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  • From an Upstairs Reading Room to a Carnegie Landmark: The Story of Rhinelander’s Public Library

    From an Upstairs Reading Room to a Carnegie Landmark: The Story of Rhinelander’s Public Library
    2025/12/03
    Local libraries have always been more than buildings with books, they’re the beating heart of a community. They preserve our stories, protect our history, and give every generation a place to learn, gather, and grow.
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    6 分
  • The killing of a Vilas County Sheriff, and the 12 Apostles of Rhinelander

    The killing of a Vilas County Sheriff, and the 12 Apostles of Rhinelander
    2025/11/05
    The Northwoods of Wisconsin, with its rough logging boom towns and frontier justice, saw its own share of gun smoke and violence in the early 1900s.
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    5 分
  • History of the Wolf River Apple

    History of the Wolf River Apple
    2025/10/01
    In Wisconsin’s story, where tall pines once fed the logging booms, the rivers also carried life from forest to farm. Flowing from its headwaters in Forest County, the Wolf River connects the Northwood’s to central Wisconsin, and gave rise to more than timber, it gave us the Wolf River Apple, a variety that looms larger than the rest, quite literally.
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    3 分
  • The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings

    The "Spymaster of Los Angeles" and his northern Wisconsin beginnings
    2025/09/10
    From the iron hills of Hurley, Wisconsin, came a man who waged war not with weapons, but with secrets. Leon Lawrence Lewis, born in Hurley in 1888 to German Jewish immigrants, would one day be called the “spymaster of Los Angeles.”
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    3 分
  • Rhinelander’s Wartime Map Paper

    Rhinelander’s Wartime Map Paper
    2025/08/13
    Rhinelander Paper Company, quietly played a vital role in getting our troops the tools they needed to fight and win
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    3 分
  • Rhinelander’s Boom Lake Boat Races

    Rhinelander’s Boom Lake Boat Races
    2025/07/02
    There was a time when Boom Lake in Rhinelander wasn’t just a quiet, scenic waterway, it was a Northwoods’ racetrack.
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    4 分
  • Soda Pop and Steel Bars: The Curious History of Tourist Bears in the Northwoods

    Soda Pop and Steel Bars: The Curious History of Tourist Bears in the Northwoods
    2025/06/04
    It wasn’t all that long ago that seeing a bear in Northern Wisconsin wasn’t just a wilderness encounter. It was a roadside attraction.
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    4 分
  • A Northwoods Love Story: The Hodag Wedding

    A Northwoods Love Story: The Hodag Wedding
    2025/05/07
    What began as a whimsical marketing campaign by the Rhinelander Chamber of Commerce transformed into a memorable community celebration of local culture.
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    4 分