Joanne Ricca from the Wisconsin Labor History Society considers the meaning and ongoing significance of the 1885 Bayview Massacre. #peoples250 #america250 #laborhistory #wisconsinhistory #americanhistory

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Shipwreck hunter discovers sunken 150-year-old luxury liner off the coast of Wisconsin Scuba diver Paul Ehorn's recent discovery of the Lac La Belle was nearly 60 years in the making and is part of an overall uptick in Great Lakes shipwreck discoveries.

Well this is a cool piece of Wisconsin history. A shipwreck hunter just discovered a 150-year-old luxury liner resting in Lake Michigan off Wisconsin’s coast. The Great Lakes keep receipts… they just wait a century to show them. ⚓️ #WisconsinHistory #GreatLakes #Shipwreck #LakeMichigan #Wisconsin

Lloyd Barbee didn’t ask Wisconsin nicely to desegregate its schools—he sued.
In 1965, his case forced Milwaukee to confront segregation it pretended didn’t exist.
Progress here has always been lawyered into existence.

#LloydBarbee #WisconsinHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #CivilRights #Milwaukee

Milwaukee, 1854: Joshua Glover was seized under the Fugitive Slave Act and locked up to be shipped back into slavery. A crowd broke him out of jail and helped move him to Canada—Wisconsin choosing resistance over compliance. #WisconsinHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #Milwaukee #UndergroundRailroad

Timmer’s Resort Historical Marker This property was acquired January 4, 1864, by Mathias and Margaret Timmer. In 1882, Timmer’s Hotel was opened. (A historical marker located near Slinger in Washington County, Wisconsin.)

#MarkeroftheWeek

Timmer’s Resort near #SlingerWI
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#wisconsinhistory #historicalmarker

More photographs by Charles Van Schaick from Black River Falls, Wisconsin

#charlesvanschaick #photography #vintagephotography #nativeamericans #hochunk #winnebago #blackriverfalls #hochunknation
#Indigenouspeoples #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #wisconsin #homesteaders #wisconsinhistory

More photographs by Charles Van Schaick from Black River Falls, Wisconsin

#charlesvanschaick #photography #vintagephotography #nativeamericans #hochunk #winnebago #blackriverfalls #hochunknation
#Indigenouspeoples #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #wisconsin #homesteaders #wisconsinhistory

More photographs by Charles Van Schaick from Black River Falls, Wisconsin

#charlesvanschaick #photography #vintagephotography #nativeamericans #hochunk #winnebago #blackriverfalls #hochunknation
#Indigenouspeoples #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #wisconsin #homesteaders #wisconsinhistory

More photographs by Charles Van Schaick from Black River Falls, Wisconsin

#charlesvanschaick #photography #vintagephotography #nativeamericans #hochunk #winnebago #blackriverfalls #hochunknation
#Indigenouspeoples #indigenouspeople #nativeamericans #wisconsin #homesteaders #wisconsinhistory

Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the vessels, which were discovered during research over the past five years

Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes—Including One That's 5,200 Years Old: The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the… @SmithsonianMag #Archaeology #WisconsinHistory #IndigenousCulture #DugoutCanoes #AncientArtifacts

1945 View of the Airport, Manitowoc, Wisconsin Postcard
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#ManitowocAirport #WisconsinHistory #VintagePostcard #AviationHeritage #BiplaneEra #HistoricAirports #EarlyAviation #MidwestHistory #OldPostcards #AirfieldsOfThePast #Postcards #AmericanAviationHistory #avgeek #Aviation #Wisconsin #Manitowoc

Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc, WI) My wife and I decided to give each other birthday experiences this year instead of birthday presents. This is why I took her to the Mid-Cont...

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Wisconsin became a U.S. territory in 1836 and achieved statehood in 1848, just a few years after Wales was founded!

Today, the village still honors its Welsh roots - from its name to local traditions that celebrate its unique heritage.

#WisconsinHistory #WalesWI

A sepia-toned, hazy historical-style scene of women and young girls working in a kitchen or institutional setting. The women, all wearing light-colored dresses and aprons, are engaged in tasks like washing, mixing, or holding bowls. Two small blonde-haired girls in similar dresses stand beside the women, one tugging gently on a woman’s apron. The overall atmosphere is dim, soft-focused, and somber, evoking an early 20th-century institutional environment. Altered from this image: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM99239

Between 1913–1963, 1,800+ Wisconsinites were forcibly sterilized under state eugenics laws.
Join CHASM on 10.20.25 5:30-7:00pm @ the Wisconsin Historical Society for an evening of learning and reflection with Prof. Nicole C. Nelson.
#MedicalHumanities #WisconsinHistory #CHASM
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social You can use #history and #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin, as an example of how #Socialism can be good. #WisconsinHistory #SewerSocialism #PragmaticSolutions

The Black Nite Uprising Historical Marker (A historical marker located in Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.)

#OtD in 1961, the Black Nite Uprising, a pre-Stonewall event where transwomen fought back against trans bashing, took place in #MilwaukeeWI

www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=254389

#WisconsinHistory
#LGBThistory

Underwater Archaeologists Were Looking for a Lost Shipwreck in Wisconsin. They Stumbled Upon a Different Vessel Instead Researchers think they have located the final resting place of the "L.W. Crane," a wooden side-wheel steam ship that caught fire and sank in the Fox River in 1880

Underwater Archaeologists Were Looking for a Lost Shipwreck in Wisconsin. They Stumbled Upon a Different Vessel Instead: Researchers think they have located the final resting place of the… @SmithsonianMag #UnderwaterArchaeology #Shipwrecks #WisconsinHistory #HistoricalResearch #MarineArchaeology

In our new book Historic Wisconsin Roadsides, we created 11 road trips with over 1,200 locations that we hand-picked. Gilles Frozen Custard is one of those classic places.

#HistoricWisconsinRoadsides #FondduLac #FrozenCustard #WisconsinHistory #Wisconsin #reedypress #smalltownplussize

Mysteriously belching neither smoke nor steam, the Ahnapee & Western #251 crosses Silver Creek at Algoma, WI in this detail from a fine mural in that town. When I was a small boy I thought steam engines were alive, like dragons.
#Ahnapee&Western #steamengines #railroads #Algoma #WisconsinHistory

Rural Arts Museum · Archives

Love me some local #WisconsinHistory, and a #UWSP student from Colby (yes, like the cheese) built a great
@omeka.org exhibit on the Colby Rural Arts Museum. Lots of potential for growth in this project, too!
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My 3 books
*Murder in Wauwatosa: The Mysterious Death of Buddy Schumacher
*Wicked Columbus, Indiana
*200 Years of First Presbyterian Church Columbus Indiana

#nonfiction #truecrime #religion #history #religioushistory #ilovebooks #readinglist #wisconsin #milwaukee #wisconsinhistory #indianahistory