Acuity Insurance
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Acuity Insurance is an insurance company with headquarters in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The company is listed as the 80th largest insurer in the United States. [1]
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[edit] Company history
The company began as the Mutual Auto Insurance Company of the Town of Herman in 1925 (in the unincorporated village of Franklin in Sheboygan County). The name was changed to Mutual Auto of Wisconsin in 1953, and Heritage Mutual Insurance Company. in 1957. The company moved to the city of Sheboygan in 1960, and to its current location in 1984. The company became know as Acuity Insurance in 2001.
[edit] Flag
Acuity raised the tallest flagpole in the United States on July 2, 2005. The steel pole is 338 feet high, 6 feet wide at the base, weighs 65 tons (without the flag), and is sunk into a 550-ton block of concrete that is 40 feet deep, 8 feet wide and reinforced by steel rods. The flag is 120 feet by 60 feet, or 7,200 square feet. Each star is 4 feet high and each stripe is 4 1/2 feet wide. It weighs 300 pounds. [2] This flag and flagpole outdid an earlier Acuity record, a flag raised June 2, 2003, atop a 150 foot flagpole. Oddly enough, the new flagpole is actually a replacement; the old pole toppled over due to stress and high winds, almost falling onto nearby Interstate 43. The new flagpole is designed with extra bracing and placed much farther from the highway. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Acuity Facts sheet, Acuity Insurance, June 2, 2006.
- ^ LaRose, Eric. "Acuity raises Old Glory Atop tallest flagpole in the nation", The Sheboygan Press, 2005-04-02.
- ^ Acuity Raises Largest Symbol of Freedom in Wisconsin. Acuity.
