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Area code map for Wisconsin. The U.S. state of Wisconsin is serviced in five distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs) with the following area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). Area codes 414 and 715 were among the original North American area codes assigned in 1947.
Guitar player John Alexander Kondos in the 1970s and 1980s toured the club and bar circuit with various groupings of musicians such as John Kondos and his Fabulous Galaxies, Eastman Blues Band, and others. He died in June 2007 from cancer. [4] Vocalist Daniel Vincent Peil, in August 1979, lost his wife and all their three children in a house fire.
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
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1874 2-story home of railroad man and leading Catholic John Baasen, designed by Charles Gombert. Housed offices of German YMCA from 1888 to 1893. Used by Mt. Sinai Hospital starting in 1905, Wisconsin House Hotel in 1919, and Joe Kerscher's tavern in 1933.
A volunteer pilot flying three rescue dogs to a care facility in upstate New York died along with one of the dogs after his plane crashed in the state's Catskill Mountains, according to officials.
Jonathan and his twin brother Drew are the infamous dynamic duo from HGTV’s "Property Brothers," a show where they assist families in finding and renovating homes.The brothers Scott have also ...