Before being started in Jackson, the origins of the republican party can be traced back to 1854 and the anti-Nebraska movement at a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin, where the name Republican was first thought up. It has its influence from Thomas Jefferson‘s Democratic-Republican Party
Before Waldo Stadium opened up in the fall of 1939, the space sat empty. Long before that, there was a body of water that sat in its place and was used by a brewery company as a local water resource.