by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1940 to present Fort Community Credit Union, now headquartered at 800 Madison Ave in Fort Atkinson, began back in 1940 as a small credit union for the employees of Moe Light, a business that was located in the Oak Street industrial park where Five...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1946 In 1946 the city of Fort Atkinson rented 120 acres just two miles north of town for a grass field airport. The landowner was Ray Gardinier, an airport advocate who looked forward to the day when “tree-ripened California fruit will be at our...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: c. 1900 With plans now afoot to redo historic Sherman Avenue in Fort Atkinson, an effort is being made to minimize the impact on this beautiful street. It’s not just a matter of saving trees but of preserving the historic setting for the impressive...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1898 to 1967 In 1898, the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company of Chicago came to Fort Atkinson, buying our city’s thriving creamery equipment manufacturer, Cornish Curtis & Greene located on North Main Street. Over the next few years the...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: N/A In Elba township in Dodge County there is a 150-year-old resting place named Okeeg Cemetery. According to local tradition the unusual name of “Okeeg ” was the Indian name of the nearby Crawfish River. This tale is supported by an old...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1830s One of the founders of the village of Cold Spring was Abram Brink, who settled on Whitewater Creek in 1838 opposite a spring of pure cold water – so cold in fact as to entitle it to the name of Cold Spring. Brink was a one-man dynamo,...
