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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Saw Mill History Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 04/26/2006 Prairieville, June 18th, 1841 N. B. Cash and the highest price paid for good Winter Wheat, delivered at my store or the mill formerly known as the Clinton Mill, now as the Globe Mills, where custom work will be done at short notice in Saw and… Read more »
Schroeder’s Implement Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/03/2009 When Schroeder’s was just a farm. Looking west from present day Highway 74 and Main St. c 1900. Source: Recollections from the Past: Sussex, Wisconsin, Presented by Farmers & Merchants Bank, August 4, 1972 A later photo as a tractor implement business in 1972 Source: Recollections from the… Read more »
Telephone Service Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 09/28/2012 The history of telephoneservice in the Sussex – Lisbon area is just starting to be developed, if youhave pictures or memories you’d like to share please feel free to contact thissite’s webmaster, see below for email address. The chronological entries below are all credited to TheWaukesha… Read more »
Occupations of Early Town of Lisbon and Village of Sussex Residents: 1850 – 1860 Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Updated 06/02/2005 The first Federal Census thatlisted residents occupations was the 1850. For the town of Lisbon the primarywork performed was that of farming, if you weren’t a farmer, you were a farmlaborer, or you were a… Read more »
Occupations of Early Town of Lisbon and Village of Sussex Residents: 1870 – 1880 Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Updated 06/11/2005 The first Federal Census that listed residents occupations was the 1850. For the town of Lisbon the primary work performed was that of farming, if you weren’t a farmer, you were a farm laborer, or… Read more »
