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Circus World Museum 426 Water St, Baraboo, WI, 53913 Business Phone: 608-356-8341, Dates of Operation: Open year round Circus World Museum is the world's largest historical attraction pertaining to the circus. First Capitol County Highway G, Belmont, WI, 53510 Business Phone: 608-987-2122, Dates of Operation: 05/27 - 09/02 First Capitol historic site includes two of the buildings in which the first session of the Wisconsin territorial legislature convened from October through December. H.H. Bennett Studio and History Center 215 Broadway, Wisconsin Dells, WI, 53965 Business Phone: 608-253-3523, Dates of Operation: 05/15 - 09/15 Exhibits trace the evolution of Wisconsin Dells through the lens of landscape photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Heritage Hill State Park 2640 S Webster Ave, Green Bay, WI, 54301 Business Phone: 920-448-5150, Toll Free Phone: 888-721-5150, *Recreation & Attractions Dates Of Operation: 05/26/2001 - 09/03/2001, *Events Dates Of Operation: Not specified *This property has been associated with more than 1 major interest, please check dates carefully. 25 historic buildings dating from 1672 through 1905; costumed interpreters will teach you about Northeastern Wisconsin's history as you tour Heritage Hill. Madeline Island Museum Madeline Island, WI Business Phone: 715-747-2415, Dates of Operation: 05/26 - 10/13 Madeline Island, historically the spiritual home of the Ojibwa people, became an important fur-trading center for the French in the 17th century. Old World Wisconsin S103 W37890 Highway 67, Eagle, WI, 53119 Business Phone: 262-594-6300, Dates of Operation: 12/13/2002 - 12/15/2002, 05/01 - 10/31, 12/07/2002 - 12/08/2002 Old World Wisconsin, America's largest outdoor museum of rural life, exhibits the lifestyles, ethnic traditions and challenges of 19th-century European immigrants. Pendarvis 114 Shake Rag Street, Mineral Point, WI, 53565 Business Phone: 608-987-2122, Dates of Operation: 05/15 - 10/31 Pendarvis traces its beginnings to Wisconsin's territorial lead-mining heyday during the 1830s and '40s, when many immigrant Cornish miners settled in Mineral Point. Stonefield P.O. Box 125, Cassville, WI, 53806 Business Phone: 608-725-5210, Dates of Operation: 05/25/2002 - 10/31/2002 Located on the Great River Road at the foot of towering bluffs atop Nelson Dewey State Park, Stonefield includes a re-created 1900s rural village. Villa Louis P.O. Box 65, Prairie du Chien, WI, 53821 Business Phone: 608-326-2721, Dates of Operation: 05/11/2002 - 10/31/2002 An 1870 Victorian mansion built by the family of Hercules Dousman, an entrepreneurial frontiersman who parlayed various investments into a fortune. Wade House W7767 Plank Rd, Greenbush, WI, 53026 Business Phone: 920-526-3271, Dates of Operation: 05/01 - 10/31 An 1850s stagecoach inn built alongside a plank road in Greenbush to serve carriage and wagon traffic. The site also includes the reconstructed Herrling sawmill. Wisconsin Historical Museum 2 E Main St, Madison, WI, 53703 Business Phone: 608-264-6555, Dates of Operation: Open year round Four floors of permanent and changing exhibits document Wisconsin history from prehistoric times to the present day. |
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