“The Only Waunakee In The World” Is what they say about the small unknown town. Everytime someone asks where we live all we say is just outside of Madison, but not many people know all of the history this town holds. Trains and Farming, If you dig below the surface you can really find some interesting facts about this wonderful town.
Railroads
According to waunakeechamber.com two early settlers, Louis Baker and George C. Fish are two people that are not known by many, but these people were the ones who found and built up Waunakee. The exact date is unknown, but the two men, had a long railroad traveling across the grassy land in Wisconsin. When they found it the town was not labeled Waunakee, but was called Leicester. They had a list of names that sounded the best for the small town and in the end they chose Waunakee which in Indian translation means “the fair and pleasant valley.”
Right in the middle of Waunakee is an artifact that brings us back to 1871 when the Waunakee Train Depot was built. When George C. Fish and Louis Baker found Waunakee it was originally just their land that tracks ran through, but when Waunakee was built
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a train depot was built “Farm products such as livestock, cream, tobacco and grains were shipped from the depot.” It had continued like that for nearly 20 years until 1892 when widespread fire was sent through the town and burned it down. The Depot wasn’t rebuilt until 1896 and kept deporting trains. After nearly 100 years of deporting trains,it shut down and was closed in 1971 when the last attendant, Bob King locked it up. Buildings in Waunakee In 1906 A newly married couple Henry and Eveline Schumacher were moving into a new home. Henry Schumacher had recently built the home for after they were wed. The building was built and recently after, in 1908 Henry built a white barn with a small window and sliding doors. To this day the farm is still there. They had a kid named Marcella Schumacher in 1910, who lived there her whole life. Marcella took the house because she was the only child born to Henry and Eveline. When she was young, she had a dog named youknow and he was passed through the family. The farm has been passed through the family for nearly 100 years, and is still here. Nearly everyone in Waunakee knows about the Halloween on the farm which they hold every year. The current resident of the house are living there and rebuilding the memories, all of the things in the house are from the 1920’s or earlier trying to keep all of the artifacts. Marcella worked at the Waunakee School, which is still here to this day.
The schools were not the same back then than they are today because they had much more kids in one class than we do in this decade. As population.us states, it says that there were only about 1,600 people in Waunakee at the time she taught but still there were many students attending. Comparing the people living in Waunakee back then to now was a big difference the last time it was taken in 2016 there was nearly 13,600 which is more than 12,000 people more. So as you can see Waunakee has grown. If almost half of that was students you can imagine how small the schools were, as there was only about four schools. Waunakee schools taught almost the exact same curriculum as they do today, such as science, math, english, gym, and chorus, which is taught in most
schools. Citizens in Waunakee In Waunakee girl scouts mostly take part in parades and sell cookies. In 1960 they only sold Chocolate Mint, Shortbread, and Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies. Compared to now when there are selling nine different kinds of cookies. In 1960 Girl Scouts started going different places to sell in Waunakee like Piggly Wiggly. Not many people were girl scouts at the time. The girl scouts in Waunakee wore a green dress with a hat and bow occasionally they wore a sash but that was only as they got older. When the police station was first built in Waunakee in 1890 it started off with only three police. But In 1924 The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) came to Waunakee and were going to do a demonstration. They refused to leave the town as the town was small and easy to target. They told the citizens to evacuate unless they wanted to be killed but, the people were determined to stop them. The people all teamed up and attempted to stop them while others who were physically unable called the police. There was fighting for a few hours and guns were drawn, but no one was harmed. When the police showed up the KKK fought back. But eventually in the end KKK left Waunakee. The demonstration had been canceled with none hurt or arrested.
Cahokia and Moundsville are two very similar cities but in different parts of the country. First going into Cahokia; the name “Cahokia” came from an aboriginal people that lived in the city at about 17th century. It is located in southern Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville, right across from the Mississippi River. Cahokia was at its peak from 1050 to 1200 AD with a highest population of about ten to twenty thousand people. This city was spread over 6-square miles. Way bigger than the city of Moundsville. Moundsville is a large settlement of Mississippian culture on the Black Warrior River in central Alabama. This settlement was heavily populated with roughly about ten thousand people and took over almost more than three hundred and seventy acres and was built on a bluff over looking the Mississippi River.
Our name is derived by Vetromile from the Pānnawānbskek, 'it forks on the white rocks,' or Penobscot, 'it flows on rocks’. My tribe connected to the Abnaki confederacy (q. v.), closely related in language and customs to the Norridgewock. They are sometimes included in the most numerous tribe of the Abnaki confederacy, and for a time more influential than the Norridgewock. My tribe has occupied the country on both sides of Penobscot bay and river, and claimed the entire basin of Penobscot river. Our summer resort was near the sea, but during the winter and spring we inhabited lands near the falls, where we still reside today, My tribes principal modern village being called Oldtown, on Indian island, a few miles above Bangor, in Penobscot county.
The island was first home to Native Americans long before Europeans started settling there. The Great Lakes American Indians were the first to visit and use this island as a resource for their own livelihood. Primarily during the summer they would travel and fish here due to the abundance of food in the surrounding waters. The first known tribe to have inhabited the island was the Anishinaabe tribe. Artifacts such has arrow heads, fish hooks and pottery have been found and dated back to as early as 900 A.D. (Mackinaw Island). In 1671, Europeans began settling here when a man named Father Jacques Marquette created the first mission on the Island. He originally setu...
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The Plains region extends from south Canada into modern-day Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The relatively large area hosts many Native American tribes, which includes the Comanche, Kiowa, and Pawnee just to name a few. One of the biggest events and aspects of Plains region culture is what is known as the Powwow. This event is what makes this region unique and will be the main focus of this part of the essay.
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America was at last forced to officially enter World War II. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt officially declared war on the Japanese and in his famous radio address to the American people, he professed that December 7 was a day that would live in infamy. Americans and Japanese alike, still remember Pearl Harbor Day, but how many remember the gallant, fighting Marines who served on a tiny atoll in the Pacific by the name of Wake Island?
There is a deep relationship between the environment and Western Apache people. The bonds between the two are so strong that it is embedded in their culture and history. Keith Basso, author of Wisdom Sits in Places expanded on this theory and did so by divulging himself into Western Apaches life. He spent fifteen years with the Apache people studying their relationship with the environment, specifically concentrating on ‘Place-names.’ When Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn the names,’ because they held a special meaning with the community. (Cruikshank 1990: 54) Place-names are special names given to a specific locality where an event took place that was significant in history and crucial in shaping morals and beliefs. Through the use of place-names, the environment became a teaching tool for Apache people.
The film “Iowa- An American Portrait” was narrated by Tom Brokaw. It described the land, people, education, work, religion, and family life of Iowa. One of the main topics of the film was the general view of Iowa- the Farm State. Iowa has more than two- hundred- thousand farms; ninety- eight percent of Iowa’s total land is used for production; with ninety percent of total land being used for the production of food.
...higan, they are The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. The Little River Band is full and rich in culture. Some people don’t acknowledge the Ottawa tribe here in Manistee Michigan, or really even know who they are or how they feel. I feel as though that the Ottawa tribe has a huge positive impact on Michigan’s history. Thereby, I have written this essay to discuss and reveal the culture and the day-to-day of the Ottawa tribe with observations, interviews and research.
materials. The. The poor quality of education and environment at Linda's. school was because the Topeka Board of Education spent much more money. on the white school than on Linda's school for blacks.
The Penobscot nation is otherwise known as the Wabanaki, or at least one of the tribes within it is known or had been known as the Wabanaki. The Wabanaki themselves have in the early days of Indian history an ongoing feud with the Mohawks (Iroquois nation). The Penobscot nation had suffered like all Indians from European contact. The Penobscot nation's main source of food came from seals, otters, moose, bears, caribou, seafood, beavers, birds, eggs, berries and nuts. The Penobscot nation was formerly known as the Penobscot tribe of Maine, and the word "Penobscot" means rocky part or descending cliffs. (this also referred to the penobscot river in between old town and Bangor, ) From European contact the Penobscot nation went from 10,000 strong, to 500 in the early 19th century. In the french and Indian war the Penobscots sided with the french and paid for it later, when the English put a bounty on their scalps. The state in the early parts of Maine used ...
This tribe is ever flowing and changing, this can be seen in the fact that they moved constantly but also their original name. The Osage were originally known as Ni-u-ko’n-ska and that means “children of the middle waters”. Their name later changed to Wah-Zha-Zhi which was translated by French explorers, who had come to America, and was later the English word Osage (Brief History). The Osage got this name because initially their territory ranged from between the Arkansas River to the Mississippi River and then up along both sides of the Ohio River up into Pennsylvania.
The first written record of the Waccamaw Siouan people appeared in 1712. The tribe, then known as the Woccon, lived near Charleston, SC. After fighting a war with South Carolina, the Waccamaw Siouan retreated to the swampland of North Carolina. Today the tribe lives near Lake Waccamaw in Columbus and Bladen Counties. The tribe has about 2000 members.
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Two Rivers is a town were the pace of life doesn’t get any slower. Its slow paced atmosphere and friendly townspeople make you feel like you are in the South. Trees line the quiet streets of the all American city. In the center of town are gracious old buildings that frame Central Park. Young and old gather here for festivals, or just to sit and talk. Band Concerts are also held in Central Park on a regular basis. Tourists shop at all the well-kept stores and are often greeted with a friendly smile. Two Rivers is a town were every body knows your name.