Let’s have a little fun, shall we? Racine has a long history of inventing and improving on the gadgets the rest of the world now uses. But we thought it might be fun to test some of your knowledge of Invention City history. Which one of these gadgets was NOT invented (or improved upon) in […]
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Racine Remembers: The 1888 Bohemian Schoolhouse
Written by: Dick Ammann Coming to Racine County because of the area’s agricultural potential, the Bohemians (from an area now know as the Czech Republic) mostly settled between Five Mile and Seven Mile Roads. As time passed, the group felt the need to build churches, meeting halls and schools to keep their heritage alive. The […]
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Racine Remembers: The Case Company
Innovative Beginnings The foundations of the Case Corporation were laid when Jerome I. Case relocated in 1842 from Oswego County, in western New York State, to Rochester in Wisconsin Territory. Wisconsin would not become a state for another six years. He selected Rochester because it had been heralded as the center of new and wonderful wheat country. At the […]
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Racine Remembers: Roller Polo
Roller Polo: A Sport of Speed and Skill Written by Dr. Richard Minton, edited by Karen Braun © 2004 Racine Heritage Museum A hockey-style game played on roller skates, Roller Polo was a part of Racine’s sporting profile from the early 1880s into the 1930s. Roller rinks scheduled it, manufacturers sponsored it and the players […]
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Racine Remembers: Hometown Railroads
Racine’s Hometown Railroad 1855 – 2005 Written by Keith Kohlman © 2005 Racine Heritage Museum By May of 1855 the Racine, Janesville & Mississippi Railroad had laid a track from the harbor in Racine to a point as far west as today’s location of the intersection of 21st Street and Green Bay Road. That same […]
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Racine Remembers: Ideas Sought For Storytelling Event
I’ve been thinking about this idea for a while now… Racine Remembers. YES… I’ve talked about it social events and now I’m ready to hear your thoughts. I think Racine’s manufacturing legacy is cool. And we have so many companies that continue to be at the forefront of their markets. Then we have the entrepreneurs […]
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Racine Remembers: Reform Tradition
Important discoveries don’t always come down the main highway. Such is the case with the discovery of the story of three generations of Racine women: Amy Davis Winship, Elizabeth Davis Wooster, and Marguerite Davis. Their story, and their connection to the current of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century reform movements emerged out of research into the scrapbook and […]
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Racine Remembers: Joshua Glover Found Freedom
Below is a section of script featuring the Joshua Glover story from RHM’s exhibit This Train is Bound for Glory.  The Glover story is but one story highlighted in the exhibit – and can be best introduced using the quote below from Finding Freedom. “What took place following [Joshua Glover’s and his master’s] association of […]
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Racine Remembers: Joshua Glover, Escaping Slavery Through Racine
Below is a section of script featuring the Joshua Glover story from Racine Heritage Museum’s exhibit This Train is Bound for Glory. The Glover story is but one story highlighted in the exhibit – and can be best introduced using the quote below from Finding Freedom. “What took place following [Joshua Glover’s and his master’s] […]
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