by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1945 The 1945 Plowing Contest was held at the Hetts Farm on the west edge of Fort Atkinson on a fine Friday in October. At 10 a.m. the husking and plowing contests began with both senior and junior divisions being contested. The plowing was judged not...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: c. 1900 In 1883 Pauline Jacobus [jukO’bus] founded the Pauline Pottery Company, the first art pottery company to open in Chicago. Just five years later Jacobus moved her studio to Edgerton, Wisconsin where a high quality white clay was...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: Late 1800’s. Just five hundred years ago, passenger pigeons comprised about 40% of all birds in North America. Literally billions of these birds lived throughout the eastern half of North America. The name “passenger pigeon” comes...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1940s The Retail Committee of the Fort Atkinson Chamber of Commerce met with the city manager to discuss the parking problem downtown. That sounds timely doesn’t it, but actually that meeting took place in June of 1940. The chamber was concerned that...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1850 In 1850 when Increase Lapham published his Antiquities of Wisconsin he documented a remarkable series of Indian mounds that ran along Riverside Drive in Fort Atkinson. At the end of the group was the most interesting one of all – an effigy...
