by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1893-1919 Over the years every Fort Atkinson High School graduating class has adopted a class motto. One can only wonder what the parents and school administrators thought of the student’s choice in 1893 – “Behold! We Know Not...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1930 During the 1920s, Fort Atkinson endured a bitter dispute when the mayor pushed through a plan to sell the city-owned gas and electric utilities to finance a new city hall. After the controversial municipal building opened in 1929, petitions began...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1929 In 1929, citizens of Fort Atkinson petitioned to change their local government from the Mayor system to a new form of government that only a few communities in the nation had then adopted – the city-manager system. In this new system, a...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1856 There was a lot of excitement in Fort Atkinson in 1856. The Chicago-St. Paul-Fond du Lac Railroad Company had built a line from Chicago to Janesville and another one from Fond du Lac to Watertown. All that was left was to link Janesville and...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: N/A Wooden butter moulds, once used in old dairy farm kitchens, are now very popular collectibles. Many of these moulds had a one-of-a-kind, hand-carved design that left an attractive decorative print after the butter was pressed into the mould....
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1931 In early 1931, the Jefferson County Union noted that the ten young ladies who composed the Fort Atkinson Blues Broom Hockey Squad were “the happiest group of feminettes in the land.” Apparently since they had taken up the new winter...
