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Cedarburg Winter Festival in Cedarburg
Cedarburg Winter Festival is a February celebration in the historic downtown district of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, built around cold-weather activities including ice carving and cardboard boat or sled races staged on the frozen Cedar Creek. Set against the city's preserved nineteenth-century mill architecture, the festival gives Cedarburg's tourism calendar an active winter counterpart to its summer and fall events.
Cedarburg's historic Cedar Creek Settlement was built around a nineteenth-century woolen mill that depended on the power of Cedar Creek running through the district, and the Winter Festival finds a clever way to keep that same waterway central to the town's identity even after it freezes solid each February.