• Historical Presentation, The Horicon Hustle

    Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

    A vanishing marsh. A stolen name. Federal Indictments. An attempted murder charge. A fortune that collapsed overnight. This isn't fiction — it's Horicon, 1915.In 1915, Horicon Marsh was sold to Wisconsin farmers as "the richest onion ground in America" — by a man whose real name wasn't the one on the deed.What we've uncovered since: […]

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  • The Horicon Hustle

    Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

    Join us for this interesting side of history:  We're diving into one of the wildest true stories in Dodge County history — a Wisconsin marsh sold as farmland gold, con men running the same scheme across five states, a Chicago fortune, and a federal fraud case against 88 men and corporations. "The Horicon Hustle: How a […]

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