Every Lake
Wisconsin
The Driftless Area — the corner of the Midwest the glaciers forgot to flatten.
Wisconsin in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of Wisconsin.
About Wisconsin
Wisconsin sits between two Great Lakes, Superior at the top and Michigan on the east, with the Door Peninsula reaching out between Green Bay and the open lake. The Mississippi and the St. Croix draw the western border in a valley of tall bluffs. Most of the state was smoothed by the ice — the last glacial advance is named the Wisconsin — but the southwest is the Driftless Area, never glaciated, all steep coulees and unglaciated ridges. The northern third is lake-dotted forest, the south is dairy country. Seventy-two counties.
Wisconsin entered on May 29, 1848 as the 30th state. Madison was chosen for the capital in 1836, before it had a single building, by a land speculator named James Duane Doty who bought the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona and made sure the legislature saw the site. The capitol still stands on that neck of land. The board carries the Door Peninsula's lighthouses, the Apostle Islands on Superior, and I-94 and I-90 running down to Chicago.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 11 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
