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...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1895 to 1967 Most of us think of margarine as yellow, but actually that’s a fairly recent development. In 1895 the Wisconsin Legislative passed a law declaring that oleo, or margarine, purchased in Wisconsin was not allowed to have yellow coloring...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: January 1906 In January of 1906, a spectacular nighttime fire completely destroyed the Northwestern Manufacturing Company in Fort Atkinson, which had been making furniture, wagons and buggies since 1866. Overnight, Fort’s largest industry was wiped...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1885 Quilts have warmed many a winter night and provided an heirloom for generations. In 1885, when the ladies of the Methodist Church in Fort Atkinson created a red and white basket quilt, their purpose was to raise money for the church’s building...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1940s In 1948, when news reached ordinary Americans about the personal hardships that the French continued to suffer in the wake of World War II, American citizens acted, delivery 700 railroad cars of supplies to the people of France. A year later,...
