by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: N/A Everyone probably knows, or has heard of, someone who married themselves right into an unusual name. For instance, in 1919 a young woman named Golden Ward married Fort Atkinson dentist, Dr. Orie Gates and wound up with the bridge-like name of...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1927 In early May 1927, a group of young boys gathered after school to take part in the Fort Atkinson grade school marble tournament. After a number of early rounds, the two marble sharks left standing were William Papke of Caswell School and Roy...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 19th century The oldest street in the city of Fort Atkinson is Main Street. It was originally part of a military road that connected Fort Dearborn in Chicago to Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin. After the first white settlers arrived in the 1830s...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 02/16/1960 On February 16th, 1960 Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie visited Fort Atkinson during the campaign for the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. Kennedy walked up and down both sides of South Main Street, stopping in at each business...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1967 As school gets underway and fall sports commence, we will be hearing more about our favorite school teams. A symbol of school pride is the school mascot and one mascot in Jefferson County has a particularly interesting story. Jefferson High...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Events
Date in History: 1920 Tuesday, September 7th, 1920 was a new day for Jefferson County women as they voted for the first time in their life. The nineteenth amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote had just been ratified on August 18th of that year as Tennessee...
