From the Wikipedia entry on Eagle River:

Eagle River is a city in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,443 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat ofVilas County. The city is known for being a popular “Northwoods” vacation town. Many citizens from nearby Chicago, Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Madison vacation here.

• Eagle River is nicknamed the “Snowmobile Capital of the World” because the World Championship Snowmobile Derby is held at an ice oval on the north side of the city.
• The Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame is at the Eagle River Stadium in Eagle River.
• Common activities include Ice Fishing, Swimming, Hunting, and Snowmobiling.
• In recent years Eagle River has been the host of the Labatt Blue USA hockey pond hockey championship games.

Eagle River is home to many resorts because of its beauty. Many bald eagles are actually sighted here, thus giving the name “Eagle” River.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Rhinelander:

The area that eventually became the city of Rhinelander was originally called Pelican Rapids by early settlers for the stretch of rapids just above the convergence of the Wisconsin and Pelican Rivers.

Around 1870, Anderson W. Brown of Stevens Point and Anson P. Vaughntraveled up the Wisconsin River in order to cruise timber for Brown’s father, E. D. Brown. Upon arriving at the meeting point of the Wisconsin and Pelican Rivers at the site of John Curran‘s trading post, and seeing the high banks along the rapids and the excellent pine stands, Anderson Brown envisioned a mill town with a lumber mill powered by the waters of the Wisconsin River. Brown’s vision would not come to fruition for some years, however after subsequent expeditions with others including his brother and Rhinelander’s first mayor,Webster Brown, the brothers managed to convince their father and uncle to purchase the land from the federal government and build a town.

In its charter, the city was named Rhinelander after Frederic W. Rhinelander of New York, who was president of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Road at the time. This was part of a bid by the Brown brothers to induce the railroad to extend a spur to the location to further their lumbering business. Ultimately, after over ten years of negotiations, the Brown family agreed to convey half their land holdings in the area to the railroad in exchange for a rail line to their future city. In 1882, the railroad line from present-day Monico to Rhinelander was completed, jump starting the development of Rhinelander as the commercial hub of the region.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Marinette:

Marinette was first settled by a small Algonquin tribe, then became a French fur trading post in the 19th century. In the late 19th century it experienced a “lumber boom” as a result of its location along the Menominee River and next to Green Bay. Lumbering trailed off at the turn of the 20th century, but the town has continued to take advantage of its position along those bodies of water with major paper mills, and other plants such as Marinette Marine, a shipyard owned by the Italian firm, Fincantieri, Ansul/Tyco, a manufacturer of fire protection systems, Thyssen Krupp Waupaca Foundry, a leading competitor in agricultural and automotive manufacturing, and Silvan Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of pressure vessels and part of the Samuel Steel Pressure Vessel Group.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Crandon:

Samuel Shaw, an entrepreneur and capitalist, bought property in the area of Forest County in the 1880s, formerly Oconto County. With the aide of Major Frank P. Crandon, tax commissioner with the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, he successfully lobbied the Wisconsin Legislature for the creation of Forest County, which was established in 1887. Because of his help, Frank Crandon became the namesake for the county seat. Rail service arrived shortly thereafter in the region via the Soo Line Railroad, but a spur linedid not directly reach the town until the turn of the century.

The lumber industry defined the early growth of the city. In 1891, Page and Landeck Lumber Company purchased a tract of hardwood timberlands near Crandon, and by 1902, the company built a huge sawmill (later named the Keith & Hiles Lumber Mill) near Clear Lake on Crandon’s north side. The population of Crandon grew from 800 to more than 2,400 in just a few years. With the rail line’s presence, settlers and loggers from Kentucky were recruited for the bustling timber industry of northern Wisconsin. The company’s sawmill eventually was moved to Crandon from Glasgow, Kentucky. Modern culture lore reflects the early “Kentuck” ancestors. The city was officially incorporated as Crandon in 1909 after construction of the county courthouse began, and much of the town’s building stock was constructed during this time. Though timber has diminished as a prominent industry in the north-central United States, logging companies still operate in the nearby Nicolet National Forest.

From the 1980s to 2003, Crandon was the center of an environmental debate to construct a mining operation at the proposed Crandon mine, a rich copper deposit discovered by the Exxon Coal and Minerals Company. The heated discussion led to a Wisconsin Legislature mining moratorium act in 1998. Eventually, the proposed company and mine site lands were purchased by the opposed Mole Lake SakaogonChippewa and Forest County Potawatomi tribes, whose reservations sat near the site. The project was withdrawn in October 2003.

On October 7, 2007, Crandon drew the attention of national and world media when Tyler Peterson, an employee of the Forest County Sheriff’s Department and a part-time officer for the Crandon Police Department, shot seven people, wounding one and killing six in the town. They ranged in age from 14 to 20.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Florence:

Florence is an unincorporated census-designated place in and the county seat of Florence County, Wisconsin, United States. Florence is located in northern Florence County, in the town of Florence. Florence has a post office with ZIP code 54121. The community was named a census-designated place in 2010. As of the 2010 census, its population was 592.

Florence is situated in the Northern Highland region of Wisconsin near the Michigan border. Fisher Lake is located to the south of the community, and Fisher Creek runs to its east. The community of Commonwealth is 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Florence. The nearest city to Florence is Iron Mountain, which is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) to the southeast; Florence County has no incorporated communities. U.S. Route 2 and U.S. Route 141 run through the community, and Wisconsin Highway 70 and Wisconsin Highway 101 terminate in western Florence; County Highway N also serves the community.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Manistique:

Manistique is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,583. It is thecounty seat of Schoolcraft County and the only incorporated community in the county. The city lies on the north shore of Lake Michigan, at the southwest corner of Manistique Township, but is politically autonomous. Manistique was founded where the Manistique River flows into Lake Michigan, forming somewhat of a natural harbor, which has since been improved with breakwaters, dredging, and alighthouse. The river also provides water for a paper mill, Manistique Papers, which forms a large portion of the local economy. The city’s largest employer is Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital. The economy also depends heavily on tourism. The city is also the first setting of the musical The Christmas Schooner.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Rogers City:

Rogers City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,322. It is the county seat of Presque Isle County. The city is adjacent to Rogers Township, but is politically independent.

Rogers City is located on Lake Huron and is home to two salmon fishing tournaments. The world’s largest open pit limestone quarry, thePort of Calcite, is located within the city limits and is one of the largest shipping ports on the Great Lakes.

The freighter, SS Carl D. Bradley, home port at Rogers City, sank in Lake Michigan on November 18, 1958. There were two survivors while 33 lost their lives. 26 of the deceased were from Rogers City, with the others from nearby towns. 50th anniversary memorial activities took place in 2008.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Ontonagon:

The village is located within Ontonagon Township, at the mouth of the Ontonagon River on Lake Superior. Industry was centered on the Smurfit-Stone Container production facility at the river mouth until the plant closed in 2010.

Ontonagon is located on the far western edge of the Eastern Time Zone, in the summer the sun sets over Lake Superior at 10pm local time with dusk lasting until almost 11pm. By contrast in the winter the sun does not rise until just before 9am and it is still pitch black at 8am.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Atlanta:

Atlanta is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Michigan, along the 45th parallel. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes and does not have any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 757 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Montmorency County.

The community is centered on the junction between M-32 and M-33 in the east-central portion of Briley Township. East of Atlanta, M-32 and M-33 run concurrently for about six miles. The CDP also includes a small portion of Avery Townshipeast of Atlanta and south of the Thunder Bay River. The Atlanta post office opened under the name Big Rock on March 24, 1882; the name was changed to Atlanta on October 2, 1882.

The Sno*Drift rally racing event is held in Atlanta annually. The event is currently the first Rally America National Rally Championship event of the season.

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From the Wikipedia entry on Menominee:

Menominee gets its name from a regional Native American tribe known as the Menominee, which roughly translates into “Wild Rice”. The area was originally the home of the Menominee Indian Tribe. They now have a reservation along the Wolf River in North Central Wisconsin.

Menominee gained prominence as a lumber town. In its heyday Menominee produced more lumber than any other city in America. During this time and shortly after, Menominee boasted an opera house. the opera house is now being restored. In the 1910s a cycle car, the “Dudly Bug“, was manufactured in Menominee. In the waning years of lumber production, local business interests, interested in diversifying Menominee’s manufacturing base, attracted to Menominee inventor Marshall Burns Lloyd and his Minneapolis company Lloyd Manufacturing — a manufacturer of wicker baby buggies. In 1917 Lloyd invented an automated process for weaving a man-made wicker and the Lloyd Loom was born — a process still in use today. Today, Menominee relies on manufacturing (paper products, wicker lawn furniture, auto supplies, tourism, etc.) for its economic well-being.

The Menominee Maroons won the state championship in its division for basketball in 1967 and football in 1998, 2006 and 2007.In the 2006 season the Maroons finished unbeaten and only allowed 38 points scored against them but their offense scored 513 point in that entire season . They beat the former Wisconsin and Minnesota Division One state champions. Menominee shares a historic football rivalry with neighbor Marinette, Wisconsin. The two were noted as hosting the oldest interstate high school rivalry in the country and it is now recognized as the third longest rivalry.

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