Learn About Wisconsin
Learn about Wisconsin's Natives
First Inhabitants
Discover Wisconsin's history.
Early History
All about Wisconsin's landforms
Geography & Landforms
Industry and economy in Wisconsin
Economy
Capital:
Madison
 Entered the Union:
5/29/1848		 Population:
5,363,675
 Area (square miles)
65,498
State Bird:
Robin
 State Flower:
Wood Violet
 Nickname:
Badger State		 Governor:
Jim Doyle
Web Links:
State Home Page
Home Page for Students
Members of Congress 		 

Places to Visit in Wisconsin: (Click the links to learn more.)

Lumberjack Village - Hayward
Visit the home of Scheer’s Lumberjack Shows which have been featured on national television and on ESPN. Shows include demonstrations of power sawing, speed carving, the log joust, the axe throw, log rolling, and cross cut sawing.

Chippewa Valley Museum - Eau Claire
The museum exists to discover, collect, preserve and interpret the story of the Chippewa Valley and its people.

Houdini Historical Center - Appleton
Harry Houdini, the famous illusionist and escape artist, often claimed he was born in Appleton, although historians have finally determined that he was actually born in Hungary. This museum is dedicated to gathering and interpreting information and the life and career of Houdini. Memorabilia includes posters, lock picks, handcuffs, and straitjackets used by the magician in his shows.

Mount Horeb Mustard Museum - Mt. Horeb
The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum is the home of the world’s largest collection of prepared mustards, including almost 4,000 jars from all 50 states and more than 60 countries.

Pendarvis Historic Site - Mineral Point
Pendarvis traces its beginnings to Wisconsin's territorial lead-mining heyday during the 1830s and '40s, when many immigrant Cornish miners settled in Mineral Point to work the mines. What remains today is a collection of stone and stone-and-log cottages built by these immigrants in the tradition of their native Cornwall.

 
 

Famous Citizens:

Eric Heiden
Eric Heiden is a five-time gold medal winning speed skater of the 1980 Winter Olympics; born in Madison, Wisconsin. He was the first person in Olympic history to win five gold medals in individual events in the same Games. After the Olympics, Heiden turned to cycling and competed in the 1986 Tour de France.

 

 

Liberace
Famous musician; born in West Allis, Wisconsin. Wladziu Valentino Liberace was born into a musical family. His father was a member of the Milwaukee Philharmonic Orchestra. Young Wladziu received a scholarship to the Wisconsin College of Music, and by age 14, he was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony. In 1950, he appeared in his first movie, and by then was using his last name alone as a stage name. Eventually, he starred in his own television show, and then went on to stage shows in Las Vegas and at Radio City Music Hall.

 

 

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Author of the Little House books; born in Pepin, Wisconsin. Wilder wrote about her own life growing up in the 1870s and 1880s on the Midwestern frontier. The books, which include “Little House on the Prairie,” “Little House in the Big Woods,” and “On the Banks of Plum Creek” have become beloved to younger readers, and were later developed into a successful television series.

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright
America’s most famous architect; born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Wright designed everything from banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum. Some of his most famous structures include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Fallingwater, a private home in western Pennsylvania and the SC Johnson and Son Wax Company Administration Center in Racine, Wisconsin.