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Wales is located at (43.003882, -88.377558 It is about 28 miles (45 km) west of Milwaukee . The city is also a few miles south of Lapham Peak State Forest , notable for its many popular hiking trails and for being home to the highest point in Waukesha County, at 1,233 ft (376 m) above sea level.
Lapham Peak Unit, Kettle Moraine State Forest. / 43.04056°N 88.40028°W / 43.04056; -88.40028. Lapham Peak is a Wisconsin state park located in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. It is just south of Delafield and seven miles (11 km) west of Waukesha. The park entrance is two miles (3 km) north of the Glacial Drumlin State Trail .
Five counties in Wisconsin have been renamed, but otherwise kept their same borders. [ 11] Bad Axe County existed from 1851 to 1862. It was named after the Bad Axe River and the Battle of Bad Axe. It was renamed to Vernon County in 1862. [ 12] Dallas County existed for 10 years, from 1859 to 1869.
Nolen was a city planner who saw the Rock River as a focal point for community and park development. His park planning established Janesville as the "City of Parks." [10] Janesville was the site of the first Wisconsin State Fair in 1851, attended by approximately 10,000 people. [19]
Wisconsin currently has 51 state park units, covering more than 60,570 acres (245.1 km 2) in state parks and state recreation areas. Each unit was created by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature and is maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation. The Division of Forestry manages a further 471,329 ...
88000454 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 21, 1988. Ethan Allen School for Boys was a reform school in Delafield Town, Wisconsin [ 2] (although the mailing address stated Wales, Wisconsin) which operated in a former tuberculosis sanitorium from April 1959 until June 2011, when it was abolished and the inmates moved to Lincoln Hills School in Irma. [ 3 ...
In 1846, Wolcott constructed a dam and a sawmill in the new community, and in 1848, he constructed a gristmill. [14] In 1845, land surveyor and early settler Barton Salisbury built a sawmill on the river north of West Bend. The community that grew around the mill was known as Salisbury's Mills before to the name was changed to Barton in 1853.
920. FIPS code. 55-31000 [ 10 ] GNIS feature ID. 1565801 [ 11 ] Website. greenbaywi .gov. Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Fox River.