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POINT OF DISCOVERY ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI IS THE MOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN RIVER. THIS IS THE POINT WHERE ON JUNE 17, 1673, PERE MARQUETTE AND LOUIS JOLIET IN TWO SMALL CANOES ENTERED...
MABEL WANDA RAIMEY 1898-1986 Mabel Raimey was the first African-American woman attorney in Wisconsin and the first to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1918). She attended...
FATHER MARQUETTE'S CAMP - 1674 Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet dis-covered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this...