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Baraboo (/ ˈ b ɛər ə b uː / BAIR-ə-boo) [5] is the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States, located along the Baraboo River. [6] The population was 12,556 as of the 2020 census . The most populous city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo micropolitan statistical area which comprises a portion of the ...
August 4, 1969 [2] The Circus World Museum is a museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, devoted to circus -related history. The museum features circus artifacts and exhibits and hosts daily live circus performances throughout the summer. It is owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society and operated by the non-profit Circus World Museum Foundation.
The Man Mound is a precontact earthwork of a humanoid figure located in Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, east of the city of Baraboo. Constructed during the Late Woodland period, the mound is the only surviving anthropomorphic effigy mound in North America. The mound depicts a humanoid figure with horns or a horned headdress [2] and may have ...
The St. Joseph County Grange Fair typically draws about 150,000 people during its weeklong run. Regan Noga tends to her cow, “Pretty Red,” during the 2023 St. Joseph County Grange Fair.
January 4, 2012. ( #11001015) 626 Water St. 43°16′26″N 89°43′13″W. / 43.273783°N 89.720169°W / 43.273783; -89.720169 ( Otto Sr. and Lisette Hahn House) Sauk City. Red brick house built between 1850 and 1857. Hahn, an immigrant harness -maker bought the house in 1866 and built a workshop next to it. After his wife Lisette ...
Black Hawk (Sauk leader) Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (c. 1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief.
Reedsburg is a city in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States within the Baraboo micropolitan area. Its population in 2020 was 9,984. The city is surrounded by the Town of Reedsburg and is situated along the Baraboo River. Prior to the arrival of non-indigenous people in the 19th century, the region was home to groups of Ho-Chunk. Established as ...
History. The rail line used by the Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a spur off the original Chicago and North Western Railway mainline. With the development of the Illinois Iron mine in early 1903, the C&NW sent a team of engineers on July 8, 1903, to survey a route to the iron fields. By August 12, C&NW president Marvin Hughitt had arrived in ...