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Birthplace of the Snowmobile — Vilas County Historical Museum

Sayner, WI

Sayner celebrates Carl Eliason's 1924 motor toboggan, an important ancestor of the modern snowmobile. The local museum preserves early machines and Northwoods history, turning a tiny community into a pilgrimage point for snowmobile enthusiasts.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: vilashistorical.com

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