Sussex YMCA By Kelly Smith Posted: May 20, 2014,Living Sussex Sun Sussex A 75,000-square-foot YMCA facility and a new, 45,000-square-foot civic center may be built on the existing municipal government campus on Main Street at an estimated cost of $14 million to village taxpayers, according to a tentative development partnership between the Village of Sussex and the YMCA of… Read more »
Sussex Estates remains friendly place in the `country’ – Built in the early 1960s, subdivision is still home to some early residents Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Sunday, June 15, 1997 Readability:10-12 grade level (Lexile: 1160L) Author: KRIS RADISH ; Special to the Journal Sentinel When Mardene and Norman Waldhauser bought their ranch home in the Sussex Estates subdivision in 1962,… Read more »
History on the demise of the mighty elm tree by Fred H. Keller Posted: Living Sussex, Sun, Aug. 10, 2010 A pages past article in the July 28 Sussex Sun told of two cases of Dutch Elm disease being reported in Menomonee Falls during the month of July in 1960. “This brings the total to 20 in Waukesha County. American… Read more »
The Postal System in the Wisconsin Territory: Early Milwaukee County; Waukesha County and the Sussex-Lisbon Area by Mike Reilly, Editor, January 17, 2004, Revised 09/16/2007 also see Post Offices, Postmasters, Mail Carriers and Mail Delivery History for Sussex, Lisbon, Lake Five, Colgate, Templeton and Lannon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin and Postal Finder lists postmasters of other nearby communities While… Read more »
United States Postal History Time line source: http://www.usps.com/history/his1.htm Information courtesy of the United States Postal Service Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 also see Post Offices, Postmasters, Mail Carriers and Mail Delivery History for Sussex, Lisbon, Lake Five, Colgate, Templeton and Lannon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin 1639- Richard Fairbanks’ tavern in Boston namedrepository for overseas mail 1775-… Read more »
Post Offices, Postmasters, Mail Carriers and Mail DeliveryHistory for Sussex, Lisbon, Lake Five, Colgate, Templeton, and Lannon, Waukesha County,Wisconsin by Mike Reilly, Editor, January 8, 2004,Revised 09/16/2007 also see The Postal System in the Wisconsin Territory: Early Milwaukee County; Waukesha County and the Sussex-Lisbon Area 1911 – Unknown Men, possibly railroad employees Backside of above postcard Lisbon Post Office… Read more »
Postmaster Finder Postmasters by City Source: http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt002.cfm Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 MERTON POST OFFICE WAUKESHA COUNTY, WISCONSIN Name Title Date Appointed William Odell Postmaster 09/13/1847 Henry Shears Postmaster 03/22/1849 Addison J. Dibell Postmaster 12/04/1849 Edward Hackett Postmaster 05/11/1853 James M. Gavett Postmaster 10/10/1857 Thomas Mayhew Postmaster 03/29/1861 Francis Vaughan Postmaster 09/28/1866 Eli Eastman… Read more »
Land Patentees of Township 8 North, Range 19East of the 4th Principal Meridian “Town of Lisbon, Waukesha County,Wisconsin” Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 05/06/2014 ImageAccessionNamesDateDoc #StateMeridianTwp – RngAliquotsSec. #CountyWI2770__.311AINSWORTH, SILAS8/1/184615403WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019ESE¼NW¼30WaukeshaWI3140__.357AINSWORTH, SILAS3/1/185034146WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019EW½NW¼30WaukeshaWI2690__.203ANDREWS, JOHN9/10/184411255WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019ENW¼5WaukeshaWI2640__.143BACON, RALPH3/3/18438738WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019EE½SE¼5WaukeshaWI2770__.391BARROWS, WILLIS8/1/184615483WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019ENE¼NW¼4WaukeshaWI2630__.281BEARDSLEY, REUBEN3/3/18438372WI4th PM – 1831 MN/WI008N – 019EW½SE¼5WaukeshaWI2660__.430BLACK,… Read more »
Sussex Antique Power Association, Inc. formerly the The Early Day Gas Engine & Tractor Association The start of antique engine show Event that dates back to 1960s By Fred Keller Posted: Living Sussex Sun, Aug. 17, 2010 ]]> PAST SHOWING – Allen Nettesheim operated an Eclipse Steam Engine being hooked up to a log sawing machine at the 2009 show. Village… Read more »
Sussex Prohibition Club W. C. T. U. Transcribed by Michael R. Reilly Updated 05/01/2014 Two months before David Bonham’s ad appears for his “public house. or house of entertainment”, the people in Milwaukee form a Temperance Society: “At a meeting of the friends of the Temperance Reform Reform, held of the court-house, in Milwaukee, on Monday evening, January 9, 1837,… Read more »
