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Icelanders settle Washington Island
1870
Washington Island, Wisconsin
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Four young Icelanders came here in 1870 for the fishing and wrote home, and it became the oldest Icelandic settlement in the United States. The island still holds a Scandinavian festival and a stave church. Its tavern got through Prohibition by registering as a pharmacy and selling Angostura bitters by the shot as a stomach tonic, it is said to still sell more of it than anywhere on earth.
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