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Location of Washington County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Washington County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties ...
Washington County was created on December 7, 1836, by the Wisconsin Territory Legislature, with Port Washington designated as the county seat. It was run administratively from Milwaukee County until 1840, when an Act of Organization allowed the county self-governance, and the county seat was moved to Grafton, then called Hamburg.
The Farm and Ranch Market Journal became Western Livestock Journal in the early 1930s. In 1952, Nelson purchased Livestock Magazine from the Biggs family in Denver.The two weeklies were combined in the ’70s to create one national edition of Western Livestock Journal and the monthly magazine was renamed Livestock Magazine, and split into three editorial editions.
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The Washington County Fair Park and Conference Center is located five miles south of the city. Numerous events are held throughout the year, including the Washington County Fair. [69] The facility was built in 1999 and has a 24,000 sq. ft. pavilion, Agricultural and Equestrian Complexes and theater entertainment areas. [70]
As of the census [2] of 2000, there were 1,727 people, 582 households, and 485 families residing in the town. The population density was 48.2 people per square mile (18.6/km 2).
WHAA covers a large previously underserved portion of Southern Central Wisconsin along the Wisconsin River providing city grade WPR reception to areas such as Wisconsin Rapids, Portage, Adams and Juneau counties as well as popular tourist areas such as Wisconsin Dells, Castle Rock Lake and Petenwell Lake.
Leonard J. Yahr County Park: Once the site of a sawmill and match factory, the park now contains hiking trails and a public beach on the shore of Erler Lake. [ 21 ] Lizard Mound County Park : The park contains self guided walking trail through a collection of twenty-eight earthen mounds in animal and geometric shapes built between 1,000–1,500 ...