(Слайд 9) Fond du Lac. (Слайд 10) Eau Claire

(Слайд 9) Fond du Lac

Fond du Lac, city, seat (1844) of Fond du Lac county, east-central Wisconsin, U. S. It lies on the Fond du Lac River, at the southern end of Lake Winnebago, about 55 miles (90 km) northwest of Milwaukee. Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago) Indians were early inhabitants of the area. The city originated in 1785 as a French trading post, named for its location at the “bottom of the lake. ” It was laid out in 1835 and settled the following year, and it attracted many German immigrants. In 1835, the construction of the Military Ridge Road began. It passed through Fond du Lac, connecting the forts in Wisconsin and Fort Dearborn in Illinois. [12] The first school in Fond du Lac was built in 1843. The first railroad came to the community in 1852. About 1856, the first English newspaper in Fond du Lac, the Fond du Lac Commonwealth, was founded. The economy was originally based on lumbering and grain milling but is now diversified and depends primarily on dairy farming and manufacturing (machine tools, agricultural equipment, automotive parts, and outboard motors and other marine equipment). Nowadays, Fond du Lac is an average American town with several schools and colleges, churches, businesses, especially marine ones, and different historic districts.

(Слайд 10) Eau Claire

Eau Claire, city, Eau Claire and Chippewa counties, seat (1857) of Eau Claire county, west-central Wisconsin, U. S. It lies at the confluence of the Eau Claire (“Clear Water, ” so named by 18th-century French trappers and traders) and Chippewa rivers, 90 miles (150 km) east of St. Paul, Minnesota.

It was settled in 1846 and laid out in 1855 and developed a lumber economy and a strong rivalry with the nearby lumbering community of Chippewa Falls. After local forests were exhausted in the early 20th century, Eau Claire turned to manufacturing (notably, until the early 1990s, rubber tires). The modern economy is based on manufacturing (computer equipment, paper products, and electronics), food processing, and health care; it is also the trading centre for the surrounding agricultural (especially dairying) region. Chippewa Falls, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Eau Claire, is a centre of computer manufacturing and beer production. Eau Claire is the seat of Chippewa Valley Technical College (1912) and the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire (1916). Carson Park, a peninsula on Half Moon Lake, contains the Chippewa Valley Museum and the Paul Bunyan Logging Camp (built in the 1930s), which contains a replica of an 1890s logging camp.

Modern Eau Claire is home to various religious denominations, such as different Baptist, catholic, Evangelical, Lutheran and others.

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