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Location: Walworth County, Wisconsin, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Primary outflows: White River: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 12 km (7.8 mi): Max. width: 3.2 km (2 mi): Surface area: 5,401 acres (2,186 ha; 8.439 sq mi; 21.86 km 2): Average depth: 61 feet (19 m): Max. depth: 135 feet (41 m): Settlements: Lake Geneva, Fontana-on-Geneva-Lake, Williams Bay: Geneva Lake ...
The Main Street Historic District in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 2002. The listing was amended in some way in a revised listing on March 5, 2002.
Lake Geneva remains a popular summer tourism destination for boating, water sports, and viewing the mansions, which can be seen from the public Geneva Lake Shore Path. Two historic Lake Geneva mansions are open to the public: the Baker House, built in 1885, now a bed-and-breakfast; and Black Point, the lakefront summer estate built for beer ...
In 1899 the house was bought by J.V. Seymour, the "Ice King" who harvested ice on Lake Geneva in the winter and shipped tons of it to Chicago each year. [6] [2] The ca. 1863 Farrington-Redfearn House at 1024 Geneva St is a 2-story Italianate house, frame with a low-pitched hip roof and wide bracketed eaves. S.P. Farrington bought the house in ...
Lake Geneva Depot: July 31, 1978 (#78000144) February 18, 1987: Broad St. Lake Geneva: Depot of the C&NW Railroad, designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Queen Anne style and built in 1891. Demolished in August 1986. [96] 3: Loramoor: January 16, 1980 (#80000201) May 30, 1986: S of Lake Geneva at 774 S. Lake Shore Dr. Lake Geneva vicinity
Big Foot Beach State Park is a state park of Wisconsin, United States, on Geneva Lake.The park is used primarily for hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing. The beach and park are named for Big Foot (a translation from the Potawatomi Maumksuck (Mmangzed), also known in French as Gros Pied), an early Potawatomi leader in the area until his band forcibly relocated by the United States in 1836.
In 2023 it found 5,167 watercraft docked, moored, or available for in-out service on Geneva Lake, including a year-over-year increase of 19% in motorized boats and about twice as many personal ...
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, emerged as a resort town in the 1870s, popularized by images of its side-wheeler steamboats.The lakeshore at Broad Street became the main water transportation hub with the construction of the Whiting House Hotel; the train station was located approximately .5 miles due north on Broad St.