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Baraboo is a city in and the county seat of Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 The largest city in the county, Baraboo is the principal city of the Baraboo Micropolitan Statistical Area. Its 2010 population was 12,048. It is situated on the Baraboo River. Baraboo is home to the Circus World Museum, the former headquarters and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus. The Al. Ringling Theatre is an active landmark in the city. Baraboo is also near Devil's Lake State Park, the International Crane Foundation, and Aldo Leopold's Shack and Farm. ==History== The area around Baraboo was first settled by Abe Wood in 1838, and was originally known as the village of Adams.〔''(The Wisconsin Blue Book 1929 )''. Madison: Democrat Printing Company, 1929, p. 629.〕 In 1846 it became the county seat of Sauk County after a fierce fight with the nearby village of Reedsburg.〔("County Government: Why Adams County?" ) in Adams County Historical Society,''From Past to Present: Adams County''. Friendship, Wisconsin: New Past Press, 1999.〕 In 1852, the village was renamed "Baraboo", after the nearby river. It was incorporated as a city in 1882.〔("Term: Baraboo [brief history]" ) in ''Dictionary of Wisconsin History''.〕 Baraboo was the site of several sawmills early in its history because of its location near the Baraboo and Wisconsin Rivers. The city was the home of the Ringling Brothers. From 1884 to 1917 it was the headquarters of their circus and several others, leading to the nickname "Circus City".〔 Today Circus World Museum is located in Baraboo. A living history museum, it has a collection of circus wagons and other circus artifacts. It also has the largest library of circus information in the United States.〔Bill Steigerwald. ("Travels Without Charley: A beautiful lake and a movie palace await in Baraboo" ). ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', October 17, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2013.〕 The museum previously hosted the Great Circus Parade, which carried circus wagons and performers through the streets of Baraboo, across the state by train, and then through downtown Milwaukee. The Al. Ringling Theatre is a grand scale movie palace in downtown Baraboo, made possible through the financial assistance of the Ringling family. The Al Ringling home still exists. Located near Baraboo is the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, which was the largest munitions factory in the world during WWII, when it was known as "Badger Ordnance Works".〔(GSA - Badger Site Information )〕 The plant is no longer in use. Cirrus Aircraft is the maker of the world's best-selling single-engine aircraft, the SR22, and was the first manufacturer to install a whole-plane parachute recovery system as a standard on all their aircraft—designed to lower the airplane safely to the ground after a loss of control or structural failure. The company was founded in a rural Baraboo barn in 1984 by brothers Alan and Dale Klapmeier to produce the VK-30 kit aircraft.〔The Museum of Flight http://www.museumofflight.org/event/2014/may/21/lecture-cirrus-aircraft-ceo-dale-klapmeier〕〔Airport Journals http://airportjournals.com/9-the-dream-brothers-alan-and-dale-klapmeier/〕 After a few years of designing, they relocated to the Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Airport and began flight testing, before ultimately moving the company in 1994 to its present-day home in Duluth, MN where they now employ over 900 people.〔Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame - Exciting News From the National Aviation Hall of Fame http://www.wisconsinaviationhalloffame.org/blog/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baraboo, Wisconsin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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