by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 20th century In 1902 two local nurseries in Fort Atkinson combined to form the Coe, Converse & Edwards Company. Their main office was located on Rockwell Street in the building that now houses Dunsmoor Doors. The huge nursery had well over 220...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1873 – 1919 The site of the new Walgreen’s Drugstore going up at the corner of North Main and North Third Streets in Fort Atkinson used to be the site of Congressman Lucien Caswell’s dramatic 17-room Italianate mansion. Built for Mr. Caswell in...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 19th century Canadian-born Henry Pritchard opened the first commercial brewery in Fort Atkinson in 1850. “Pritchard’s Ale” was produced and bottled in buildings located on the south bank of the Rock River just west of the current Robert...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: Early 20th Century On the northwest corner of South Main Street and Milwaukee Avenue in Fort Atkinson, where the little parking lot for W.D. Hoard & Sons is now, there used to be an old frame building that had been built by Charles Rockwell way...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1908 In 1908 Arthur Hoard founded the Bettersox Knitting Mills in Fort Atkinson, which for more than 50 years was the nation’s largest mail-order hosiery mill. It was located on South Water Street East where the Super 8 Motel now sits. Originally...
by Steve Tesmer | Apr 22, 2012 | Historic Places
Date in History: 1939 The second and current Barrie School on Harriette Street in Fort Atkinson, opened in 1939. The $125,000 project was financed by the school district and by a large grant from the federal government’s Public Works Association or the PWA. The PWA...
