types, including bascule and vertical lift bridges. There are also many fixed bridges, as well as several pedestrian-only and these include Gordon, Kern, Lincoln, Pere Marquette, Pleasant Valley, and Riverside Parks in Milwaukee, Kletzsch Park in Glendale, as well as Hubbard Park and Estabrook Park in Shorewood. There are also several dams along the river, the dam in Estabrook Park, Milwaukee County is currently the subject of controversy. Some nearby residents want it rebuilt, the State of Wisconsin and local environmental advocacy groups like the Milwaukee River keepers want it removed
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George H. Walker
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George H. Walker was an American trader and politician who helped found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as the 5th and 7th Mayor of Milwaukee, Walker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and moved with his family to Illinois in 1825. He first arrived in Milwaukee on March 20,1834, in June 1835, he founded the settlement of Walkers Point on the south side of the Milwaukee River and established a fur trading post. In 1846, Walkers settlement combined with two rival villages - Solomon Juneaus Juneautown and Byron Kilbourns Kilbourntown - to incorporate the City of Milwaukee, Walker served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives from 1842-1845 and in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1851. Walker also served as the supervisor, register of the land office, alderman. He was one of the builders of the citys first street car line in 1859 and he died on September 20,1866 and is buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. Walkers younger brother, Isaac P. Walker, was a U. S, senator from Wisconsin, serving from 1848 to 1855
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Byron Kilbourn
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Byron Kilbourn was an American surveyor, railroad executive, and politician who was an important figure in the founding of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Kilbourn was born in Granby, Connecticut, United States, North America, in 1803, he moved with his family to Worthington, Ohio, which his father had helped found that year. Kilbourns father was James Kilbourne, a colonel during the War of 1812, representative from Ohio from 1813 to 1817. Byron Kilbourn worked in Ohio as a surveyor and as a state engineer and he first visited Wisconsin in 1834, landing at Green Bay, and worked as a government surveyor in the area. He later deemed the area near the Milwaukee River to be a location for commerce. In 1837 Kilbourn founded Kilbourntown, which rivaled with Solomon Juneaus Juneautown and he was a key figure in the Milwaukee Bridge War in 1845. In 1846, the three combined and formed the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and he served in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives in 1845 and was a member of the second Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1847. Kilbourn also served as a Milwaukee alderman and was elected to two terms as mayor in 1848 and 1854. Kilbourn was also a 1849 candidate for the United States Senate, when working as a highway commissioner for the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, Kilbourn founded what was to become the City of West Bend in 1845. In 1857, Kilbourn founded the city of Kilbourn City, now known as the city of Wisconsin Dells, Kilbourn became involved in the railroad industry, serving as president of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad for about three years from around 1849 until 1852. He was fired by the board of directors following allegations of mismanagement. He then started a new railroad from Milwaukee to La Crosse as a competitor with his former railroad, the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad was chartered in 1852 and became the second railroad to connect Milwaukee to the Mississippi River. The La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Company failed in the aftermath of the scandal, in 1868, a decade after the railroad scandals, Kilbourn moved to Jacksonville, Florida to relieve arthritis symptoms. He died there December 16,1870, age 69, and was buried in Jacksonville, historic Milwaukee, Inc. worked to have him re-interred in Milwaukee because he was the only one of the three Milwaukee founders not buried in there. In late 1998 Kilbourns remains were returned to Milwaukee for interment at Forest Home Cemetery, Byron Kilbourn at Find a Grave Kilbourn, Byron 1801–1870 | Wisconsin Historical Society
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Milwaukee Sentinel
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is the newspaper in Milwaukee, the largest newspaper in Wisconsin and is distributed widely throughout the state. It is owned by the Gannett Company, the new Journal Sentinel then became a seven-day morning paper. In early 2003, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel began printing operations at its new printing facility in West Milwaukee, the merged papers volume and edition numbers follow those of the Journal. The founder of Milwaukee, Solomon Juneau, provided the funds for editor John ORourke. It was first published as a weekly on June 27,1837. A deathly ill ORourke struggled to help the paper to find its feet before he died six months later of tuberculosis at the age of 24, on Juneaus request, ORourkes associate, Harrison Reed, remained to take over the Sentinels operations. He continued the struggle to keep the paper ahead of its debts, meanwhile, the establishment of the Whig party in the territory thrust the Sentinel into the hurly-burly of partisan politics. In 1840 Reed was assaulted by individuals whom the Sentinel charged were hirelings of Democratic Governor Henry Dodge, later that year the paper abandoned its independence and proclaimed itself a Whig paper with its endorsement of William Henry Harrison for president in 1840. In financial straits, Reed lost control of the paper in 1841 when Democrats foreclosed on the Sentinels mortgaged debt, only after the Democrats successful election of Dodge for Congress was Reed able to regain control of the paper. The next year he sold the Sentinel to Elisha Starr, an editor who had founded a new Whig paper in response to the Sentinels Democratic lapse, Reed later became a carpetbag governor of Florida during Reconstruction. Starr guarded the Sentinels position as the sole Whig organ in Milwaukee, heavily in debt, he secured the partnership of David M. Keeler, who paid off the papers creditors. Keeler took on partner John S. Fillmore and succeeded in ousting Starr, Keeler and Fillmore trumped his efforts by turning their Sentinel into a daily on December 9,1844, while still publishing a weekly edition. The paper finally began to prosper and establish itself as a political force in the nascent state of Wisconsin. Weed recommended his associate editor and protégé, Rufus King, King was a native of New York City, a graduate of West Point, a brevet lieutenant, the son of the president of Columbia College and the grandson of U. S. In June 1845 King came to Milwaukee and became the Sentinels editor three months later, King was lionized by the community. It was his suggestion that made the Sentinel the first paper in the Midwest to employ newsboys to boost street sales, due largely to Kings connections to the East, the quality of the Sentinel greatly improved. He declared the Sentinel an antislavery paper and also supported temperance legislation, King invested his own money in the paper, purchasing the first power press in the Midwest
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Postmaster
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A postmaster is the head of an individual post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization, in the United States, women have served as postmasters since the Revolutionary War and even earlier, under British rule. In Canada, many places are named after the first postmaster. In the days of horse-drawn carriages, a postmaster was an individual from whom horses and/or riders could be hired, the postmaster would reside in a post house. In the United States, many postmasters are members of a management organization which consults with the United States Postal Service for compensation, the level of pay is based on deliveries and revenue of the post office. Levels are from EAS18 through 26, smaller remotely managed post offices no longer have Postmasters and report to a nearby larger office. Larger metropolitan post offices are PCES
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Jacques Vieau
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Jacques Vieau was a French-Canadian fur trader and first permanent white settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born near Montreal, Canada and died in Howard, Vieau came to Green Bay in 1786 and married Angelique Roy there that year. She was the granddaughter of Potawatomi Indian chief, Anaugesa and they had at least twelve children together. He settled at Jambo Creek in Manitowoc County in 1795, while employed by the North West Company, Vieau established a fur trading post in the area that would become Milwaukee in 1795, along with outposts at Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Sheboygan. His Milwaukee cabin was built on top of a bluff overlooking the Menomonee Valley, a historical monument marks this location in Mitchell Park as the first house in Milwaukee. In 1818 Jacques Vieau hired another French-Canadian named Solomon Juneau, who married his daughter Josette. Vieau is the eponym of Vieau Elementary School and also a street found in Milwaukee, although the descendants of Vieau are centered on Green Bay, there is a direct male descendant of Vieau presently residing in West Allis, a suburb of Milwaukee. Narrative of Andrew Vieau, Sr. Menomonee Valley Historical Overview History of Wisconsin
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Menomonee Valley
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The Menomonee Valley or Menomonee River Valley is a U-shaped land formation along the southern bend of the Menomonee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Because of its access to Lake Michigan and other waterways, the neighborhood has historically been home to the citys stockyards, rendering plants, shipping. It was also a source of pollution for the river. Glacial meltwater formed the Menomonee Valley over 10,000 years ago when the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation retreated and eroded a swath four miles long and half of a mile wide. Today, it is bounded by the 6th Street Viaduct near the river confluence. The valley effectively cuts Milwaukee in half, limiting access to a handful of viaducts that span the chasm, with a historically predominant white south side and black near north side, the valley has been perceived as a social and racial divide during times of civil unrest. In the 1960s, Father James Groppi organized protests against segregation in Milwaukee, the 16th Street Viaduct has since been renamed in his honor. Abundant wild rice once grew in the marshland of the confluence and along the shores of the river and these wetlands provided them with the staples of life and allowed for access further inland. Archaeologist Charles Brown later identified five settlements along the valley rim, another fourteen archaeological points of interest have since been marked within the valley based on historical accounts, but it is unlikely that anything would be found because of improvements. By the 19th century, displaced Potawatomi were the primary residents, missionary Jacques Marquette is the first European known to have explored the area, with other French-Canadian fur traders arriving in the late 17th century. The first permanent trading post was established by Jacques Vieau in 1795, Vieau built his cabin on top of a bluff overlooking the Menomonee Valley in what is now Mitchell Park. He was later joined by Solomon Juneau in 1818, who started one of three settlements that incorporated into the City of Milwaukee, reshaping of the valley began with the railroads built by city co-founder Byron Kilbourn to bring product from Wisconsins farm interior to the port. By 1862 Milwaukee was the largest shipper of wheat on the planet, grain elevators were built and, due to Milwaukees dominant German immigrant population, breweries sprang up around the processing of barley and hops. A number of tanneries were constructed, of which the Pfister & Vogel tannery grew to become the largest in America, in 1843 George Burnham and his brother Jonathan opened a brickyard near 16th Street. When a durable and distinct cream-colored brick came out of the clay beds, because many of the citys buildings were built using this material it earned the nickname Cream City, and conversely the brick was called Cream City brick. By 1881 the Burnham brickyard, which employed 200 men and peaked at 15 million bricks a year, was the largest in the world, flour mills, packing plants, breweries, railways and tanneries further industrialized the valley. With the marshlands drained and the Kinnickinnic and Milwaukee Rivers dredged, south Menomonee Canal is still in use today primarily for delivering coal to WE energies plant on its north bank. Unimaginable amounts of fill came down from the bluffs to raise the floor a average of 22 feet
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Menominee
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Some placenames use other spellings, see also Menomonee and Menomonie. The Menominee are a federally recognized nation of Native Americans, with a 353.894 sq mi reservation in Wisconsin and their historic territory originally included an estimated 10 million acres in present-day Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The tribe currently has about 8,700 members, the tribe was terminated in the 1950s under federal policy of the time which stressed assimilation. The U. S. Supreme Court determined that the tribe had not lost traditional hunting and fishing rights as a result of termination, the tribe regained federal recognition in 1973 in an act of Congress, and re-established its reservation in 1975. They operate under a constitution establishing an elected government. Their first government under it took over government and administration from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1979. The Menominee are part of the Algonquian language family of North America, made up several tribes now located around the Great Lakes and many other tribes based along the Atlantic coast. They are one of the tribes of present-day upper Michigan and Wisconsin. They are believed to have been well-settled in that territory for more than 1,000 years, by some accounts, they are descended from the Old Copper Culture people and other indigenous peoples who had been in this area for 10,000 years. Menominee oral history states that they have always been here and their reservation is located 60 miles west of the site of their Creation, according to their tradition. They arose where the Menominee River enters Green Bay of Lake Michigan and their name for themselves is Mamaceqtaw, meaning the people. The name Menominee is not their autonym and it was adopted by Europeans from the Ojibwe people, another Algonquian tribe whom they encountered first as they moved west and who told them of the Menominee. The Ojibwe name for the tribe was manoominii, meaning wild rice people, historically, the Menominee were known to be a peaceful, friendly and welcoming nation, who had a reputation for getting along with other tribes. When the Oneota culture arose in southern Wisconsin between AD800 and 900, the Menominee shared the forests and waters with them, the Menominee are a Northeastern Woodlands tribe. They were initially encountered by European explorers in Wisconsin in the century during the colonial era. During this period lived in numerous villages which the French visited for fur trading. The anthropologist James Mooney in 1928 estimated that the number in 1650 was 3,000 persons. The early French explorers and traders referred to the people as folles avoines, the Menominee have traditionally subsisted on a wide variety of plants and animals, with wild rice and sturgeon being two of the most important
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Half-breed
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Half-breed is a term, now considered derogatory, used to describe anyone who is of mixed race, though it usually refers to people who are half Native American and half European or white. Half-breed is the English version of the French word métis, in the 19th century the United States government set aside lands in the western states for people of American Indian and European or European-American ancestry known as the Half-Breed Tract. The Nemaha Half-Breed Reservation was established by the Treaty of Prairie du Chien of 1830, in Article 4 of the 1823 Treaty of Fond du Lac land was granted to the half-breeds of Chippewa descent on the islands and shore of St. Marys River near Sault Ste. The Canadian government used the term half-breed in the late 19th and early 20th century for people who were of mixed Aboriginal, the North-West Half-Breed Commission established by the Canadian government after the North West Rebellion also used the term to refer to the Métis residents of the North-West Territories. In 1885 children born in the Northwest of Métis parents or pure Indian, in Alberta the Métis formed the Halfbreed Association of Northern Alberta in 1932. Half-Breed is a recorded by Cher and released as a single in 1973. On October 6,1973, it became Chers second U. S. number one hit as a solo artist, red, White, and Black, Symposium on Indians in the Old South, Southern Anthropological Society,1971. Mixed Blood Indians, The University of Georgia Press,2003, anglo-Metis Bois-Brûlés Métis people Métis people Mixed blood Murray Parker, The Half-breed Savage/ Quanah Parker, Texas Escapes Half-breed, Dictionary
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Dodge County, Wisconsin
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Dodge County is a county located in the U. S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 88,759, the county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1844. Dodge County comprises the Beaver Dam, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 907 square miles, of which 876 square miles is land and 31 square miles is water. The population density was 97 people per square mile, there were 33,672 housing units at an average density of 38 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 95. 28% White,2. 49% Black or African American,0. 40% Native American,0. 34% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,0. 87% from other races, and 0. 58% from two or more races. 2. 55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, according to Census 2000,56. 2% were of German,8. 7% Irish and 5. 0% English 4. 2% Norwegian and 3. 9% selected United States or American ancestry. 95. 4% spoke English,2. 2% Spanish and 2. 0% other Indo-European languages as their language spoken at home,24. 10% of all households were made up of individuals and 10. 80% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 3.05. In the county, the population was out with 24. 80% under the age of 18,8. 30% from 18 to 24,31. 20% from 25 to 44,21. 90% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 109.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.80 males, Dodge County Airport serves the county and surrounding communities. Ashippun Burnett Lebanon Clason Prairie National Register of Historic Places listings in Dodge County, Wisconsin Hubbell, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Past and Present. Dodge County official website Dodge County map from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Dodge County Tourism Association
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Theresa, Wisconsin
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Theresa is a village in Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,262 at the 2010 census, the village is within the Town of Theresa. Theresa was founded by Solomon Juneau along with his Metis wife and it was named for Solomons mother, Thérèse Galarneau Juneau. Theresa is located at 43°31′0″N 88°27′10″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.82 square miles, of which,0.80 square miles of it is land and 0.02 square miles is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,262 people,539 households, the population density was 1,577.5 inhabitants per square mile. There were 588 housing units at a density of 735.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 5% White,0. 4% African American,0. 6% Native American,0. 2% Asian,0. 6% from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 7% of the population. 28. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.85. The median age in the village was 42 years. 21. 1% of residents were under the age of 18,6. 6% were between the ages of 18 and 24,27. 3% were from 25 to 44,28. 7% were from 45 to 64, and 16. 2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 51. 1% male and 48. 9% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 1,252 people,495 households, and 365 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,672.8 people per square mile, there were 528 housing units at an average density of 705.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 97. 92% White,0. 08% Black or African American,0. 32% Native American,0. 08% Asian,0. 88% from other races,1. 92% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 20. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 2.94. In the village, the population was out with 26. 0% under the age of 18,6. 6% from 18 to 24,33. 7% from 25 to 44,19. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males, the median income for a household in the village was $44,200, and the median income for a family was $50,795. Males had an income of $37,216 versus $26,023 for females
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Calvary Cemetery (Milwaukee)
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Calvary Cemetery is the oldest existing Roman Catholic cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Owned by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, it is the resting place for many of the citys early influential figures. The cemetery was designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1981, with 75 acres and approximately 80,000 interments, the Victorian landscape contains many ornate statues, crypts and monuments. It was filled with the remains of the 10-acre Old Cemetery, by 1880 Calvary had 10,307 recorded burials and an additional 20 acres were added. Both the Gothic Revival gate house and Romanesque Revival chapel were designed by architect Erhard Brielmaier, a service building was constructed sometime after 1890 in Queen Anne style using Cream City brick, a distinct light colored brick made locally. The building is still in use today, the wooden gate house with its triumphal arch and four-story tower was completed in 1897. It is the oldest building on the grounds and was repainted in 2002 when a new building was built to the west. Chapel Hill is one of the highest points in Milwaukee and it is used as a burial site for clergy and members of the various religious orders. Many of the citys early catholic churches such as the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Old St. Marys, a large Calvary cross stood at the peak until it was replaced with the chapel. The chapel was built in 1899 using Cream City brick and decorated with stone trim, an arched portico with limestone columns and a rose window set the entrance while three hemispherical apses flank the other three sides. It is crowned by a tower with a peaked roof. Dedicated on All Souls Day in 1902, the chapel held mass on Memorial Day and All Souls Day until 1950, archbishop Henni donated 3 acres of land across Bluemound Road to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on September 9,1879 for a monastery and church. In exchange, they were to perform services at the cemetery when parish priests were unable to attend. The cornerstone for Holy Cross Church was placed on October 26,1879, the order blessed the cemetery on All Saints Day. On May 18,2006 a construction worker unearthed human remains in the area believed to be the location of the Old Cemetery near 22nd and Michigan streets. Thirteen burials have since been identified, and archaeologists are unsure if they are remnants from the cemetery or a burial site used by a Potawatomi village. Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukees Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes
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Paul O. Husting
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Paul Oscar Adolph Husting was an American lawyer from Mayville, Wisconsin who served as a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate from 1915 to 1917. Husting was born April 25,1866 in Fond du Lac and his father, John P. Husting, had emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to the United States in 1855. His mother, Mary M. Rusting, née Juneau, was the fourth youngest of sixteen children born to Solomon Juneau, co-founder, Husting moved with his parents to Mayville, Wisconsin, in 1876, where he received a common school education. Husting entered the University of Wisconsin Law School, passed the bar examination. He initially practiced law in Mayville by himself, but in 1897 associated himself with C. W. Lamoreux until the latter was elected judge, Husting was elected district attorney of Dodge County in 1902 and reelected in 1904. He was elected to the senate in 1906, and reelected in 1910. Husting was the first United States senator from Wisconsin to be elected by a vote of the people, defeating ex-Governor Francis E. McGovern at the November,1914. He succeeded Isaac Stephenson as United States senator on March 4,1915 and he was chairman of the Committee on Fisheries during 1917 and chairman of a special committee investigating trespasses on Indian lands during his entire time in the Senate. Husting was killed in a hunting accident on Rush Lake near Pickett. Gustave shot his brother accidentally in the back, Husting fell into a coma and died later in the day. The New York Times described him as the most aggressive leader of the loyalist forces in Wisconsin, and contrasted him with Senator La Follette and he is interred at the Graceland Cemetery in Mayville. Hustings death was of political importance, in 1919 the Senate would have been under Democratic control had he not been succeeded by Republican Irvine Lenroot, as a consequence of which in 1919 the Senate had 49 Republicans and 47 Democrats. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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United States Senate
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The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress which, along with the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, composes the legislature of the United States. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. S. From 1789 until 1913, Senators were appointed by the legislatures of the states represented, following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. The Senate chamber is located in the wing of the Capitol, in Washington. It further has the responsibility of conducting trials of those impeached by the House, in the early 20th century, the practice of majority and minority parties electing their floor leaders began, although they are not constitutional officers. This idea of having one chamber represent people equally, while the other gives equal representation to states regardless of population, was known as the Connecticut Compromise, there was also a desire to have two Houses that could act as an internal check on each other. One was intended to be a Peoples House directly elected by the people, the other was intended to represent the states to such extent as they retained their sovereignty except for the powers expressly delegated to the national government. The Senate was thus not designed to serve the people of the United States equally, the Constitution provides that the approval of both chambers is necessary for the passage of legislation. First convened in 1789, the Senate of the United States was formed on the example of the ancient Roman Senate, the name is derived from the senatus, Latin for council of elders. James Madison made the comment about the Senate, In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people. An agrarian law would take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation, landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, the senate, therefore, ought to be this body, and to answer these purposes, the people ought to have permanency and stability. The Constitution stipulates that no constitutional amendment may be created to deprive a state of its equal suffrage in the Senate without that states consent, the District of Columbia and all other territories are not entitled to representation in either House of the Congress. The District of Columbia elects two senators, but they are officials of the D. C. city government. The United States has had 50 states since 1959, thus the Senate has had 100 senators since 1959. In 1787, Virginia had roughly ten times the population of Rhode Island, whereas today California has roughly 70 times the population of Wyoming and this means some citizens are effectively two orders of magnitude better represented in the Senate than those in other states. Seats in the House of Representatives are approximately proportionate to the population of each state, before the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, Senators were elected by the individual state legislatures
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Mitchell Building
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The Mitchell Building is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, the building was constructed by U. S. It would go on to house a bank, the property is presumed to have once been the site of the residence of Solomon Juneau. Juneau helped to found Milwaukee and served as its first mayor, the Mitchell Building is adjacent to the Mackie Building, which was also built by Mitchell, designed by E. Townsend Mix and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
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SS Solomon Juneau
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SS Solomon Juneau was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. It was operated by Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company, while in the Mediterranean, the SS Solomon Juneau shot down five enemy German aircraft. A German submarine torpedoed the ship in April 1945, blowing two soldiers overboard who were never found, seventeen years later, in 1962, it was scrapped at Panama City, Florida. List of Liberty ships SS Winona, a Weyerhaeuser ship in World War I Gun crew at Treasure Island, March 1943
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Juneau Monument
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The Juneau Monument is a public artwork by American artist Richard Henry Park located on the grounds of Juneau Park, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The base of the statue is made of limestone, on top of the base is a bronze statue of Solomon Juneau. On each side of the base are bronze reliefs, the statue is 5 feet wide by 15 feet high. The front of the base is inscribed with the name of the figure depicted in the sculpture. The back of the base is inscribed, “The gift of Charles T. Bradley, on the north side of the base is a bronze relief of Juneau being greeted by Native Americans. Underneath the relief, an inscription reads, “Solomon Juneau, First Mayor of Milwaukee, on the south side of the base is a bronze relief of Juneau being elected to Congress. Underneath the relief is the inscription, “Solomon Juneau, First Mayor of Milwaukee, the sculpture was unveiled on July 6,1887 by Juneau’s granddaughter, Hattie White. Solomon Juneau was a French Canadian born in a village near Montreal. Juneau was a French trader with the American Fur Company, in 1818, the American Fur Company established a trading post in Milwaukee. Juneau decided to purchase the land between the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan and named it Juneau Town and he was the postmaster and the first president of the Village of Milwaukee. He was elected the first mayor of the City of Milwaukee in 1846, Juneau died in 1856 while making an Indian payment for the U. S. Government at a reservation in Keshena. Shoe manufacturers Charles T. Bradley and William H. Metcalf, friends of the Juneau family, melissa Sue Andersen Solomon Juneau from the Smithsonians Save Outdoor Sculpture. Survey Juneau Monument, Greetings from Milwaukee, UWM Archives
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Find a Grave
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Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry. com, the worlds largest for-profit genealogy company, the site was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of celebrities. He later added an online forum, Find a Grave was launched as a commercial entity in 1998, first as a trade name and then incorporated in 2000. The site later expanded to include graves of non-celebrities, in order to allow visitors to pay respect to their deceased relatives or friends. In 2013, Tipton sold Find a Grave to Ancestry. com, burial information is a wonderful source for people researching their family history. In a September 30,2013, press release, Ancestry, as of March 2017, Find a Grave contained over 159 million burial records and 75 million photos. The website contains listings of cemeteries and graves from around the world, american cemeteries are organized by state and county, and many cemetery records contain Google Maps and photographs of the cemeteries and gravesites. Individual grave records may contain dates and places of birth and death, biographical information, cemetery and plot information, photographs, Interment listings are added by individuals, genealogical societies, and other institutions such as the International Wargraves Photography Project. Contributors must register as members to submit listings, called memorials, the submitter becomes the manager of the listing but may transfer management. Only the current manager of a listing may edit it, although any member may use the features to send correction requests to the listings manager. Managers may add links to other listings of deceased spouses, parents, members may post requests for photos of a specific grave, these requests will be automatically sent to other members who have registered their location as being near that grave. Find a Grave also maintains lists of memorials of famous persons by their claim to fame, such as Medal of Honor recipients, religious figures, Find a Grave exercises editorial control over these listings. Canadian Headstones Interment. net National Cemetery Administrations Nationwide Gravesite Locator Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Tombstone tourist Colker, web site answers grave concerns about stars. Web site attracts millions of grave-seekers, Find VIPs who R. I. P. through online cemetery. Genealogy, Find a Grave tremendous on many different levels, terre Haute, Indiana, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Archived from the original on May 14,2011, tip, Find a Grave has info youre dying to know. Tracking Down Relatives, Visiting Graves Virtually, media related to Images from Find A Grave at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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William Pitt Lynde
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William Pitt Lynde was an American lawyer and politician from Wisconsin who served in the United States House of Representatives and as Mayor of Milwaukee. Lynde was born in Sherburne, New York and he graduated from Yale College, in 1838, and Harvard Law School, in 1841, and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin shortly thereafter, in 1842 he founded the law firm Finch & Lynde with partner Asahel Finch, Jr. Finch & Lynde survives today as Foley & Lardner, one of the oldest and largest law firms in the country. Lynde became Attorney General of the Wisconsin Territory in 1844 and United States Attorney for Wisconsin in 1845 and he also served as president of the board of trustees of the Village of Milwaukee. When Wisconsin was admitted as a state in 1848, Lynde was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and he joined part of the 30th United States Congress from June 5,1848 till March 3,1849 representing Wisconsins 1st congressional district. He lost his bid for the 31st Congress. He was also unsuccessful in the 1849 election for justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Lynde served as Mayor of Milwaukee in 1860 and his Wisconsin political career also led him to the state legislature, he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1866 and the State Senate in 1869 and 1870. He returned to the U. S. Lynde died in 1885 in Milwaukee at age 68 and he is interred in Milwaukees Forest Home Cemetery. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, william Pitt Lynde at Find a Grave
