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East Troy Electric Railroad Lake Geneva Historical Walking Tour Lyons Town Hall Rustic Roads Yerkes Observatory Lake Geneva Museum Old World Wisconsin Webster House |
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| 2002 N. Church Street, East Troy, WI. 262.642.3263 Historic streetcars, rapid transit cars, and interurbans make a ten-mile round trip between East Troy and The Elegant Farmer - Wisconsin's Largest Farm Market at Highways J and ES near Mukwonago. Regular service begins the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend and continues through the end of October on every weekend. Weekday service operates from mid-June through mid-August. Special events include Trolleyfest Weekend in early spring, Model Railroad weekend, and Fall Fun Days, the fall colors riding season, that connects with The Elegant Farmer's "Cheap Fun" Fall Weekends, with hayrides, pumpkin picking, and many other activities. The Elegant Farmer also features the best apple pies "you ever hung a lip on". The East Troy Electric Railroad also features award-winning dinner train service, using the railroad's Art Deco diner twins, Ravenswood and Beverly Shores. For more information, visit http://www.easttroyrr.org. |
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| Historical walking tour booklet available for a minimal fee. Outlines significant features of Lake Geneva. Available at the Chamber of Commerce office. |
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| Downtown Lyons, WI. restored historical building built in 1877. |
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| A rustic road has natural features along its borders such as rugged terrain, native vegetation, native wildlife, or include open areas with agricultural vistas which singly or in combination, uniquely set this road apart from other roads. |
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| 373 W. Geneva St., Williams Bay. 262.245.5555 Yerkes Observatory offers free public tours every Saturday throughout the year at fifteen minutes past ten, eleven, and noon. You may wish to attend the free brief Quester Museum program at ten, eleven, and noon, immediately before the tour. During the 10:15, 11:15, and 12:15 tour, the tour guide provides a brief talk on the history of Yerkes, astronomical research, and our amazing universe. He will also take visitors into the 90-foot dome, one of the largest of its kind ever built. Here, visitors look at the famed 40-inch refractor, the world's biggest lens-type telescope, and its impressive 73-foot diameter elevator floor. Note that the dome interior is unheated, and during late fall and winter temperatures inside are as chilly as out doors. Please dress appropriately. Before or after the tour, visitors may look at a time line display on the main floor that covers Yerkes Observatory's early history and is adorned with dozens of photographs from the 1890s. Other hall displays concentrate on comets, galaxies, nebulae, and the death of stars. A gift shop offers authentic meteorites, VCR tapes, color postcards, T-shirts, sweatshirts, scientific kits, books, guides to the stars and planets, and many other science and astronomy-related items. For more information, visit http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes. |
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| 818 Geneva Street, Lake Geneva. 262.248.6060 Local history. Open May through October: Spring & Fall, - Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Holidays. Summers, - Thursday thru Monday. 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. |
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| Hwy. 67, 12 miles north of Elkhorn. 262.594.6300 Open daily May 1 through October 31. Admission - $11.00 for adults. Any day of the spring, summer, and fall - only thirty-five miles from Milwaukee - expect to find yourself immersed in historical scenes of farm and village life re-created by real-life characters out of the past. Farmers still ply fields with antique farm implements lugged by teams of oxen and horses. Women and children work side-by-side on chores that change with the season - from planting gardens in the spring to stocking larders in the fall. Farmsteads and settlements representing German, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Yankee, and African-American pioneers dot nearly 600 acres of rolling, wooded hills as unspoiled as the land that greeted the first settlers. And an 1870s crossroads village tells the story of small-town life in America's Heartland. Come discover a place where history truly lives and breathes. Come home to Old World Wisconsin. For more information and to find out about special events, visit http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/oww. |
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| Elkhorn. 262.723.4248 or 262.723.5788. Local history. Open May 1 - September 30, daily Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Nestled on a quiet street in the city of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, the Webster House Museum is a well maintained white clapboard house. The composer Joseph P. Webster once owned the home. Both the structure and its famous owner played an important part of the history of Elkhorn. According to museum records, the Greek-revival style cottage was constructed in 1836 and was originally located in Elkhorn's public square, now known as courthouse square. The building served as the federal land grant office, selling land to Walworth County pioneers before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. The building originally measured 18 by 22 feet and was only one story. The land office was abandoned in 1840 and later moved to its present site at the corner of Rockwell and Washington Streets by LeGrand Rockwell, one of Elkhorn's first settlers. |
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