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Aunt Polly's Wash Tub
Aunt Polly’s Wash Tub is a lake in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It is the only lake in the area that has soft water. It was previously called Soft Water Lake until it was named for Polly Gage (1805–1882) who lived on the lake and took advantage of the water’s softness In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to plastic deformation, such as an indentation (over an area) or a scratch (linear), induced mechanically either by Pressing (metalworking), pressing or abrasion ... for the laundry of the Nashotah Mission. Gage lived there until 1880 when the property was foreclosed. The family of Laura Tallmadge (1842–1879) also lived on the lake. The area once was called “Pabst Swamp Preserve”. After the Gages left, the son of Frederick Pabst, , purchased the land around the lake for Pabst Farms, and farm employees would ice skate on the lake in winter. The lake is now in , which was named for former city attorney Bill Chapman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit, Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Summit is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 4,784 at the 2020 census. The former unincorporated communities of Summit Center, Summit Corners, and Waterville are located in the village. History Summit was initially a part of Milwaukee County.Barquist 1987, p. 37. The town was first settled in the spring of 1837 by Andrew Baxter.Barquist 1987, p. 12. In 1838, Curtis Reed, who was the first town chairman, became the first postmaster.Barquist 1987, p. 36. By 1840, there were 335 settlers in Summit's .Barquist 1987, p. 13. The first town meeting, which took place on April 5, 1842,Barquist 1987, p. 39. selected Ralph Frisbie as the first town clerk. The first church building in the Town of Summit was constructed in 1842 at Nashotah Mission.Barquist 1987, p. 38. When the mission was moved to Delafield, St. Mary's Church on highways 67 and 18 became the oldest operating church in the town, dating back to 1871. The 1875 census reported 619 males, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Oconomowoc ( ) is a city in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The name was derived from Coo-no-mo-wauk, the Potawatomi language, Potawatomi term for 'waterfall'. The population was 18,203 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is partially adjacent to the Lac La Belle, Wisconsin, Village of Lac La Belle and near the village of Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin. History Before 1700, this region was inhabited by Potawatomi peoples descended from Woodland Indians known as "Mound Builders, mound builders". There are also reports that the Sauk Indian chief Black Hawk (Sauk leader), Black Hawk had a campsite on Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin, Oconomowoc Lake.Mary A. Kane, ''Oconomowoc'' (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), pp. 7-8. The first white person recorded in the area was Amable (sometimes spelled "Aumable") Vicau, brother-in-law of Solomon Juneau, one of the founders of Milwaukee. Vicau established a trading post in 1827. White settlers soon followed, beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Water
Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates. Drinking hard water may have moderate health benefits. It can pose critical problems in industrial settings, where water hardness is monitored to avoid costly breakdowns in boilers, cooling towers, and other equipment that handles water. In domestic settings, hard water is often indicated by a lack of foam formation when soap is agitated in water, and by the formation of limescale in kettles and water heaters. Wherever water hardness is a concern, water softening is commonly used to reduce hard water's adverse effects. Origins Natural rainwater, snow and other forms of precipitation typically have low concentrations of divalent cations such as calcium and magnesium. They may have small concentrations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Gage
Polly is a given name, most often feminine, which originated as a variant of Molly (a diminutive of Mary). Polly may also be a short form of names such as Polina, Polona, Pauline, Paula or Paulina. People Female Given name * PJ Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter * Polly Apfelbaum (born 1955), American contemporary visual artist * Polly Arnold (born 1972), British academic * Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician * Polly Bartlett, American serial killer, perhaps fictitious * Polly Barton, American textile artist * Polly Bemis (1853–1933), Chinese-American pioneer * Polly Bennett (1922–2003), American artist * Polly Berry (c. 1818–c. 1870–1880), also known as Polly Crockett and Polly Wash, African-American slave who successfully sued for her freedom and that of her daughter * Polly Borland (born 1959), Australian photographer * Polly Bradfield (), American violinist * Polly Brown (born 1947), English singer * Polly Draper (born 1955), American actress, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nashotah Mission
Nashotah House is an Anglican seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin. The seminary opened in 1842 and received its official charter in 1847. The institution is independent and generally regarded as one of the more theologically Conservative Christianity, conservative seminaries in the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church. It is also officially recognized by the Anglican Church in North America. Nashotah House is the oldest institution of higher learning in Wisconsin. Its campus was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. History Nashotah House was founded in 1842 by three young deacons of The Episcopal Church (TEC): James Lloyd Breck, William Adams (educator), William Adams, and John Henry Hobart, Jr., who were all recent graduates of the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Bishop Jackson Kemper had asked them to undertake this task. Gustaf Unonius was the first graduate. Theological tradition Nashotah House was, from the beginning, a ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Tallmadge
Laura may refer to: People and fictional characters * Laura (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters with the name * Laura, muse of Petrarch's poetry * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia, a town * Laura Bay, a bay on Eyre Peninsula * Laura River (Queensland) * Laura River (Western Australia) Italy * Laura (Capaccio), a village of the municipality of Capaccio, Campania * Laura, Crespina Lorenzana, a village in Tuscany United States * Laura, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Laura, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Laura, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Laura, Ohio, a village Elsewhere * Laura, Saskatchewan, Canada, a hamlet * Laura, Marshall Islands, a town * Laura, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Laura River (Romania) * 467 Laura, an asteroid Arts and entertainment Art * ''Laura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Pabst
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich "Frederick" Pabst (March 28, 1836 – January 1, 1904) was a German-American ship's captain and brewer and the namesake of the Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst was born in Prussia and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was 12. He became a ship's captain and married Maria Best, daughter of a small brewery owner, Jacob Best. After a shipping accident, Pabst bought into his father-in-law's brewery company, learned the business, increased output, and helped the brewery to go public, after which he became president of the company in 1873. The company's name was later changed to the Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst also developed a popular resort north of Milwaukee, built a 14-story Pabst Building in downtown Milwaukee, helped organize the Wisconsin National Bank, and built Milwaukee's Pabst Theater. Biography Early life Pabst was born on March 28, 1836, in the village of Nikolausrieth, in the Province of Saxony, in the Kingdom of Prussia. Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ice Skate
Ice skates are metal blades attached underfoot and used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice while ice skating. The first ice skates were made from leg bones of horse, ox or deer, and were attached to feet with leather straps. These skates required a pole with a sharp metal spike that was used for pushing the skater forward, unlike modern bladed skates. Modern skates come in many different varieties, each suited to specific conditions or activities. People across the globe wear skates recreationally in ice rinks or on frozen bodies of water, and skates are the standard footwear in many sports, including figure skating, bandy, ice hockey, ringette, rink bandy, rinkball, speed skating and tour skating. History According to a study done by Federico Formenti, University of Oxford, and Alberto Minetti, University of Milan, Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5,000 years ago from animal bones. This was important for the Finnish populations to save energy in harsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Carp
The common carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), also known as European carp, Eurasian carp, or simply carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Arkive The native wild populations are considered vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), but the species has also been domesticated and introduced (see aquaculture) into environments worldwide, and is often considered a destructive invasive species, being included in the list of the world's 100 worst invasive species. It gives its name to the carp family, Cyprinidae. Taxonomy The type subspecies is '' Cyprinus carpio carpio'', native to much of Europe (notably the Danube and Volga Rivers).Jian Feng Zhou, Qing Jiang Wu, Yu Zhen Ye & Jin Gou Tong (2003). Genetic divergence between ''Cyprinus carpio carpio'' and ''Cyprinus carpio haematopterus'' as assessed by mitochondrial DNA analysis, with em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullfrog
''Bullfrog'' is a common English language term to refer to large, aggressive frogs, regardless of species. Examples of bullfrogs include: Frog species Americas *Helmeted water toad (''Calyptocephalella gayi''), endemic to Chile *American bullfrog (''Lithobates catesbeianus''), indigenous to North America *Cane toad (''Rhinella marina''), a toad indigenous to Central and South America, called "bullfrog" in the Philippines Australia *'' Limnodynastes dorsalis'', found in Southwest Australia *'' Limnodynastes dumerilii'', found in Eastern Australia * Giant banjo frog (''Limnodynastes interioris''), found in Eastern Australia Africa *African bullfrog (''Pyxicephalus adspersus''), found in central and southern Africa *Calabresi's bullfrog (''Pyxicephalus obbianus''), found in Somalia *Crowned bullfrog (''Hoplobatrachus occipitalis''), found in much of Africa *Edible bullfrog (''Pyxicephalus edulis''), found in much of Africa Asia *Banded bullfrog (''Kaloula pulchra''), found in So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
