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28 June 2025

WI Historical Society Celebrates Lake Find

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WI Historical Society Celebrates Lake Find

A three-thousand-year-old canoe has been found in a Wisconsin lake. 

The Wisconsin Historical Society said Thursday that a dugout canoe recovered from Lake Mendota last May is the oldest canoe ever found in the Great Lakes region, and was used by indigenous people around the year 1000 BC.  They say the 14-foot canoe was carved from a single piece of white oak and was found near the same place where a 12-hundred-year-old canoe was discovered last November.  Both canoes are being restored by preservationists.

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