Good morning, Whitewater
In the City of Whitewater today there’s a meeting of the Common Council at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.
The National Weather Service forecast predicts a 100% chance of showers a high temperature of 66 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts “Dry and Cold” conditions.
Yesterday’s better prediction: NWS.
In Wisconsin history on this date, in 1837, a strange moment from our past: Burlington, Iowa Selected as Temporary Capital of Wisconsin Territory:
On this date Burlington, Iowa was chosen as a temporary capital of the Wisconsin Territory. A year earlier, legislators offered a bill making Madison the capital with a temporary capital in Dubuque until which time a permanent building could be constructed in Madison. Legislators also proposed the City of Belmont as a temporary capital. One month later, on December 12th, a fire destroyed the two-story temporary capital in Burlington. The new legislature moved its headquarters to the Webber and Remey’s store in Burlington where they conducted government affairs until June 1838.