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Development in the district began in the 1840s shortly after Burlington was settled and continued through the mid-twentieth century, though construction peaked in the decades after the Wisconsin Central Railroad opened a station in Burlington in 1884. Many of the homes in the district belonged to Burlington's most influential residents ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Burlington Downtown Historic District is a 15 acres (6.1 ha) historic district located in Burlington, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1] It includes 80 contributing buildings and 17 non-contributing ones, as well as a non-contributing site. Included are:
Robert Emmett "Bobby" Lynch (July 30, 1878 [1] – May 1, 1959) was an American baseball player and manager, salesman, and Democratic politician from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He represented Green Bay for ten terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly , serving from 1933 to 1937, and then from 1943 to 1959.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Ohio, Wisconsin: 1978–1991: 16: Known as the "Milwaukee Cannibal" [16] David Van Dyke: Milwaukee 1979–1980 6 Burglar who murdered people after tricking them into letting him into their homes [17] Lorenzo Fayne: Wisconsin, Illinois: 1989–1993: 6: Serial killer and rapist who murdered one woman and five children in the states of Wisconsin ...
A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
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