Both adults incubate the eggs for about 21 days but the male takes care of the young after the hatch.Ĭool facts: This bird as it probes up and down for food with its long bill has a sewing machine movement look. Typically 3-4 eggs olive-buff to brown in color are laid. The nest bowl is lined grasses, mosses, twigs, leaves and ptarmigan feathers. Nesting: Nest is a shallow depression on the ground usually near water within think vegetation. They also can be found in flooded agricultural fields and freshwater mud flats.ĭiet: Insects, insect larvae, crustaceans, marine worms, snails, mollusks, and aquatic larvae, sometimes seeds too in migration and during the breeding season. In migration and during winter they are found on saltwater tidal flats and marshes. Habitat: At breeding time they prefer moist tundra, open marshes, and bogs in the boreal zone, preferable close to fresh water inland. Goodland 1943-1946, pg.Category: Sandpipers, Phalaropes, and Allies ^ 'Wisconsin Blue Book 1960,' Walter S.^ Population Estimates Boundary Changes Archived August 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, United States Census Bureau.

'Kraut Music Fest returns to Racine County this weekend'. Franksville: 'the first 100 years', Franksville, Wisconsin, 1875-1975 in conjunction with the 25th annual Kraut Festival, July 24-27, 1975. Morse, Member of the United States House of Representatives, was born in Franksville. Walter Goodland, Governor of Wisconsin, lived on his farm in Franksville.

None of the families and 1.7% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64. The per capita income for the CDP was $25,951. Males had a median income of $41,957 versus $30,104 for females. The median income for a household in the CDP was $65,863, and the median income for a family was $67,173. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.5 males. For every 100 females, there were 101.9 males. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 27.9% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 34.3% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.75 and the average family size was 3.04. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. There were 651 households, out of which 39.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% were married couples living together, 6.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.4% were non-families. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.91% of the population. The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.76% White, 0.61% African American, 0.45% Native American, 0.95% Asian, 0.56% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. There were 661 housing units at an average density of 152.4/sq mi (58.8/km 2). The population density was 412.4 people per square mile (159.2/km 2). Īccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had a total area of 4.3 square miles (11.2 km 2), all of it land.Īs of the census of 2000, there were 1,789 people, 651 households, and 531 families residing in the CDP. įranksville became part of the newly established village of Caledonia on March 20, 2006. : 12 The festival's run ended in 2002, but was revived in 2015 as Kraut Music Fest. : 5 In 1949, the company held the first Kraut Festival, which was originally a picnic for employees and friends, but later expanded to a 4-day event. The name likely came from either Frank Brandecker, a surveyor who platted the area, or Frank Drandieker, a foreman of the crew that laid the railroad tracks through the area. : 22 Contrary to popular belief, however, the company did not give Franksville its name, which had already been established. In 1907, the Frank Pure Food Company was established and built a plant in Franksville for the purpose of making sauerkraut. : 3–5 This track is now used by the Canadian Pacific Railway as the C&M Subdivision. Paul Railway (Milwaukee Road) laid tracks through the area and a plat was filed with Racine County. By the 1850s, plank roads were built through the area, and by the 1870s the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Originally occupied by the Potowatomi tribe, the first white settlers in the area then known as Skunk Grove arrived in the 1830s. The population was 1,789 at the 2000 census. Franksville is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

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