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Make yourself at home in Wisconsin history. Build a frame with timber from an Oshkosh logging trail. Borrow that Door County rooftop with the grazing goats. Attach a brightly painted barn stuffed with the bounty of the St. Croix Valley. Smuggle in a back porch from a Geneva Lake lodge, right under the noses of Milwaukee mobsters vacationing there. Flip on the television just as Brett Favre slips a tackle to complete an impossible pass. Settle down for the long haul with our Wisconsin history books. [View all Wisconsin books]
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Milwaukee County Parks
Milwaukee County Parks
$24.99
Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps
Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps
$21.99
Camps of Geneva Lake
Camps of Geneva Lake
$24.99
Milwaukee County's Oak Leaf Trail
Milwaukee County's Oak Leaf Trail
$21.99

Milwaukee County Parks

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Milwaukeeans love their parks, and with nearly 15,000 acres of parkland throughout Milwaukee County, there is much to love. But few know the story behind the development of this great park system. Milwaukee County Parks takes readers on a photographic tour of the area's earliest parks--town squares and beer gardens established by the early settlers--through the creation of city and county park commissions, to the parks today. It will leave one with a better appreciation of the vision and dedication it took to build such a park system and the need to assure it remains intact for the enjoyment and benefit of future generations.
Milwaukee County Parks

Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps

9781609492779

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Thousands of young men embarked on the adventure of a lifetime when they joined the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

Service at Wisconsin's popular state park offered notoriety absent at most camp assignments. While most of the CCC work around the country was in remote forests and farmlands, at Devil's Lake tourists could view CCC project activity each day, forging that labor into an essential part of the park experience. Historian Robert J. Moore interviews veterans and mines the archives to preserve this legacy so that the gasps of wonder at nature's marvels remain mixed with respect for the men who helped bring them forth.

Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps

Camps of Geneva Lake

9781467115315

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Geneva Lake camps provided education, activities, spirituality, and community in a healthy environment away from the city. The first sites were located on the western shores of Geneva Lake, with Camp Collie established in 1874; seventeen more followed. Although most camps were spiritually based, they differed in what they offered and who they served. People attending the camps came from all income levels and many cultures. Adult- and family-oriented camps provided a setting for vacations or conferences, and children's camps prided themselves on fostering responsibility and solid values. Images of America: Camps of Geneva Lake highlights 18 camps in the days of woolen bathing costumes, steam yachts, and platform tents.
Camps of Geneva Lake

Milwaukee County's Oak Leaf Trail

9781467140683

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Milwaukee loves the Oak Leaf Trail, a 125-mile path connecting the major Milwaukee County parks. But many don't know the history behind the trail.


Believing parks to be the "lungs of the people," long-range thinkers like Charles Whitnall advocated for the verdant spaces the trail would later snake through. To promote biking as an alternative to precious gasoline during wartime, Harold "Zip" Morgan designed a route that 1960s riders built on. Years later, bicycling enthusiasts worked overtime with local leadership to get a 76-mile route ready for the country's bicentennial, creating the beloved 76 Bike Trail. Join local author Jill Rothenbueler Maher as she uncovers the previously untold stories of a Milwaukee County treasure.

Milwaukee County's Oak Leaf Trail