by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1920s – 1980 The Haven Motel with its adobe cabins sits south of Fort Atkinson on highway 12 on the way to Whitewater. Built in the late 1920s by the Lein family, it was originally called Lein’s Cabins and advertised as the only motel between...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1920 The large building at the corner of North Main and Sherman Avenue, known by most of us as the Hartel Building, was actually built by the Creamery Package Company in 1920. At that time, Creamery Package – a maker of dairy and food processing...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1960s The replica of Fort Koshkonong out in Rock River Park in Fort Atkinson was built in the late 1960s by a group of civic-minded citizens who believed that the only town in Wisconsin to be named after a Fort should actually have one. Led by Gus...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1940 to present Fort Community Credit Union, now headquartered at 800 Madison Ave in Fort Atkinson, began back in 1940 as a small credit union for the employees of Moe Light, a business that was located in the Oak Street industrial park where Five...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1946 In 1946 the city of Fort Atkinson rented 120 acres just two miles north of town for a grass field airport. The landowner was Ray Gardinier, an airport advocate who looked forward to the day when “tree-ripened California fruit will be at our...
