Unique Sites

Indian Mounds Park

Whitewater

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Dating back to approximately 1000 AD, Indian Mounds Park has one of the most diverse and unusual collections of animal and geometric mounds in the nation.  This Native American ceremonial and burial site is listed on the National Regisster of Historic Places.

Artesian Flowing Well

Whitewater

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The Artesian Flowing Well, hand dug in 1895, produces pure, clean artesian water and is used by many area residents as a regular supply of drinking water.

Birthplace of The P.T. Barnum Circus

"The Greatest Show on Earth"

Delavan

Delavan has a storied history steeped in circus myths and legends.  In 1847, Edmund and Jeremiah Mabie chose Delavan as the winter home to the U.S. Olympic Circus, then the largest traveling show in America.  The Mabie Circus stayed at the present site of Lake Lawn Resort on Delavan Lake for 100 years.  During that time, hundreds of circus performers from 26 circuses set up their winter home in Delavan including "The Greatest Show on Earch" which was founded in Delavan in 1871.

Driehaus Family Fountain

Lake Geneva

The Driehaus Family Fountain, located in Lake Genev'a Riviera Park, is a replica of the Angel of the Waters Fountain at Bethesda Terrace in New York City's Central Park.  The winged figure at the top of the fountain carries a lily, the sybol of purity, in one hand while her other hand extends to bless the water below.  For New Yorders, the fountain symbolized the purifying of the city's water supply when the Croton Aqueduct opened in 1842.  Angel of the Waters was placed in Central Park in 1873 and was designed by Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a sculptural commission in New York City.

Walworth County - Home to Lake Geneva & Beyond!

Burlington, Darien, Delavan, East Troy, Elkhorn, Fontana, Genoa City,

Lake Geneva, Sharon, Walworth, Whitewater, Williams Bay