) In July 1891, the Tennallytown and Rockville Railway inaugurated Rockville's first trolley service connecting to the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway terminus at Western Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue.

Although efforts to restore the town center continue, the majority of the city's economic activity has since relocated along Rockville Pike ( MD Route 355 / Wisconsin Avenue ).

The primary commercial corridors of Georgetown are the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue & M Street, which contain high-end shops, bars, restaurants, and the Georgetown Park enclosed shopping mall, as well as the Washington Harbour waterfront restaurants at K Street, NW, between 30th and 31st Streets.

Of these taverns, only the City Tavern remains today, as a private social club ( the City Tavern Club ) located near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and M Street.

Georgetown was home to a lumber yard, a cement works, the Washington Flour mill, and a meat rendering plant, with incinerator smokestacks and a power generating plant for the old Capital Traction streetcar system, located at the foot of Wisconsin Avenue, which closed in 1935, and was demolished in October 1968.

Shops along Wisconsin Avenue

Slave trading in Georgetown began in 1760, when John Beattie established his business on O Street and conducted business at other locations around Wisconsin Avenue.

Other slave markets (" pens ") were located in Georgetown, including one at McCandless ' Tavern near M Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

The city's oldest bridge, the sandstone bridge which carries Wisconsin Avenue over the C & O Canal, and which dates to 1831, was reopened to traffic on May 16, 2007, after a $ 3. 5 million restoration.

Wisconsin Highway 35 ( Tower Avenue ) serves as a main arterial route in the village.

Wisconsin Highway 35 ( Tower Avenue ) and Wisconsin Highway 105 are two of the main arterial routes in the community.

The village is home to the Old Main Street building on Wisconsin Avenue.

The Clark House Museum, located at 206 East Wisconsin Avenue in the Village of Pewaukee, was originally a stage coach inn on the Watertown Plank Road that ran from Milwaukee to Watertown.

They include the Algoma Boulevard, Irving / Church, North Main Street, Oshkosh State Normal School on the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh campus, Paine Lumber Company and Washington Avenue historic districts.

* Sherman Avenue in central Madison, Wisconsin is named in honor of Roger Sherman.

The Pabst Mansion along Wisconsin Avenue is a well-known Milwaukee tourist attraction and was the Pabst family home from 1892 to 1908.

The 07R / 25L runway has an overpass with Wisconsin State Trunk Highway 38 ( Howell Avenue locally ) running underneath.

Fannie Mae headquarters at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue ( Washington, D. C .) | Wisconsin Avenue, NW in Washington, D. C.

The interior of Room 19, Central House Hotel located at 1005 Wisconsin Avenue in Boscobel, Wisconsin, kept in the style it was in September 1898 when founders of the Gideons met here

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

A farm near Racine, Wisconsin, is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas.

" As part of a plea agreement, Capp pleaded guilty to the charge of " attempted adultery " ( adultery was, and as of 2011 still is a felony in Wisconsin ) and the other charges were dropped.

Magnetic ( compass ) north and geographic ( true ) north are only exactly the same for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico .< ref > But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass " changing " across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.

Generally this is in a very small detail, such as the number of leaves on the ear of corn on the recent US Wisconsin state quarter: File: 2004 WI Proof. png.

On January 27, 2009, in a lawsuit involving an accidental injury sustained during a cheerleading practice, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that cheerleading is a full-contact sport in that state.

Wisconsin is the leading producer of cranberries, with over half of U. S. production.

In the United States, it is a criminal offense for a person to be drunk while driving a motorized vehicle, except in Wisconsin, where it is only a misdemeanor for the first offense.

It is preserved at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

In 2011, Nicholas V. Cozzi, of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, concluded that INMT, an enzyme that may be associated with the biosynthesis of DMT and endogenous hallucinogens, is present in the human pineal gland, retinal ganglion neurons, spinal cord, and central nervous tissues.

More recently, Charles Wedemeyer of the University of Wisconsin – Madison is considered significant in promoting methods other than the postal service to deliver distance education in America.

* Debra Spark's 2009 Novel, Good for the Jews is a modern day retelling of Esther set in Madison, Wisconsin.

* 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.

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Lake Michigan is bounded, from west to east, by the U. S. states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan.

* 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U. S. state.

The southern Wisconsin city of Racine is known for its Danish kringle.

Wisconsin is " America's Dairyland ," and is home to numerous frozen custard stands, particularly around Milwaukee and along the Lake Michigan corridor, as well as many cheesemakers, ranging from artisans who hand-craft their product from the milk of their own dairy herds to large factories.

Wisconsin is also well known for summer sausage and brats.

* 1912 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.

But in some regions, especially Wisconsin, brandy is substituted for whiskey ( sometimes called a Brandy Old Fashioned ).

One of the founders of this area of brain research is Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Paavo Nurmi Marathon, held annually since 1969, is the oldest marathon in Wisconsin and the second-oldest in the American Midwest.