File:Wisconsin Dells - Flickr - Me in ME.jpg
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Last year while on a drive to Minnesota we took a brief break at Wisconsin Dells, a major tourist destination in Wisconsin. The river scenery is gorgeous. The town, not so much. Wisconsin Dells is a city in in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. A popular Midwestern tourist destination, Wisconsin Dells is home to several water parks and tourist attractions. The city takes its name from the Dells of the Wisconsin River, a scenic, glacial-formed gorge that features sandstone formations along the banks of the Wisconsin River. The natural formation of the Dells was named by Early French explorers as dalles, a rapids or narrows on a river in voyageur French. Wisconsin Dells is located on ancestral Ho-Chunk and Menominee land. The Ho-Chunk name for Wisconsin Dells is Nįįš hakiisųc, meaning "rocks close together". The city of Wisconsin Dells, was founded in 1856 by the Wisconsin Hydraulic Company, a dam-building and real estate investment business. In 1859, lumbermen destroyed the Wisconsin Hydraulic Company's new because it blocked the flow of timber rafts down the river. This led the company's main creditor, Byron Kilbourn, to foreclose on its property and take ownership of most of the city's real estate. The city quickly became a popular travel destination in the Midwest due to the scenery of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and the ready railroad access. [Wikipedia] |
| Date | Taken on 10 September 2023, 12:26 |
| Source | Wisconsin Dells |
| Author | Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA |
| Flickr tags | wisconsin dells, wisconsin |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Me in ME at https://flickr.com/photos/12357841@N02/53729362188. It was reviewed on 3 June 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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