3:30 my ancestor owned the nation's largest grain farm in what's now known as Granville. The old stone cabin is still there, but the land is now a golf course on Good Hope Road
Thank you for this. As a born and raised there. (Now living in Oklahoma.) I miss this place a lot. Majority of my Family lives in Wausau. Born in Port Edward's. This series makes me feel good to be part of this great state. ❤
Like a large amount of the population here my great great grandparents arrived in Milwaukee from Germany(Prussia at the time) in the late 1800s and we have never left the region since. And I never plan on it! lol Cant wait for part 3. This is becoming one of my favorite channels. The history of Wisconsin and the Midwest in general is very underrated
@@Jonsered0317 Thats awesome. Some of my family came from a part of Brandenburg that is also Poland today. It seems a great deal of people came out of the north east
Not exactly sure when mine came due to loss of records from Europe however we belive it was late 1800's or early 1900's. What we do know is they originated from Munich and the Bohemian region. German was fluently spoken until my great grandparents, it died with my grandparents due to the WW2 treatment of Germans. My grandpa however was through and through American, he took arms against the Nazi's, was in the 20th armored division and liberated Dachau. Wisconsins Germans largely ignored Hitlers call to the homeland and instead fought against him. We truly live in a history rich and proud region. I'll never leave.
@@onlybassfishing1813 Yeah a lot of people don't realize just how different Europes borders where back then and through most of the time Germans came here Germany as we know it didn't even exist yet. Its kind of a shame what WW1 did for German culture in the states but, some definitely still exists and it seems like there is a bit of a revival of it. I've been seeing a lot of Alpine traditions coming into Wisconsin like Krampusnacht.
I love these videos! I currently live in Oklahoma with my wife and kids. I try to tell these stories about Wisconsin and these videos are perfect! I grew up in Kenosha , lived in ashwaubenon, Neenah, Menasha, and Howard. I can’t wait for the episodes where you will explore SE Wisconsin. Excellent job!!
My understanding about the Peshtigo fire was that it was one of the driest times ever. Massive drought in the area. You also had the great Chicago fire the same day. Most of Northeast Wisconsins forest have been replanted with millions of pine trees.
My great grandmother's brother died in the Peshtigo fire when he was 10 years old. Unfortunately all of her family's records were destroyed in the Peshtigo fire.
The Peshtigo fire was far more deadly than the Chicago fire. But, the F.I.B's wanted the attention on them, so the Chicago fire received more publicity by making up a story about a cow kicking over a lantern. (F.I.B's)
There is no real known reason for the Peshtigo fire, only speculation. But with the sheer areas that were on fire that night between Michigan's U.P. all the way down though Illinois, one theory ( that I find the most plausible ) is that there was a brief meteor shower that was undetected that ignited the dry forests. But, Nobody knows for sure.
Liking this series. Im from Waupaca, but have lived all over the state (Appelton, Milwaukee, Madison). Even a friend of mine from Bavaria that comes to visit is following.
This doesn’t have nearly as many views as a video this quality deserves. I’d love to see a future video that focuses on how the various waterways influenced the development of the state, it’s kinda hinted at but never directly addressed.
Cedar Grove Resident here. Your video is well done and informative. Thank you for remembering the Phoenix disaster. It seems like the only shipwreck story I see talked about is the Chirstmas tree ship.
Cedarburg is one of my favorite places to walk at night. Love to see the footage of it. You must live in Wisconsin I imagine? Or fell in love during a trip?
My great great grandparents came over here from modern Germany and Poland at the end of the 19th century. Wisconsin in general and my own place of birth, the Fox valley have a large percentage of german immigrants during the later 1800's
I’m a 33 year upper Michigan transplant in Green Bay. Very interesting video series. Maybe a video series of Upper Michigan? The UP should’ve been part of Wisconsin. I can show you what’s left of mess/feeding log houses for 1800 logging industry. Sadly, they are being reclaimed by the forest.
In between Lake Mills and Waterloo there's a small cemetery where my ancestors who came to Wisconsin from Germany (Prussia) in 1856 are buried. Crazy how over 160 years later, I still live 8 miles from where they settled. What's even crazier is that my great uncle still owned the original plot of land my great great great great grandpa purchased up until the 1970s. Then chunks were sold off until he died in the early 2000s, and now we own none of it. If anyone is familiar with Lake Mills, we used to own the land from the corner where McDonald's is, all the way down Tyranena Park Rd to the intersection of hwy A, and back north across the interstate. It was a huge rectangle of land. The interstate cut through the bottom part of it. We'd be millionaires right now if we still had it and sold it. Funny how things work out...
Correct, first but not necessarily the oldest, as they shut down and then rebooted according to my reading, giving it fewer birthdays than Beloit. A bit of a philosophical question.
Ok, as a Wisconsinite, I am surprised no one has told me all this, like the Peshtigo Fire beaing deadlier than the Chicago Fire, and how "One Wisconsin regiment was worth 4 normal regiments" Like wtf how is Wisconsin this cool
There was some interpretive aspect to it that made me put Beloit as the oldest [existing] college. If memory serves it was that Carroll was founded first, but then shut down and had a reboot, resetting its birthday.
My family logged the North Woods before Wisconsin was a state. They farmed the land and were wounded in the Civil War after it became one. I travel this majestic beauty as a part of my job now. My kids will have kids here because I’ve traveled this country, countries around the world, and I KNOW this is blessed ground. edit: My family survived the Peshtigo fire by hiding in their drinking well. 1.2 million acres of Christmas trees going up at once, terrifying.
These are great videos! However, your narrative of the state’s founding does not acknowledge the fact that all the land developers and lumber barons were profiting off of stealing land and wealth from Indigenous Americans, such as the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Hochunk communities. The founding of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were funded by using treaties and land frauds to reappropriate Tribal assets. Otherwise, they’d relocate Native Peoples under forced march to the Indian Territory (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma). This is how our states were “opened” for settlement: genocide, mass deportation, and stolen land.
@ you bet! Here are a few contextual books describing what I’m talking about: Seeing Red - Michael John Witgen The Middle Ground - Richard White Born of Lakes and Plains - Anne Hyde I really appreciate your gracious response! Very impressed by your content and the way you communicate your content.
"Towering", 'colossal" white pine? Give me a break. Compared to the Douglas Fir, blue spruce, western red cedar of the Pacific Coast the white pine is a runt. Recently a game warden near Coos Bay, Oregon, discovered a Doug Fir 425 feet high with a diameter that rivaled the Redwood. The near unbearable life-threatening winters in Wisconsin from November to April stunt growth, whereas the mild, moist climate west of the Cascades has created monsters. Perspective, young man, perspective.
Having been born and raised in Wisconsin for 30years, there's nowhere I'd rather live.
Just moved here from Texas. Devil's Lake in my profile pic. This place is AMAZING.
Also trying to find my way there from Texas
Funny yall say that, thats probably the only other state I'd consider moving to 😂
Oh I do love Texas and would also not mind staying for life, but there's something about Wisconsin just pulling me to move there
Idk I think my mom might have the right idea only coming back in the summer. 30 years and I'm still not cut out for these winters.
3:30 my ancestor owned the nation's largest grain farm in what's now known as Granville. The old stone cabin is still there, but the land is now a golf course on Good Hope Road
omg thats where the name came from! I was raised in Brown Deer which used to be named Granville and I was always so confused why it was called that
I love Wisconsin 😊😊
Insane production. props to you for traveling around and gathering all this footage.
Absolutely beautiful!. Thank you so much. I am a Milwaukee native.
Thank you, I just love that city!
Beautifully done...thank you for the videos
What a beautiful pictorial!
Your drone work is phenomenal! Keep it up.
Well done. I am a Wisconsin native and your films are great. Thank you so much for producing them.
4:50 cream city brick is beautiful. It takes on so many different colors
Very cool learning about the places in Wisconsin and its historic sites we go past and have no idea about.
Lots of shots of where I live in cedarburg! Awesome job!
Thank you for this. As a born and raised there. (Now living in Oklahoma.) I miss this place a lot. Majority of my Family lives in Wausau. Born in Port Edward's. This series makes me feel good to be part of this great state. ❤
I love all the old sayings you mention in these videos. I’m gonna have to tell my kids about the giant blue ox
I love Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a very special place
There is a Lime Kiln installation on the northeast side of Winnebago, at High Cliff State Park. Pretty cool
Yes, we’ve been there, it is cool!
Like a large amount of the population here my great great grandparents arrived in Milwaukee from Germany(Prussia at the time) in the late 1800s and we have never left the region since. And I never plan on it! lol Cant wait for part 3. This is becoming one of my favorite channels. The history of Wisconsin and the Midwest in general is very underrated
Same! Pomerania, which is now western Poland. Our roots run deep in Wisconsin.
@@Jonsered0317 Thats awesome. Some of my family came from a part of Brandenburg that is also Poland today. It seems a great deal of people came out of the north east
mine came after prussia collapse
Not exactly sure when mine came due to loss of records from Europe however we belive it was late 1800's or early 1900's. What we do know is they originated from Munich and the Bohemian region. German was fluently spoken until my great grandparents, it died with my grandparents due to the WW2 treatment of Germans. My grandpa however was through and through American, he took arms against the Nazi's, was in the 20th armored division and liberated Dachau. Wisconsins Germans largely ignored Hitlers call to the homeland and instead fought against him. We truly live in a history rich and proud region. I'll never leave.
@@onlybassfishing1813 Yeah a lot of people don't realize just how different Europes borders where back then and through most of the time Germans came here Germany as we know it didn't even exist yet. Its kind of a shame what WW1 did for German culture in the states but, some definitely still exists and it seems like there is a bit of a revival of it. I've been seeing a lot of Alpine traditions coming into Wisconsin like Krampusnacht.
It’s crazy the Wisconsin could really be its own individual country and be self sufficient
I love these videos! I currently live in Oklahoma with my wife and kids. I try to tell these stories about Wisconsin and these videos are perfect! I grew up in Kenosha , lived in ashwaubenon, Neenah, Menasha, and Howard. I can’t wait for the episodes where you will explore SE Wisconsin. Excellent job!!
My understanding about the Peshtigo fire was that it was one of the driest times ever. Massive drought in the area. You also had the great Chicago fire the same day. Most of Northeast Wisconsins forest have been replanted with millions of pine trees.
My great grandmother's brother died in the Peshtigo fire when he was 10 years old. Unfortunately all of her family's records were destroyed in the Peshtigo fire.
The Peshtigo fire was far more deadly than the Chicago fire. But, the F.I.B's wanted the attention on them, so the Chicago fire received more publicity by making up a story about a cow kicking over a lantern. (F.I.B's)
There is no real known reason for the Peshtigo fire, only speculation. But with the sheer areas that were on fire that night between Michigan's U.P. all the way down though Illinois, one theory ( that I find the most plausible ) is that there was a brief meteor shower that was undetected that ignited the dry forests. But, Nobody knows for sure.
Liking this series. Im from Waupaca, but have lived all over the state (Appelton, Milwaukee, Madison). Even a friend of mine from Bavaria that comes to visit is following.
This is a great 2 part video. I have a big Wisconsin family that extended from Italy Ireland and France.
I've been waiting months for the part 2! Definitely watching when I get home!
Nice! Hope you enjoy
This doesn’t have nearly as many views as a video this quality deserves. I’d love to see a future video that focuses on how the various waterways influenced the development of the state, it’s kinda hinted at but never directly addressed.
Thanks, and great suggestion
Beautiful video you are doing it can't wait for part 3
Thank you!
Yay! Nice work on this one! Obviously the next video should be about the House on the Rock or Frank Lloyd Wright.
Great content, thank you!
Cedar Grove Resident here. Your video is well done and informative. Thank you for remembering the Phoenix disaster. It seems like the only shipwreck story I see talked about is the Chirstmas tree ship.
Bro, I'm from Cedar Grove also.
And I'm just down the road a piece by Belgium.@@tastywavn
Cedarburg is one of my favorite places to walk at night. Love to see the footage of it. You must live in Wisconsin I imagine? Or fell in love during a trip?
Yes, I’m a native of WI.
My great great grandparents came over here from modern Germany and Poland at the end of the 19th century. Wisconsin in general and my own place of birth, the Fox valley have a large percentage of german immigrants during the later 1800's
I’m a 33 year upper Michigan transplant in Green Bay. Very interesting video series. Maybe a video series of Upper Michigan? The UP should’ve been part of Wisconsin. I can show you what’s left of mess/feeding log houses for 1800 logging industry. Sadly, they are being reclaimed by the forest.
I've been thinking about doing some combined Upper and Lower Michigan history next!
Another great video! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Best part was the drone footage run in reverse for that one scene.
Shhhhhhhh, you don’t notice…
Very cool thank you!
I used to ride my bike to heg park as a kid.
My grandparents and l think great grandparents lived in Stevens Point my dad and his siblings were born there.
WISCO❤
this is seriously something that you could get streaming services to buy. it's very well made. how many people are on this team?
Wow thanks so much! It’s just one.
In between Lake Mills and Waterloo there's a small cemetery where my ancestors who came to Wisconsin from Germany (Prussia) in 1856 are buried. Crazy how over 160 years later, I still live 8 miles from where they settled. What's even crazier is that my great uncle still owned the original plot of land my great great great great grandpa purchased up until the 1970s. Then chunks were sold off until he died in the early 2000s, and now we own none of it. If anyone is familiar with Lake Mills, we used to own the land from the corner where McDonald's is, all the way down Tyranena Park Rd to the intersection of hwy A, and back north across the interstate. It was a huge rectangle of land. The interstate cut through the bottom part of it. We'd be millionaires right now if we still had it and sold it. Funny how things work out...
Great video from a 'sconnie native.
i live in Ixonia off of Marietta Ave
My grandparents and there families came over from Germany.
Wisco for the win
Carroll was the first college in Wisconsin. 1846. They’re the Pioneers for godsake.
Correct, first but not necessarily the oldest, as they shut down and then rebooted according to my reading, giving it fewer birthdays than Beloit. A bit of a philosophical question.
Lime Kiln Park is in Grafton, not Cedarburg...
Thank you for the correction!
@@placesofthepast Groovy... Good show... Keep'm coming
Born and raised in La Crosse. The ONLY downside of Wisconsin is you have Illinois to the south.
I live in northern Wisconsin and every summer they're like a swarm of insects traveling north. it's like being a prisoner in your own town.
Fun fact. Chicago and Rockford were originally part of Wisconsin.
As a cheese person I appreciate this video👍
Ok, as a Wisconsinite, I am surprised no one has told me all this, like the Peshtigo Fire beaing deadlier than the Chicago Fire, and how "One Wisconsin regiment was worth 4 normal regiments"
Like wtf how is Wisconsin this cool
when talking about the Civil War how do you not talk about Ripon?
All of us Wisconsinites feel the same way about Illinois. It would be nice to keep them in their own state.
Filmed in a speeding car not stopping for red lights or stop signs…
“And here we see Racine Wisconsin, GO GO GO”
How do I get that price $1.25 an acre? LOL! Thanks for the video
Isn’t Carroll university the first college of Wisconsin? Founded in 1846?
There was some interpretive aspect to it that made me put Beloit as the oldest [existing] college. If memory serves it was that Carroll was founded first, but then shut down and had a reboot, resetting its birthday.
My great-grandfather's family owned Cream City Brewery but lost it during the depression to a crooked lawyer.
cap
Born and raised in Racine
My wife’s family settled in Ashton in 1836 before Wisconsin was a state.
My family logged the North Woods before Wisconsin was a state. They farmed the land and were wounded in the Civil War after it became one. I travel this majestic beauty as a part of my job now. My kids will have kids here because I’ve traveled this country, countries around the world, and I KNOW this is blessed ground.
edit: My family survived the Peshtigo fire by hiding in their drinking well. 1.2 million acres of Christmas trees going up at once, terrifying.
ixonia right down the road
A number of famous American geologists came out of Beloit College.
For some reason I never knew camp Randall was named after a governor 🤷
milwaukee`s beer breweries
I always thought UW was founded first I guess not 🤷
Cedar Grove people start flooding the comment section.
Carroll College was the first.
Also it had a prob.em with religious Tyra nny like the pilgrims the palatinates
I found this interesting but the background music is really unnecessary
do my state next! maryland. Ill settle for ohio tho.
Maybe sometime!
@@placesofthepast regardless, this was a great video series on Wisconsin! I have never been and didn't realize the allure.
These are great videos! However, your narrative of the state’s founding does not acknowledge the fact that all the land developers and lumber barons were profiting off of stealing land and wealth from Indigenous Americans, such as the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Hochunk communities. The founding of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were funded by using treaties and land frauds to reappropriate Tribal assets. Otherwise, they’d relocate Native Peoples under forced march to the Indian Territory (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma). This is how our states were “opened” for settlement: genocide, mass deportation, and stolen land.
Thank you for additional information! Any recommended sources for someone wanting to learn more about this aspect of history?
@ you bet! Here are a few contextual books describing what I’m talking about:
Seeing Red - Michael John Witgen
The Middle Ground - Richard White
Born of Lakes and Plains - Anne Hyde
I really appreciate your gracious response! Very impressed by your content and the way you communicate your content.
Covid scare of 2019😅😅😅
Redgranite Wisconsin here!! The only thing that sucks here is the bored police officers of waushara county! Creating criminals where there isn't any
What an obnoxios voice.
"Towering", 'colossal" white pine? Give me a break. Compared to the Douglas Fir, blue spruce, western red cedar of the Pacific Coast the white pine is a runt. Recently a game warden near Coos Bay, Oregon, discovered a Doug Fir 425 feet high with a diameter that rivaled the Redwood. The near unbearable life-threatening winters in Wisconsin from November to April stunt growth, whereas the mild, moist climate west of the Cascades has created monsters. Perspective, young man, perspective.
Perspective, exactly. The old trees of WI were huge compared to now - but yes, not compared to the tallest species on the planet.
This is the worst video I’ve seen in a long time 👎
You made the worst comment I have seen in a long time.
Well, you are a miserable person. Maybe you should go look at the teenagers making duck faces in a mirror. That might be more your speed