Good morning.
A windy Wednesday with a high of ninety-three is the forecast for Whitewater.
This morning at 8 AM, Whitewater’s Tech Park Board meets.
On this day in 1975, a blockbuster hit America’s movie screens:
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls today in 1816 as one of claim-staking, or at least claim-defending:
1816 – Troops Arrive at Fort Crawford
On this date troops arrived at Fort Crawford. After the War of 1812, the United States Congress approved a plan to erect a chain of forts along the Fox-Wisconsin-Mississippi waterway. In 1816 Fort Crawford was erected on a mound behind the main village of Prairie du Chien. It was a four-sided enclosure made of squared logs, set horizontally. At the two opposing corners stood a blockhouse. Soldiers’ quarters formed the walls of the fort, faced the parade ground, and accommodated five companies. By the middle of the year, the 8th Infantry had established three posts on the east bank of the Mississippi: Fort Edwards, Fort Armstrong and Fort Crawford, the latter named for the Secretary of War. [Source: The History of Wisconsin, Volume 1, SHSW 1973, page 97]
Google’s daily puzzle is fit for naturalists: “The rising population of the only immortal animal species is spreading across the globe. Where did this predator originate?”