German Area of OWW
Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.
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Pleasant Ridge church was unusual because of the fact that it had a mixed race congregation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The original structure was torn down after a storm in 1921 but this replica was constructed for Old World Wisconsin. It is unique at Old World; all the other historic structures in the museum are originals moved there from various locations in Wisconsin.