The Community of Merton- Town and Village see also Lake Keesus of Merton Township and Merton Township Historical Documents Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 04/28/2013 Main St. in Merton circa 1900 Main St. further north by the present day Bug Line The Township of Merton,established in 1839 originally as the Town of Warren. The Village of… Read more »
Lake Keesus of MertonTownship Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 04/28/2013 Hotel Keesus, Lake Keesus, Wis. Card 946 by Jos. F. Seidl of Hartford, Wis. Card is postmarked Merton, Wisconsin Aug 12, 1919 and sent to Mr. Howard Palmer c/o/ Milwaukee Sanitarium, Wauwatosa, Wis. from Hap. Hotel Keesus Dining Room c. 1922 C. 1910 Neumueller’s Cottages, Lake… Read more »
MertonTownship Historical Documents Compiled by Brandon C. Brooks Last Revised 04/28/2013
Maude Brown Kraetsch: Waukesha Freeman Newspaper Correspondent Transcribed by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 01/15/2014 Help Represent Your Community… Do You Know Your Waukesha Daily Freeman Correspondent? Sussex – Not too far from Menomonee Falls and Lannon and a short distance from Pewaukee lies an area rich in stone quarries named after a county in England. The village of Sussex… Read more »
A game of base ball between the Experts, of Hartland, and Greenhorns, of Merton, in which the former had nine innings and the latter eight, the score was, respectively, 26 and 43. Ignorance was bliss in this instance, sure. source: Waukesha Freeman June 1, 1882, page 1 of 8. The Merton and Sussex baseball teams played here [Merton] on… Read more »
The Towns of Lisbon Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/06/2006 Many Lisbons in the United Stateshttp://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/lisbons.html In contrast to the highly localized distribution of Portuguese-Americans in southern New England and central California, there are at least thirty-seven communities in the United States that bear some form of the name of Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city… Read more »
The Town of Lisbon is a Township of approximately 30 square miles surrounding the Village of Sussex. The Town is generally rural in nature with a 1999 population of over 9,000, but there are some fifty subdivisions and one mobile home park (Willow Springs). Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/17/2014 History (Much of the following… Read more »
Street & Building Scenes in Lannon Now the present day SERENDIPITY’S SHOPPE, N72W20549 W MAIN ST., LANNON WI 53046 (262) 255-3778 “Miller’s Hotel, Lannon, Wis.” Date 1910? The photograph shows an early 20th c. frame hotel that sits at the crossroads of unpaved roads. A horse and buggy is outside the hotel and a man is entering carrying… Read more »
Street & Building Scenes in Lannon About 1905, intersection of Good Hope and Lannon Roads looking west. House on the left was occupied by Postmaster Keith Gissal at one time – after his father lived there and it was rented to Erv Miller and family. The chestnut on the right is where the post office stands today. Present day… Read more »
Lannon and its quarries By Ruth Schmidt A man, in his retirement years, stood on thefront porch of his home in the little village of Lannon and looked down LannonRoad. “Five of the stone houses on this street originally stood in StoneCity at the Hadfield quarry,” he mused. “There are ten more on VineStreet, and at least four on… Read more »
