Latest developments: A sense of history, tourism and the future

No matter where we go, it is almost a 100 percent certainty that someone was there before us. And in many cases, what they encountered there was reason enough to stay there. Let’s take a look at Dunn County, as an example.

Approximately 14,000 years ago, there is evidence that early humans hunting mammoth were in what is now Wisconsin. Fossil evidence shows that these early tourists continued to visit the area to hunt, fish and gather.

Settlement began in earnest about 3,000 years ago when permanent villages began to appear. While using the same sorts of subsistence activities as before, only tourists-turned-residents did this in a place that was better than the nomadic life. They actually did what was to become the state slogan: “Just stay a little bit longer!”

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