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Grandad's bluff La Crosse. Grandad Bluff (also Granddad Bluff) is a bluff on the east side of La Crosse, Wisconsin. [1] It is approximately 590 feet (180 m) above the surrounding land and 1,183 feet (361 m) above sea level.
Mindoro Cut is a cut in the Town of Farmington in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, [2] which carries County Trunk Highway C through Phillips Ridge, linking Mindoro with West Salem. The cut is 74 feet (23 m) deep, 86 feet (26 m) long, and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide; it is the second-deepest cut built by hand in the Western Hemisphere and the oldest ...
Gnostics discussed Adam and Eve in two known surviving texts, namely the "Apocalypse of Adam" found in the Nag Hammadi documents and the Testament of Adam. The creation of Adam as Protoanthropos, the original man, is the focal concept of these writings. Another Gnostic tradition held that Adam and Eve were created to help defeat Satan.
Remnant of the commercial downtown of the village of North La Crosse, [31] including the 1883 Italianate-style Apsey Block, [32] the 1888 Italianate Wannebo Grocery, [33] the 1891 Italianate Willing Dry Goods store, [34] the 1895 Queen Anne-style Horner Block (later used by an undertaker), [35] and the 1920 Neoclassical-style Riviera Theatre.
La Crosse (/ l ə ˈ k r ɒ s / lə-KROSS) [6] is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. [7] La Crosse's population was 52,680 as of the 2020 census. [2]
On September 28, 1999, a letter was sent for consideration to the Vatican, and on November 11, 1999, the Holy See gave the project its approval and blessing. 70 acres (280,000 m 2) of woodland near the south end of La Crosse were then donated by Robert and Lucille Swing. [5] Groundbreaking began on June 17, 2001.
New Amsterdam is an unincorporated community located in the town of Holland, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. History. 86 original Dutch settlers settled in the area in 1853. The town steadily expanded in the 1850s, seeing a post office in 1855 and its first town hall meeting in 1858. Notes
St. Rose of Viterbo Convent is the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, an American religious congregation, which is located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The convent is dedicated to Rose of Viterbo , a 13th-century Franciscan tertiary who was a noted mystic and street preacher in Italy who died while still a teenager.