Do you know of any cool facts about your state, that other people might not know of? Or you find interesting?
Here are some facts about Wisconsin, you may know some already.
*Wisconsin is the cranberry capital of the WORLD. We produce over 2.1 billion barrels of cranberries!!
*Wisconsin is commonly known for cows, cheese, and beer
*The state bird is the American Robin
*Wisconsin became a state in 1848
*The state tree is the Maple
*The length of Wisconsin is 300 miles, the width is 280 miles
*Wisconsin has 14,927 lakes
*There is 108,000 miles of road in Wisconsin
*Horicon Marsh is the largest freshwater Cattail Marsh in the U.S.,
covering more than 32,000 acres.
*Wisconsin produces over 2.5 billion pound of cheese a year!!!
*Colby and brick cheese were the first two cheeses produced in Wisconsin
*Wisconsin is the largest producer of Ginseng in the U.S
*The first malted milk was made in Racine, Wisconsin in 1883
*Door county, Wisconsin, has more shoreline than anyother county in the United States. Over 250 miles.
*Wisconsin's deepest lake is Wazee Lake (by our cottage), it is over 300 feet deep. SCARRY! NEVER GOING TO SWIM/BOAT THERE!!!
*Georgia O'Keefe (a famous painter, deceased) was from
Wisconsin
*Harry Houdini, a famous magician, was raised in Wisconsin
*Carl Eliason, of St. Germain, Wisconsin, is the inventor of the snowmobile.
Kinda neat huh, share your state facts!!!