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Mercedes Herman's Welding Uniform / Military History / Industry / Maritime Industry / Door County / Related Stories / Sturgeon Bay / 1918-1945 / Region 5 - Center East

Women in Shipbuilding during World War II

Most people recognize the patriotic World War II campaign of “Rosie the Riveter,” which aimed to recruit female workers to patch the gaps in industrial labor left by male military enlistment. Shipyards, specifically, hired women into the war effort at an exponential…

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June 10, 2025

Mercedes Herman's Welding Uniform / Maritime Industry / Industry / Related Stories / Door County / Sturgeon Bay / 1900-1918 / Manufacturing & Trade / 1918-1945 / 1945-1965 / Region 5 - Center East

Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Drydock Company

The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal opened in 1881 to provide a sailing route through the Door Peninsula to both shorten the shipping distance between cities on Green Bay and Lake Michigan and to avoid the treacherous waters of the Porte des Mortes…

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Military History / Indigenous Wisconsin / Related Stories / 1848-1877 / Nature & Environment / Price County / Politics & Government / Eagle Feather

Finding Ogimaa Weigiizhig

Ogimaa Weigiizhig (sometimes Ahgamahwegezhig, also known as Chief Big Sky and Old Jackson) was a leader of the Ojibwe, Lac du Flambeau Band. Late in age, in March 1914, he spoke to a reporter at Lac du Flambeau about his capture of…

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Military History / Related Stories / 1848-1877 / 1877-1900 / Nature & Environment / Politics & Government / Price County / Eagle Feather

Old Abe: In Life

In 1861, a group of Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe traders set up a camp near the South Fork of the Flambeau River in what is now the Chequamegon National Forest. This group was led by Ogimaa Weigiizhig (Chief Big Sky), son of…

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Janesville / Industry / Related Stories / Manufacturing & Trade / Rock County / 1918-1945 / 1945-1965 / 1965-1987 / 1987-2011 / Transportation & Tourism / Chevy Caprice / Region 7 - South Center

Janesville General Motors Assembly Plant

The Janesville Assembly Plant’s near ninety-year run helped define both the city and its workers and the General Motors Company as one of the most successful automakers in the world. The history of the plant is deeply rooted in Janesville’s agricultural past.…

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February 17, 2025

Lac du Flambeau / Odanah / Broad History / Indigenous Wisconsin / Agriculture / Ashland County / Food & Cooking / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / Region 1 - North West / Nature & Environment / Region 2 - North East / Vilas County / Ricing Sticks

Wild Rice and Wetland Conservation

Wild rice grows only in the Great Lakes Region in shallow and calm waters.  It requires specific conditions, nutrient-rich muddy soil and stable water levels, in order to properly grow to maturity, to produce the seeds able to be harvested. Damaging the…

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