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This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. National Historic Landmarks are designated by the U.S. National Park Service, which recognizes buildings, structures, districts, objects, and sites which satisfy certain criteria for historic significance. There are 45 National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin.
The second mission chapel is the oldest Catholic church in Michigan and Wisconsin. [5] The St. Ignace Mission was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956, [ 1 ] and was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmarks in 1960, one of the earliest sites recognized. [ 3 ]
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6 March 1475 [c] in Caprese, known today as Caprese Michelangelo, a small town situated in Valtiberina, [10] near Arezzo, Tuscany. [11] For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence ; but the bank failed, and his father Ludovico briefly took a government post ...
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a burial of 3 dogs suggestive of the early historic practice of dog sacrifice. Dog burials have also been noted at a site in St. Ignace, Michigan, and there are accounts from early French explorers describing the practice among Great Lakes tribes. [4] a human burial; several other burials were uncovered when the site was originally discovered ...
The Potawatomi Islands is the most common historic name given to the string of islands that delineate the transition from Green Bay to Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes. The archipelago is also termed the "Grand Traverse Islands". The largest of the islands is Washington Island, in Door County, Wisconsin. [1]
William Tocco, known member of the Detroit Mafia; Walter Briggs Sr., owner of the Detroit Tigers [4] Al Cicotte, baseball player for the Detroit Tigers [5] Charles Coughlin, Roman Catholic priest and noted radio commentator during the 1930s and 1940s [6] John Francis Dearden, Archbishop of Detroit, 1958–1980, created Cardinal in 1969 [7]
Detail of NOAA Chart #14909 Closer detail of NOAA Chart. Porte des Morts, also known as Porte des Mortes, the Door of Death, and Death's Door is a strait linking Lake Michigan and Green Bay between the northern tip of the Door Peninsula and the southernmost of the Potawatomi Islands.