Travel Reference
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The heart of Marathon County, Wausau has become legendary since the late 1980s for
somethingdecidedlyunexpectedfromnorth-centralWisconsin:ginseng.Thecountyisnow
thenation'snumberoneproducerofhigh-quality ginseng,secondworldwide onlytoKorea
in exports. Dairying hasn't completely been replaced, however; Marathon County is still
number one in milk and cheese output (colby cheese got its name from a town in this
county).
