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7 unusual facts about Sheboygan


26301 Hellawillis

It is named after Hella Willis, an American educator in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Blanche Mehaffey

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Press, Theatrical News and Amusement Events, April 3, 1931, Page 18.

Loy Allen Bowlin

After his death, Bowlin's Mississippi home, the Beautiful Holy Jewel Home of the Original Rhinestone Cowboy, was acquired by the Kohler Foundation, Inc. and was moved to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where it is on permanent display.

Nancy Metz White

A smaller welded outdoor sculpture, Helping Hands, whimsically constructed from hand die forms recycled from a glove factory, is on permanent display at the Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Randy Hopper

WCLB is run from MDM's Fond du Lac offices, and no staff is maintained in Sheboygan.

Wet wipe

Rockline Industries of Sheboygan, Wisconsin (which has a large part of the private label wipe market in several segments) went on to be the first to innovate the first baby wipe refill pack and pop-up packs which have become common in the marketplace.

Wisconsin Chair Company

The fire engulfed much of downtown Port Washington and engines from Sheboygan and Milwaukee were called in to help contain the blaze.


Acuity

Acuity Insurance, an insurance company with headquarters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Acuity Insurance

The company began as the Mutual Auto Insurance Company of the Town of Herman in 1925 (in the unincorporated village of Franklin in Sheboygan County).

Calvary, Wisconsin

The depot for the Sheboygan-Fond du Lac Railroad needed to be built about 1 mile (2 km) north of the community because of the grade needed for trains to climb the Niagara Escarpment.

Cleveland, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

The main campus for Lakeshore Technical College is located in the village, while public school students are a part of the Sheboygan Area School District; the district maintains Cleveland Elementary School in the village, and those students usually attend Horace Mann Middle School and Sheboygan North High School in the city of Sheboygan later on if they have no school choice preference.

Conrad Krez

Krez was City Attorney of Sheboygan from 1856 to 1859 and District Attorney of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin from 1859 to 1862 and again from 1870 to 1876.

Gibbsville

Gibbsville, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States

John Michael Kohler

Today, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, which occupies a square block in downtown Sheboygan (containing Kohler's restored Gilded Age home along with modern buildings), is a tribute to this founding member of a distinguished family.

Kohler Strikes

The Kohler Company was founded in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1873, when John Michael Kohler II (1844–1900) took over his father-in-law's steel and iron factory.

Kohler-Andrae State Park

Kohler-Andrae State Park comprises two adjacent Wisconsin state parks located in the town of Wilson, a few miles south of the city of Sheboygan.

Ozaukee

The Ozaukee Interurban Trail, or Ozaukee-Sheboygan Interurban Trail, a rail trail in Ozaukee, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee counties, in Wisconsin in the United States

Peter Tiboris

Peter Tiboris was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on October 31, 1947, to Ernest Peter Tiboris, a dentist, from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Stella Menas, of Waukegan, Illinois, first generation Greek-Americans of the Greek Orthodox faith.

Sheboygan Area School District

Sheboygan Area School District is a school district in Sheboygan, Wisconsin that serves that city, the village of Cleveland, and the towns of Centerville, Mosel, Sheboygan and Wilson.

Sheboygan County Christian High School

Sheboygan County Christian High School is a Christian school located in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, founded in 1969.

Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Johnsonville Foods is a sausage company located near unincorporated Johnsonville, with a Sheboygan Falls address.

Shoreline Metro

Route 7 North (serves Superior Avenue, St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan Clinic, Pick 'n Save West, Sheboygan Police Headquarters, and Sheboygan County Job Center/Lakeshore Technical College-Sheboygan Campus)

Todd Wehr

Lakeland College in Sheboygan has a Todd Wehr Center, which contains The Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium, intramural fieldhouse, fitness center, weight room, and athletic offices.

WCLB

The station uses a three-tower directional facility at Sheboygan Falls, near the interchange between Highways 23 and 32.

Whistling Straits

The Whistling Straits complex is located north of Sheboygan, in the unincorporated community of Haven in the Town of Mosel in Sheboygan County.

Wisconsin Highway 42

It runs north–south in northeast Wisconsin from Northport's ferry dock to Sheboygan.

WMKG-CA

Despite the station's low-power status, its location near Lake Michigan assures amplification of their signal across the lake into the Milwaukee market within the Port Washington and Sheboygan areas (Milwaukee itself is served by analog low-power station WBWT-LP on Channel 38).

WPVS-LP

The launch by TBN of WWRS from Mayville did not affect W16BS as that station's signal was blocked by the Kettle Moraine range east of Fond du Lac, blocking any signal from entering Sheboygan and leaving TBN to continue to operate W16BS.

Several factors influenced the sale of the station, including a declining audience via antenna for TBN's translator stations, and the signals of religious stations WTLJ and WLLA from Western Michigan being easily receivable during the summer months in the Sheboygan area.

FCC records indicate that the station returned to the air on channel 29 as W29DJ on March 6, 2008, but from a different transmitter located south of Random Lake east of Highway 57, which does not actually cover Sheboygan, and instead broadcasts to communities in southeast Sheboygan County and northeast Ozaukee County.

WWG91

WWG91 (sometimes referred to as Sheboygan All Hazards) is a NOAA Weather Radio station that serves Sheboygan and Manitowoc-Two Rivers, Wisconsin, broadcasting at 162.525 MHz (Channel 6 on most S.A.M.E-equipped and current model weather radios).


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