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Part of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway: five locks with hand-operated wooden gates, a guard lock, a dam, canal, boathouse, drydock, lock-keeper's house, and various sheds. [51] All help vessels around a 50-foot rapids in the Fox River. Constructed in the 1850s by private companies. Largely rebuilt in the 1880s by the Army Corps of Engineers. [52] 26
Seven Pines Lodge: Seven Pines Lodge: December 8, 1978 : SE of Lewis of WI 35: Lewis: Rustic resort complex built 1903-1910 for Minnesota wheat broker Charles E. Lewis by Norwegian carpenter John "Ole" Mangseth.
The Marvin Hardware store/Masonic Lodge at 117 South Main Street is a nicely decorated Romanesque Revival building erected in 1898, [2] [8] described in more detail in its own article. The Netherwood building at 104 Janesville Street (center left in the photo above) is another two-story, cream brick, Romanesque Revival building.
The Memorial Arch was added in 1912, fifty years after the war, located where one of the camp's gates stood, where soldiers would have entered and left. It was designed by Lew F. Porter, with a statue on the left of a young Civil War recruit, and a statue on the right of an aging Civil War veteran in 1912.
Built in 1933 by local townspeople with a lamella truss dome on land donated by Charles F. Taylor, this was the first indoor hockey arena in Wisconsin. It has also hosted boxing, circuses, roller-skating, and today the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame. [19] [20] 6: The Everett Resort: The Everett Resort: October 8, 2008 : 1269 Everett Rd.
Situated entirely above the Arctic Circle, Gates of the Arctic is the northernmost national park in the U.S. and second largest behind Wrangell-St. Elias. Together with its preserve, Gates of the ...
The park is the home of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (Shaarei Shamayim). [1] The 1863 building, a popular site for weddings of all faiths, is the eighth-oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States. [2] In the 1970s it was purchased by the city, restored, and moved to the park. [3] [4]
Powers Bluff County Park was established in 1936 from land given to the county. [13] The park offers inner-tubing and downhill skiing with tows and a warming house on weekends, and cross-country skiing during the winter season. [2] Seventy acres to the east of the park is a state Natural Area called Powers Bluff Maple Woods. [14]