Pages From The Past Written by Fred H. Keller, Month of April 1995 Transcribed from Sussex Sun by Hanna Mahuta, March 4, 2010 Tuesday, April 4, 1995 pg 33 100 years ago this week Scott Emulsion was labled as a cure for consumption. The wasting can be eliminated and the lungs healed, the ad read. The Sussex… Read more »
Fred H. Keller | Retrospect Village Historian Headlines from Sussex-Lisbon in 1900 Posted: Living Sussex Sun, Nov. 8, 2011 12:24 p.m. The year 1900 was lead by U.S. President William McKinley with Spanish-American War hero Theodore Roosevelt as the vice president. In 1900, Hawaii became part of the United States andEdward Scofield was the governor of Wisconsin. Locally, the population… Read more »
Retrospect: Sussex-Lisbon-Lannon, 30 years ago Photos from the collection of Sussex Village Historian Fred H. Keller by Fred H. Keller Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Jan. 19, 2010 12:00 p.m. What happened 30 years ago was a generation ago. The funny thing in Lisbon was that just before the year turned to 1979, the young punks got handy and rearranged the… Read more »
Pages From The Past Written by Fred H. Keller, Month of February 1995 Transcribed from Sussex Sun by Hanna Mahuta, March 1, 2010 Tuesday, Feb 7, 1995 pg 12 100 years ago this week Lisbon resident Mr. Ninmitz has been to Milwaukee to sell a quantity of homemade wine. Many Lisbon residents used the Wisconsin Central Railroad… Read more »
*Though not the first in the United States, the Lisbon Plank road was the first built in what was then the Territory of Wisconsin, two years later the state of. read below: On July 18, 1846, the United States’ firstplank road opened in North Syracuse, New York, primarily for salt transportation. The road cost $23,000, was 16-1/2 miles long and… Read more »
Winter snowfall reaches 57 inches more to come The Sussex Wastewater Plant’s weather station reported nearly 53 inches of snow during December and January. By FRED H. KELLER Sussex Sun, Posted: Feb. 5, 2008 The Sussex Wastewater Plant’s weather station reported nearly 53 inches of snow during December and January. December had 16 days totaling nearly 38 inches of… Read more »
Interurban Railway Compiled and transcribed by Michael R. Reilly updated 03/07/2005 Sussex and town of Lisbon residents may havelost out to a tremendous opportunity, if the interurban railway had become areality. Why the lack of interest, as mentioned below? Selfish interests, lackof funding, or ? The interurban railway could have been a new and modern way oflife for… Read more »
Tempero Tells of IndianTrail In Town of Lisbon by Charles J. Tempero Printed under “The CountyHeritage” column in the Waukesha Freeman, Feb. 23, 1938 Transcribed by Michael R. Reilly updated 06/24/2013 In 1885 my father moved ontothe farm on which I now live, NW 1/4 Section 34, Town of Lisbon. I was then alad of 11 years and… Read more »
Retrospect: Daring young flyers built their own airfields in Sussex by Fred H. Keller, Sussex Village Historian Sussex Sun, Posted: Oct. 8, 2008 The Wright bros. introduced the world to airplanes. Waukesha County entered the airplane age with its own airfields and aviators, as recounted in “The History of Aviation in Waukesha County.” The Wright brothers and World… Read more »
Aero Park Airfield / Airport Home to Civil Air Patrol and a Glider School Lady Lisa Michalak HAPPY BIRTHDAY……..plus I used to live at Aero park, my Great-Grandma owned it. And I lived there while my dad ran it. I have lots of stories…. Cap’n Mike Reilly Aero Park Airfield, closed Dec 2004, was located near Lannon &… Read more »