by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1850s The Octagon House in Watertown was built in the 1850s by pioneer settler John Richards. Richards had come to Wisconsin from Massachusetts in 1837 and ran a mill and farm on 140 acres along the Rock River in Watertown. In 1849 he returned to...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 20th Century Though you might not think of Fort Atkinson as a ski destination, we once did boast our very own ski hill. When Karl and Marilla Fuge moved to Fort in 1946 they bought some hilly land about 1 mile north off of Hwy 89. The Fuges soon met...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1970s & 1980s The National Dairy Shrine was organized in Iowa in 1949 as a way to honor dairy leaders and pioneers, to record the history of the dairy industry, and to promote its products. In 1973 the Shrine decided to move its home from Waterloo...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1940s The Mary Hoard Art Show, which opens at the Hoard Museum this Sunday, is being sponsored by NASCO International of Fort Atkinson. NASCO – or the National Agricultural Supply Company – started here in 1941 when Norman Eckley, a Fort...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1920’s The Fort Atkinson Municipal Building, dedicated this week in 1929, was born in controversy. In the 1920s, Mayor William Weld, decided that it was about time that the city had a real city hall instead of renting rooms around town. He...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1832 Did Abraham Lincoln really sleep here in Jefferson County? He sure did. In the spring of 1832 Abraham Lincoln was a 23-year-old clerk working in a small store in New Salem, Illinois. When the Black Hawk War broke out, Lincoln joined the Illinois...
