| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Denmark — Wisconsin's Maritime Industries |
| | Since about 1840, the lakeshore area from Manitowoc to Sturgeon Bay has been a center for shipping, fishing, and shipbuilding on the upper Great Lakes. Early shipping was characterized by sail and steam vessels docking at small private piers extending into the lake. In the 1860s, lakeshore communities improved their harbors so that ships could dock farther inland. Completion of the Sturgeon Bay Canal in 1880 greatly shortened the Lake Michigan-Green Bay passage. Manitowoc and Kewaunee became . . . — Map (db m22452) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Manitowoc — Manitowoc and the Car Ferries / S.S. Badger |
| | Manitowoc and the Car Ferries. In the first five decades of the 20th century, Lake Michigan railroad car ferry service aided national defense and the regional economy by providing a key transportation alternative to the railroad bottle neck in Chicago. At the Port of Manitowoc, where car ferries were the major cargo carriers, Manitowoc shipbuilders constructed eleven car ferries and maintained, repaired, and remodeled many more. Five of these ships were built for the Pere Marquette Line . . . — Map (db m11835) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Manitowoc — Manitowoc Submarines |
| | At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon America to rearm. Increasing the number of submarines became a goal. Because existing shipbuilders could not meet production schedules, the U.S. Navy approached Charles C. West, president of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company, and requested that his firm build submarines.
Government contracts led to the expansion and modernization of the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company facilities. Workers and engineers . . . — Map (db m12075) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Manitowoc — Manitowoc's Maritime Heritage |
| | In 1847 Captain Joseph Edwards built the schooner Citizen here, beginning an era of maritime tradition in Manitowoc which has still not ended. The Challenge, believed one of the first clipper ships produced on the Great Lakes, was built by one of the shipyards that lined the river banks. The Cora A., launched here in 1889, was the last schooner built on the Great Lakes.
During the late 1800s, the Goodrich Transportation Company played an important role in the growth . . . — Map (db m12073) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Maribel — Wisconsin's Dairy Industry |
| | The growth of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is a story of remarkable transfer of scientific knowledge to practical use. As dairy farming developed, Wisconsin's agriculture underwent transformation in less than 50 years.
Proposed as an alternative to wheat farming as early as the 1850s, dairying was common in southeastern and south central Wisconsin by the early 1860s. Farmers in other regions soon adopted diversified dairy farming, an enterprise favored by the state's geography. At . . . — Map (db m10709) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Two Rivers — 197 — Ice Cream Sundae |
| | In 1881, George Hallauer asked Edward C. Berner, the owner of a soda fountain at 1404 – 15th Street, to top a dish of ice cream with chocolate sauce, hitherto used only for ice cream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel and soon became very popular, but was sold only on Sundays.
One day a ten year old girl insisted she have a dish of ice cream "with that stuff on top," saying they could "pretend it was Sunday." After that, the confection was sold every day in many flavors. It lost . . . — Map (db m11772) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Valders — Site of Gjerpen Evangelical Lutheran Church |
| | Site
Gjerpen Evangelical
Lutheran Church
Founded 1850
Pastors
H. A. Stub 1850 - 1852
J. A. Otteson 1852 - 1860
L. M. Biorn 1862 - 1872
A. O. Alfsen 1872 - 1917
A. O. White 1917 - 1930
E. A. Fretheim 1931 - 1940
Martin Trygstad 1940 - 1945
Norman Berntson 1946 - 1952
Alvin Holland 1952 - 1957
Jerry Moe 1957 - 1959
Robert Onkka 1960 -
First Church Erected 1856
Second Church Erected 1876
Merged with Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church and Our . . . — Map (db m11961) |
| Wisconsin (Manitowoc County), Valders — 176 — Thorstein Veblen — (1857 – 1929) |
| | One of Wisconsin's most controversial figures, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, was born near here July 30, 1857. In 1865 the Veblen family moved to Minnesota where Thorstein graduated from college in 1880. He was a deep thinker, usually lonely and always in debt.
After receiving a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale in 1884, Veblen taught in several colleges. He was not a popular teacher but attracted dedicated followers to his extreme social and economic ideas. In 1899, his book "The Theory of the . . . — Map (db m11633) |
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