Good morning,
Today’s forecast for Whitewater calls for a partly sunny day, with a high of eighty-five.
The City of Whitewater has three scheduled public meetings for today. At 4 p.m., the Parks and Rec Board meets. At 6 p.m., the Whitewater Effigy Mounds Preserve Task Force meets.
Also at 6 p.m., Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets, to consider, principally, the possible expansion of Whitewater’s Walmart. If there’s a single document other than the agenda that the Planning Commission will have before it, it’s not online as of this writing. It’s possible, of course, that there are no documents to consider, and everyone will walk into this meeting, sit down, and just start talking.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this date in 1832, the Black Hawk War ended:
1832 – Black Hawk War Ends
On this date the defeat of Black Hawk and his followers at the Battle of Bad Axe, ended the Black Hawk War. Black Hawk led the American troops northward while the rest of the Indians constructed rafts and canoes to facilitate an escape over the Mississippi river. The plan was successful initially but eventually General Atkinson realized the ruse. In the battle, women, children and the elderly hid behind rocks and logs and American soldiers often could not or did not differentiate between warriors and the women and children. Atkinson sent Wabasha and his Sioux warriors, enemies of the Sauk, after the approximately 150 members of the British Band that made it to the Western bank of the Mississippi. The Sauk, “escaped the best they could, and dispersed”, but only 22 women and children were spared. Black Hawk escaped, but the Battle of Bad Axe marked the end of the war. [Source: Along the Black Hawk Trail by William F. Stark, p.142-153]
