Stephen Stone Tavern aka
Boots’ Tavern, and
Peace & Plenty Saloon
Note: Most of the Sussex Brewerys sales went through the Boots-owned tavern that stood where Sussex Auto, N64 W23936 Main St., is today. In August 1857 it was called the Stone Tavern.
Note: A Democratic Assembley District convention…will be held at the Stone Tavern, in the town of Lisbon… Source: Waukesha County Democrat | Waukesha, Wisconsin | Wednesday, August 19, 1857 | Page 2; also listed same in 1859.
There was a Fred G. Boots, probably a relative, who had a mini saloon on Main Street in Sussex where today Strobel’s Sussex Auto is located. In time, this became too small and Fred Boots built a multi-story saloon and home across Main Street where the parking lot sits for Tony Maroni’s Pizza today. The name of the saloon was Boot’s Saloon and also Peace and Plenty Saloon.
Note: Frederick Grant Boots, b. 1864 in Waukesha County, son of Henry Boots.In 1880 Fed Census, Town of Lisbon, his father was a “Saloon keeper”, and Fred was a “bar tender”.
Source: Ephraim Boots, Sussex Brewery in the 1800s Photos from the collection of Sussex Village Historian Fred H. Keller, Sussex Sun, May 15, 2012