Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc. (Please print this page) Membership & Annual Dues Statement NAME:____________________________________________STUDENT/TEACHER/LIBRARIAN:_______________________________ ADDRESS:_________________________________________GRADE LEVEL/CLASS-COURSE TAUGHT:______________________ CITY/STATE/ZIP:___________________________________SCHOOL/LIBRARY:__________________________________________ TELEPHONE:_______________________________________ EMAIL:____________________________________________[Required for Newsletters/Updates] Membership categories: Regular Category [Voting Privilege]* Amount (per year Jan. 1 thru Dec. 31) Check (X) one Individual $15.00 _____ Circle one > Hardcopy or Email Newsletter Senior (65 & over) $10.00 _____ Circle one > Hardcopy or Email… Read more »
Wisconsin State HistoricalSociety Resources Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 08/15/2015 Online Exhibits, Resources and Collections Wisconsin Electronic Reader Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history. A cooperative digital imaging project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the Wisconsin Historical Society. John Nolen’s Madison: A Model City An imaging project of… Read more »
Index to Town of Lisbon History by Section Below are some examples from Garret Vliet field book as reported back to the General Surveyor. Note that Section 25 ismarked with a large area of “prairie”. This is the location where Thomas Spencer Redford and his father’s family choose to settle. With open land readily available, it must have made clearing… Read more »
Do you have a good triviaquestion you’d like to see listed here? Send your question and answer (has to beabout our local area) by email to the webmaster (see below). Q2. Where is the geographic center of the Town of Lisbon? Q3. What is the straightest road that crosses the Town ofLisbon from one side to the other? Q4…. Read more »
Willow Spring SchoolHistory Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly Updated 01/03/2006 Original Willow Spring stone schoolhouse – torn down in 1926 The Last Class atWillow Springs? New School for WillowSpring in Menomonee Construction to Begin soon. School Will then BecomeState Graded. Menomonee – Recently 105 of the voters of Willow Spring district in thistownship authorized the… Read more »
Sussex Main Street School by Fred H.Keller, Sussex Village Historian, Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Oct. 6, 2009 12:50 p.m. Sussex Grade School, photo by Montgomery, Hartford, Wis. Postmark dated 1913. Mailed to Canby, Oregon. This school was destroyed by fire in 1921. A wrinkled, folded multi-class photo recently turned up mistakenly identified with a date of “about 1938,” but in… Read more »
Lisbon Township (Sussex), District No. 10 Graded School South St. (Maple Ave.) and Main St. Transcribed and Edited by Michael R. Reilly 9/17/2007 Updated 09/16/2007 The first school was organized in 1849 for Lisbon Township School DistrictNo. 10. A special meeting was held November 27, 1849 to get the ball rolling on the new school. By June 1,… Read more »
Sussex Graded School History transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly, Editor Updated 08/08/2009 History of School Revealed at New Building Dedication by Mrs. Ray Podolske Menomonee Falls News, September 1952 A fascinating history of early Sussex schools was unfolded as 200 persons assembled Tuesday night, September 23, for the dedication of the new $115,000 brick veneer solid… Read more »
Lisbon District No. 10 School History Compiled and Editedby Mike Reilly, January 2, 2006 Last updated 01/02/2006 Lisbon: School District No. 10 – Annette C. Purdy,Teacher/ 43 scholars. No schoolhouse site to speak of. The 27(?) x 9 house islocated on the street, bounded on the north by a blacksmith shop; on the east bya barnyard dog kennel; and… Read more »
Nineteen years ago on Aug. 12, 1990, about 200 people attended the all-school reunion of the very first Town of Lisbon school, Lisbon Plank Road School that opened in 1841, (possibly 1839), and close in June 1951. Back then, there were approximately 110 to 125 alumni of the stone, one-room school house that today is a stone museum at Halquist… Read more »
