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Historian Peter Shrake Presents 19th Century Wisconsin
Name: Historian Peter Shrake Presents 19th Century WisconsinDate: June 22, 2026Time: 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM CDTWebsite: http://www.reedsburglibrary.org
Event Description:
Join us at the Reedsburg Library, 370 Vine St, for historian Peter Shake’s presentation “The Land of Promise: Wisconsin in the Early 19th Century, 1816-1848.” Shrake, archivist at the Robert L. Parkinson Library at Circus World, has done extensive research on early Wisconsin history.
In the early 19th century Wisconsin was a region in flux. The War of 1812 had concluded. Populations and governments were shifting. The British were a recent memory and Indian nations grappled with the onset of American authority. The fur trade, still an important but declining part of the economy now rubbed elbows with emerging mining, lumber, agriculture, and fishing interests.
Learn about a tumultuous era in Wisconsin from the War of 1812 to statehood in 1848.