by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1908 In 1906 a young teacher from Albion named Arlow Stout set out to make a comprehensive survey of the Indian mounds and village sites around Lake Koshkonong. To assist him, he enlisted the help of Halvor Skavlem, an older man who had lived his...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1883 – 1921 When German-born William Spaeth came to Fort Atkinson in 1883, he immediately began brewing beer, first on the north side of the river near the railroad bridge, and then, in 1886 he began City Brewery on South Water Street just west...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1898 to present This past August, the Army National Guard unit stationed in Fort Atkinson was given a heartfelt sendoff by the citizens of Jefferson County. Unfortunately this was not the first war that called the young men of Fort Atkinson to foreign...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1850s One of the first married women in Wisconsin to own property in her own name was from the Fort Atkinson area. In 1838, Mariette Snell and her husband Erastus came to Fort Atkinson, eventually settling seven miles west of town on Red Cedar Lake in...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 21, 2012 | Historic People
Date in History: 1990 The Lincoln Era Library and Exhibit at the Hoard Museum houses over 1,400 books on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. The great majority of these books come from Jerome Slechta, a Jefferson attorney and Civil War buff who donated his...
