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The Reason Wisconsin Abolished Capital Punishment. The John McCaffary Story. Kenosha, Wisconsin

This modest home at the corner of 13th Court and 58th Street in Kenosha changed the history for the state of Wisconsin. Here’s the story… John McCaffary was born in Ireland in 1820 and moved t…[View More]

The SS Wisconsin Shipwreck, Kenosha, Wisconsin

The Wisconsin was an iron-hulled package steamer built by the “Goodrich Line” at the Detroit Dry Dock Complex. At the time the ship was constructed, Henry Ford was employed by the Detroit Dry Dock…[View More]

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Kenosha, Wisconsin

In 1976 I purchased a 1970 American Motors AMX automobile and in the summer of 1977 attended a national meet for owners of these rare little hotrods in Kenosha, Wisconsin where they were originally bu…[View More]

2022 AMC Homecoming, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Every 3 years at the end of July the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin welcomes home the AMC/Rambler cars that were made right there in town. People travel from throughout the country and Canada to attend th…[View More]

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