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FormatJournal Article
Title, AnalyticFrench Francs Pay for German Schleisingerville: Washington County Village Changes Name to Slinger after WWI
Journal TitlePerspektiven
Date of PublicationSummer 2003
Volume ID2
Issue ID3
Location in Work1, 4-5, ill.
Language or Document TypeEnglish
AbstractIn 1845, with money intended for the purchase of horses for the French government, Baruch Schleisinger Weil instead bought 1,950 acres of government land in Wisconsin for the price of 25 cents an acre.
NotesGoethe House of Wisconsin
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsWisconsin -- Washington County/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Weil, Baruch Schleisinger/ Jews, German