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Belgium is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located along Interstate 43, the village is one of the northernmost communities in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 2,245 at the 2020 census . Beginning in the 1840s, immigrant farmers from Luxembourg settled in Northern Ozaukee County and formed several rural ...
Website. www .town .belgium .wi .us. Belgium is a town in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,513 at the 2000 census. The Village of Belgium is surrounded on all sides by the town, and the unincorporated communities of Decker, Holy Cross, Lake Church, and Sauk Trail Beach are located in the town, as is the ghost town ...
1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts. 1989 – The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
1581834 [ 3 ] Website. cityofmadison .com. Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. The population was 269,840 as of the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 77th-most populous in the United States.
Lyrics to the song Tins d' eraler / Tehng de raalie "Time to go home" written from memory by a Walloon speaker in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Walloon is a dialect of the Walloon language brought to Wisconsin by immigrants from Wallonia, the largely French-speaking region of Belgium. It is spoken in the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin, United States.
Northeast Wisconsin saw a huge influx of immigrants from Belgium in the mid-1800s. It began in 1852 when two Belgian families decided to make the move to America. They were unhappy with the Belgian monarchy, and sought what is now known as the "American dream." [ 1] Belgians then flooded Brown, Door, and Kewaunee counties.
Belgium, [ A ] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [ B ] is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. It covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) [ 4 ] and has a population of more than 11.7 ...
The people listed below were born in or otherwise closely associated with Belgium, Wisconsin and Belgium (town), Wisconsin. Pages in category "People from Belgium, Wisconsin" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.