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Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota has an ancient history that it is bringing forth one canoe at a time. The Wisconsin Historic Society has now found what it believes are 11 canoes, all from what was ...
About 3,000 years ago, indigenous people of the Ho Chunk Nation in the Lake Mendota region carved a dugout canoe, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a news release on Thursday, Sept. 22. A ...
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Lake Mendota originated after the Wisconsin glaciation, which occurred approximately 15,000 years ago.Glacial ice, which had covered the Madison lakes (Lakes Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa, and Waubesa) [5] at a thickness of over 300 meters, began to retreat northwest about 14,000 years ago, damming a glacial lake near the City of Middleton that now serves as the source of water for Pheasant Branch ...
The Bernard-Hoover Boathouse was built in 1915 on the shore of Lake Mendota on the isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin.Today it sits in James Madison Park - the oldest standing boathouse on Lake Mendota, a remnant of an era when commercial boating thrived in the "city of the four lakes."
Merrill Springs Mound Group II is a group of Native American mounds at 5030-5046 Lake Mendota Drive in Madison, Wisconsin.The group includes six to eight mounds and a nearby village site; it originally included up to 13-20 mounds, but many were destroyed by residential development in the area.
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State archaeologists and volunteers removed an ancient native American dugout canoe from Lake Munson on Nov. 29, 2010. The canoe was exposed during a drawdown of the lake. Florida has uncovered ...