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The first permanent modern settlement along the marsh was the town of Horicon. In 1846, a dam was built to power the town's first sawmill. The dam held the water in the marsh, causing the water level to rise by nine feet. The "marsh" was called Lake Horicon, and was, at the time, called the largest man-made lake in the world.
The Bad Axe Massacre was a massacre of Sauk (Sac) and Meskwaki (Fox) Native Americans by United States Army regulars and militia that occurred on August 1–2, 1832. This final scene of the Black Hawk War took place near present-day Victory, Wisconsin, in the United States.
In 1872, amateur historian Nehemiah Matson related a story about the execution of a couple, James and Lucy Sample, by Potawatomis. According to Matson, the two were bound to a tree and then burned to death. The executions, said Matson, were directed by a man named Mike Girty, who was supposedly a mixed race son of Simon Girty. [15]
The Horicon Marsh Veteran Hunt is a nonprofit organization founded by Dodge and the late Ryan Voy of Horicon, friends who grew up hunting on the marsh. The idea for the event was born on Memorial ...
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A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Several videos and photographs of the hole left by the plane show a living woman inside the hole, generally identified as Edna Cintrón, waving at people in the streets below. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The victim appears outside among the mass of iron and leaning on one of the ruins of the structure while shaking her hand, and right arm.
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