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In the 1840s and early 1850s, Washington County included the land along Lake Michigan that is now Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Port Washington served as the county seat, which was controversial at the time. West Bend, Cedarburg, and Grafton vied for position of Washington County seat and the material advantages it would entail. In 1850, the ...
County residents failed to ratify the bill, and in 1853 the legislature instead bisected the county into eastern and western sections, creating Ozaukee County. Port Washington became the seat of the new county, and the Washington County seat moved to West Bend. [16] In the 1840s, German, Irish, and Luxembourger immigrants began settling in the ...
West Bend is a town in Washington County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,834 at the 2000 census. The population was 4,834 at the 2000 census. The City of West Bend is located partially within the town.
State Trunk Highway 143 (often called Highway 143, STH-143 or WIS 143) was a 7.5-mile (12.1 km) state highway in Washington and Ozaukee counties in Wisconsin, United States, that ran east–west between south of West Bend and Cedarburg.
Families attend the Wisconsin State Fair on Aug. 1 in West Allis. Only a tiny fraction of state fair attendees are arrested Last year, the state fair’s police arrested 36 people, Pileggi said.
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 136,761. [1] Its county seat is West Bend. [2] The county was created from Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and organized in 1845. [3] It was named after President George Washington. [4]
Cluster of 11 parcels on the west side of Green Bay Road, which the government built in the 1830s to connect Milwaukee with Fort Howard. Structures include the 1884 Queen Anne-styled Hoeft house, [ 31 ] the 1889 Gierach Blacksmith /Grocery Shop, [ 32 ] the 1909 Queen Anne Staudy house, [ 33 ] and the 1929 Hadler Harness and Printing Shop.
A graphic shows detections of chronic wasting disease in wild and captive deer in Wisconsin. The data spans late 2001 to early 2023.