1900-1918

Arpin / Agriculture / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / 1900-1918 / Society & Religion / Region 4 - Center / Wood County / Synagogue Window

The Arpin Settlement of Jewish Farmers

Today the largest Jewish communities in Wisconsin exist in the cities with the highest populations. This, however, was not always the case. Around 1900, there were many new and budding Jewish communities across the state in places like Sheboygan, La Crosse, and Eau Claire. There were also smaller, rural communities emerging like the Arpin Settlement in Wood County. 

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July 7, 2020

Sheboygan / Ethnicity & Identity / Related Stories / Curators' Favorites / 1877-1900 / Global Connections / 1900-1918 / Sheboygan County / Society & Religion / Region 5 - Center East / Synagogue Window

Jewish Immigration from Russia to Sheboygan

The first Russian Jews arrived in Sheboygan in the 1880s. Like many other immigrants, they often followed their "landsleit" (fellow townsmen) to settlements in the new world, with the result that many of Sheboygan's Jewish immigrants came from a relatively small area east of Vilna and north of Minsk in current-day Belarus. They settled on the northwest side of Sheboygan, in a neighborhood bounded by 13th and 15th Streets, Geele Avenue on the north, and Bluff Avenue on the south.

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July 7, 2020

Sheboygan / Object Histories / Ethnicity & Identity / Global Connections / 1900-1918 / Sheboygan County / Society & Religion / Region 5 - Center East / Synagogue Window

OBJECT HISTORY: Synagogue Window

This synagogue window is a testament to the successful efforts of hundreds of Russian Jews to recreate a familiar community in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in the early twentieth century.

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July 7, 2020

Object Histories / Ino / Ethnicity & Identity / Bayfield County / Curators' Favorites / Global Connections / 1900-1918 / Region 1 - North West / Society & Religion

OBJECT HISTORY: Slovak Catholic Altar

During the 19th and early 20th century, immigrants from all across Europe began coming to Wisconsin. Some had heard of economic opportunity from industries like mining, logging, or farming. Some were being treated unfairly in their home countries because of their race or religion.…

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April 6, 2020

Soo Engine 1003 / Maritime Industry / Lumber Industry / Related Stories / Mining Industry / 1877-1900 / 1900-1918 / Region 1 - North West / 1918-1945 / Transportation & Tourism

The Soo Line

In the second half of the nineteenth century, railroads remade the geography of the Midwest. In an era when roads were often muddy filled with holes, the railroad made it faster to travel from Superior to Milwaukee by rail than from Superior…

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April 15, 2019

Soo Engine 1003 / Industry / Object Histories / 1900-1918 / Region 1 - North West / 1918-1945 / Transportation & Tourism

OBJECT HISTORY: Soo Line Engine #1003

In the second half of the nineteenth century, railroads remade the geography of the Midwest. In an era when roads were often muddy filled with holes, the railroad made it faster to travel from Superior to Milwaukee by rail than from Superior to Ashland by wagon. In Wisconsin, the Chicago and Northwestern, The Milwaukee Road,…

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April 15, 2019