Legends' Travel Blog 2005-2014

With a need to streamline, and have a bit less redundancy, we've decided that we will consolidate this blog into our Photo Blog.  Our Photo Travel Blog allows you the ability to get much of the same information, as well as many more visuals, where you...

After dodging some bad weather leaving Wisconsin, we made our way to Rapid River Michigan and several days of seeing Stonington Peninsula, along with some other great Michigan treasures, like Fayette Historic Town Site.
This 19th Century, well preserved town, was most industrious.  They manufactured charcoal pig iron here from 1867 to 1891, along with lime.   Now in a State Historic Park, visitors can take a walking tour among 20 original structures, including eleven...

On our way from Fond du Lac to Milwaukee, we stopped at the Dheinsville Settlement just outside Germantown.  It's an historic 1850's original German settlement with several of the older buildings still standing, including the 1862 Christ Church, an ...

While staying in the area around Kettle Moraine State Park, our primary destination was Old World Wisconsin.  This is an attraction run by the Wisconsin State Historical Society that was worth the admission price and then some.
To create this outdoor museum, researchers traveled throughout the state looking for authentic buildings representing generations of Wisconsin settlers. Opening in 1976, over 60 historic buildings from around the state have been painstakingly moved here...