Cultural
Map of Wisconsin
A
Cartographic Portrait of the State
David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher,
Joshua Hane
"An open invitation to stop
along the way and get acquainted with the past and present."
—Margaret Beattie Bogue, author of Around
the Shores of Lake Michigan
This extraordinary map, the first of its kind created for
any state, is a wonderful way to discover the history, culture,
land, and people of Wisconsin. Nearly 1500 points of interest
are located on the map, including the sites of Laura Ingalls
Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods near Pepin, the
World's Largest Fish Fry at Port Washington, John Muir's boyhood
farm near Montello, the Honor the Earth Pow Wow at Lac Court
Oreilles, the nation's first kindergarten in Watertown, Hoard's
Dairy Shrine in Fort Atkinson, the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee,
the great Peshtigo Fire, the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame, and
hundreds of other fascinating places.
The front of
the map shows the entire state—topography, roads, waterways,
historic sites and historical markers, archaeological areas,
physical features and landscapes of cultural significance, notable
architecture, areas of ethnic and religious importance, historic
communities, festivals and fairs, lighthouses, museums and tours,
colleges, parks and recreational trails, rustic roads, and places
with celebrated literary, musical, and artistic connections.
The back shows many more sites of interest on smaller cultural
maps of sixteen cities. All the maps incorporate a shaded relief
background that displays Wisconsin's rich variation in land forms,
making it possible to see how local cultures are inextricably
linked to regional landscapes. Six small thematic maps emphasize
this linkage and show historical changes in vegetation, population
patterns, and local economies.
Inset Maps
for 16 Cities:
Appleton,
Eau Claire, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Janesville/Beloit, Kenosha/Racine,
La Crosse, Madison, Manitowoc, Milwaukee county including Waukesha,
downtown Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Sheboygan, Stevens Point, Superior,
Wausau
6 Theme
Maps:
Native
American Cultures from Pre-contact to the Present, Patterns of
Euro-American Settlement, Regions of Euro-American Culture, Economic
Regions, Physical Geography and Glacial Processes, Vegetation
in the 19th Century & late 20th Century
Site Key:
Included
with the map is a 16-page booklet with a key to the numbered
symbols on the map.
David Woodward is the Arthur H. Robinson
Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
and editor of the History of Cartography project. Robert Ostergren is professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
and author of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic
Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle
West, 1835–1915. Onno Brouwer is associate director
of the Cartographic Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Steven Hoelscher is assistant professor of geography at
Louisiana State University and a former research associate in
the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Josh Hane is project assistant at the Cartographic Laboratory
of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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November 1996
A large map of Wisconsin; several smaller focus maps on reverse
side of map; plus colorful landscapes in margins and 16 pp. booklet
with site key to the numbered symbols on the map.
42" x 45" when unfolded
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