Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau, Wisconsin Downtown Wausau horizon Downtown Wausau horizon Official seal of Wausau, Wisconsin Wausau is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
The Wisconsin River divides the town/city into east and west.
The town/city is contiguous to the Town of Wausau.
As of the 2010 census, Wausau had a populace of 39,106. It is the core town/city of the Wausau Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA), which contains all of Marathon County and had a populace of 134,063 at the 2010 census.
The initial Milwaukee Road train station was used as a logo for Wausau Insurance companies starting in 1954; the logo used this angle.
The Wisconsin River first drew European-American pioneer to the region during the mid-19th century as they migrated west into the Great Lakes region following assembly of the Erie Canal in New York State.
Several Prairie School homes are positioned in Wausau.
George Stevens, the namesake for the town/city of Stevens Point positioned south of Wausau, began harvesting the pine forests for lumber in 1840 and assembled a saw mill.
Loggers came from Cortland County, New York, Carroll County, New Hampshire, Orange County, Vermont and Down East Maine in what is now Washington County, Maine and Hancock County, Maine.
By 1852, Wausau had been established as a town and continued to expanded and mature.
Kickbusch as their first mayor in 1874. Five years earlier, Kickbusch had returned to his homeland of Germany and brought back with him 702 citizens , all of whom are believed to have settled in the Wausau area.
When the barns appeared in 1874, Wausau became more accessible to pioneer and industry.
Wausau's favorable locale on the Wisconsin River was partly responsible for the city's survival.
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 had a primary effect on the Wausau area.
However, under the New Deal, Wausau was decidedly modernized.
After the fall of Saigon, Hmong refugees from Southeast Asia who fought alongside the CIA immigrated into Wausau at the end of the 1970s.
Wausau church organizations (Catholic and Lutheran) helped Hmong refugees adapt to American life.
The 400 Block in downtown Wausau By the mid-to-late-1990s, the town/city of Wausau began to purchase and precarious parts of West Industrial Park to meet the needs of the expanding economy and companies.
The square is a focal point for summer festivals. In recent years Wausau has redone the 400 Block, adding a permanent stage and other renovations that in total cost $2 million.
By the end of the 20th century, Wausau began to implement the Wausau Central Business District Master Plan, which encompassed redevelopment and economic revamping of downtown Wausau.
The tallest commercial building in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee is positioned in Wausau, the 241-foot Dudley tower. Significant school assembly in recent years has occurred in response to changing demographics. Rib Mountain from downtown Wausau Wausau is positioned at 44 57 N 89 38 WCoordinates: 44 57 N 89 38 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 20.04 square miles (51.90 km2), of which, 18.78 square miles (48.64 km2) is territory and 1.26 square miles (3.26 km2) is water. The town/city is positioned at an altitude of 1,195 feet (364 m).
Wausau is close to the center of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere.
Just west of Wausau, 45 N meets 90 W (45 N 90 W), which is exactly halfway between the equator and the north pole and a quarter of the way around the world from the prime meridian.
Wausau's climate is classified as halfway between temperate and subarctic (boreal and hemiboreal). It is assembled on or around a hemiboreal forest, which has some of the characteristics of a boreal forest and shares some of the features of the temperate zone forests to the south.
Climate data for Wausau, Wisconsin (Downtown) Wausau Metropolitan Travel Destination Wausau is the larger principal town/city of the Wausau-Merrill CSA, a Combined Travel Destination that contains the Wausau urbane region (Marathon County) and the Merrill micropolitan region (Lincoln County), which had a combined populace of 155,475 at the 2000 census. In 1996, a US census estimate found the Hmong citizens were the biggest ethnic minority group in Wausau, with about 11% of the population. As of 2003 the Hmong Americans are the biggest ethnic minority in Wausau. Churches and civil service agencies settled refugees, most of them Hmong with some Vietnamese and Lao, in Wausau after the Vietnam War.
Census, the Wausau SMSA had severaler than 1% non-White citizens . There were a several dozen immigrants in 1978.
By 1980 Wausau had 200 immigrants. This increased to 400 in 1982 and 800 in 1984. In 1981 there were 160 Hmong pupils in the Wausau School District and in 1991 1,010. In a reconstructionending in 1994 the tax rate of the Wausau School District rose by 10.48% as a result of the costs of services to kids from immigrant families.
The increase was three times as high as the increase in an contiguous school precinct without a large immigrant population. By 1994 Wausau had 4,200 refugees.
The town/city experienced some civil upheaval following the Hmong arrival. Some schools in Wausau had a minority of English speakers and some were dominantly Hmong pupils. Some native-born American families in Wausau criticized the crime and costs in civil services. In Wausau there is mostly little Hmong-language media because for much of its history, the Hmong language was not written. Wausau has a mayor council form of government.
The Wausau region has a lower than average unemployment rate and continues a steady expansion in job creation and economic viability among manufacturers and service providers alike. Wausau has 12 banks with 41 branch locations, three trust companies and three holding companies in the urbane area.
The Wausau region is a center for cultivation of American ginseng, and is also known for its red granite, which is quarried nearby. Wausau is served by the Wausau School District, which has 14 elementary schools, two middle schools (John Muir and Horace Mann), and two high schools (Wausau East and Wausau West).
Everest Area School District also serves a large part of the Wausau area.
This school precinct has 6 elementary schools, one middle school, one junior high, and one senior high.
Wausau Area Montessori Charter School serves grades 1 6 and is homed at Horace Mann Middle School.
The Excel, Enrich, Achieve (EEA) Learning Academy is a enhance charter school in the Wausau School District, homed in Wausau East High School, and is for pupils who do not find the traditional school setting to be a fit for their academic needs.
Wausau Engineering and Global Leadership (EGL) Academy is a enhance charter school homed in Wausau East High School.
Everest School District, had its first year in operation in the 2011 2012 school year.
The city's Roman Catholic parochial schools are known as the Newman Catholic Schools.
There are two Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod undertaking schools in Wausau: Our Savior's and St.
Wausau is home to the University of Wisconsin Marathon County, a two-year college and Northcentral Technical College, a two-year technical college.
It is also home to a number of satellite campuses of other colleges, including University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Upper Iowa University, Lakeland College, Concordia University Wisconsin (closed in 2012), Rasmussen College, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Globe University.
The Marathon County Public Library (MCPL) Wausau Headquarters, positioned downtown near the Wausau Center Mall, is the biggest library in the Wausau area.
It serves as the command posts for the Marathon County Public Library system, which encompasses all enhance libraries in Marathon County, including eight branch libraries. The Marathon County Historical Museum also maintains a library.
The Marathon County Public Library (MCPL) Wausau Headquarters The city's 37 town/city parks, which total 337 acres (136 ha), are maintained by the Wausau and Marathon County Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Department.
Athletic Park, a baseball stadium on the east side of Wausau, is home to the Wisconsin Woodchucks baseball team.
Whitewater Park includes a third of a mile of Class I-II+ rapids along the Wisconsin River in downtown Wausau.
Sylvan Hills is a county park inside the Wausau town/city limits.
Marathon Park, another county park in the town/city of Wausau, is the locale of the Wisconsin Valley Fair.
Marathon Park includes the southernmost section of old-growth forest remaining in Wisconsin. The Little Red School House is homed inside the park.
Exact replica of the downtown Milwaukee Road station on the former ground of Wausau Insurance on a hill above the town/city KAUW - Wausau Downtown Airport Major roads in Wausau are: Grand Avenue, North 6th St/North 5th St(one way pair), East and West Bridge St, West Thomas St, 1st Ave/3rd Ave(one way pair), Stewart Ave, 17th Ave, Merrill Ave, 28th Ave, and East Wausau Ave.
When traveling in Wausau, be aware that numbered "Streets" are on the east side of Wausau and numbered "Avenues" are on the west side of Wausau.
The Wisconsin River divides the town/city between East and West.
1st St, and Scott St to the Wisconsin River; and southbound from the Wisconsin River along Washington St, 1st St, and Forest St back to Grand Ave.
The Wisconsin Woodchucks baseball team of the Northwoods League, an NCAA summer baseball league, plays home games at the Athletic Park in Wausau.
The Wisconsin Woodchucks were formerly known as the Wausau Woodchucks.
The Wausau River Hawks baseball team of the Dairyland League, a Wisconsin Baseball Association summer baseball league, plays home games at Athletic Park in Wausau.
The Wausau River Hawks were formerly known as Wausau Precision. The 700-ft mountain is the highest skiable mountain in the state and one of the highest vertical drops in the Midwest. It first became a ski region in 1937, when Wausau inhabitants cleared six runs by hand, installed the nation's longest ski lift, and assembled a chalet with contemporary quarried nearby.
Wausau is home to a kayak course which has hosted various regional, national, and world competitions over the last two decades.
It is also home to the Wausau Curling Club, with an eight-sheet ice surface.
In the beginning of 2012, Wausau bought the former Holtz-Krause Landfill for plans to build a soccer complex.
See also: List of airways broadcasts in Wausau and Central Wisconsin, List of tv stations in Wausau-Rhinelander and region There are many types of entertainment available to Wausau inhabitants and visitors including Exhibitour, Concerts on the Square, Market Place Thursdays, Screen on the Green and the Hmong New Year. The only small-town everyday journal is the Wausau Daily Herald, with a everyday circulation of 21,400 amid the week and 27,500 on Sunday. City Pages is a no-charge weekly newspaper.
Wausau is home to the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, which homes the "Birds in Art" compilation as well as Leigh Yawkey Woodson's compilation of decorative glass.
The Grand Theater is positioned in downtown Wausau.
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