Kickapoo Valley Reserve

  • LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    November 15, 2009 at 5:58 am #1326147

    MANY family farms were displaced to make a huge lake to be a flood control device on the Kickapoo River (130 acre lake) . After a lot of research all of the family farms were bought out by the government voluntary and involuntarily. Then there were more studies done and a huge flood control area was made near LaFarge , Wisconsin.

    http://lenharris.blogspot.com/2009/11/kickapoo-valley-reserve.html

    northstar42
    west central Minnesotsa
    Posts: 921
    November 15, 2009 at 9:05 am #815982

    What ever happened to the families that got kicked off their own land?

    LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    November 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm #816007

    families were displaced.
    There is some serious bitterness in the area to this day still.

    francisco4
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 3607
    November 15, 2009 at 4:27 pm #816016

    Len,

    How long ago did this happen? From recent years, it looks as though they need a better plan. If memory serves me right, here has been a bunch of flooding in the Westby, Viroqua, Avalanch, Richland Center,ect, area.

    FDR

    francisco4
    Holmen, WI
    Posts: 3607
    November 15, 2009 at 8:56 pm #816036

    Thanks Len!

    FDR

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