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Wisconsin

The Badger or Cheese State

With four full seasons, Wisconsin provides an array of gorgeous natural beauty, a large assortment of lakes and rivers, forests and rolling hills that all offer something different through each season. A state rich in historic and cultural attractions, water sports, ice-boating, fishing, skiing, hunting and with 95 state parks Wisconsin has plenty to keep the resident and visitor entertained.

Important farm products produced by the state of Wisconsin are peas, beans, beets, corn, potatoes, oats, hay and cranberries plus, Wisconsin is a leader in milk and cheese production. The major industrial products of the state are automobiles, machinery, furniture, paper (ranked 2nd among 47 paper producing states), beer and processed foods. Wisconsin's mines produce copper, iron ore, lead and zinc.

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Quick Facts

Population: 5,556,506 as of 2006
Land Area: 54,310 sq mi. (140,673 sq km)
Per Capita Personal Income: $36,047 as of 2007
Capital: Madison

Professional Sports Teams


Football: Green Bay Packers
Football (AFL): Milwaukee Mustangs

Basketball: Milwaukee Bucks

Baseball: Milwaukee Brewers
That the name, the Badger State, appears to have arisen from the early lead miners who worked at the Illinois Galena lead mines in the 1830s? However, "badger" arose not from the burrowing in the lead mines but because those from Wisconsin who worked the mines did not live in houses. They lived in caves in the hillside that looked like badger burrows. They earned the nickname at the mines and took it back on their return to Wisconsin. Interestingly, Wisconsin adopted the badger as the official state animal in 1957. Wisconsin is predominantly a dairy state producing 40% of the country's cheese and 20% of its butter - not surprisingly, then, the state is sometimes nicknamed the Dairy State, America's Dairyland or the Cheese State.

That Wisconsin's 7,446 streams and rivers stretch 26,767 miles? Placed end to end that is more than enough to circle the globe at the equator.

That the House on the Rock was designed and built in the early 1940s? It is considered an architectural marvel and is perched on a 60-foot chimney of rock. The 14-room house is now a complex of rooms, streets, buildings and gardens covering over 200 acres. The Infinity Room contains 3,264 windows.

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