Rumble of history heard in Wisconsin – Westerly road, the Yellowstone Trail, now seen as a route to draw tourists Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI) – Tuesday, September 3, 2002 Author: DON BEHM, Journal Sentinel staff One of the nation’s first cross-country auto roads, the Yellowstone Trail, is Wisconsin’s version of Route 66 and has as much potential to attract tourists… Read more »
Wisconsin State Road (Highway) 74 Compiled, transcribed, with notes added by Michael R. Reilly Updated 05/01/2005 Looking for history of Highway 74; pleasesend information to website Editor, see below. State trunk 74, between Merton and NorthLake, a distance of five miles, under contract by the Morris Martin company. A stretch of six miles (74?) from MenomoneeFalls… Read more »
The Asphalt Rebellion – Area residents fighting Highway 164 widening project are part of an increasingly vocal movement nationwide challenging road plans that threaten their way of life – For foes, plan isn’t progress, it’s destruction Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Tuesday, November 16, 1999 Author: LARRY SANDLER, Journal Sentinel staff Standing on the farm where he grew up, David Rankin… 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 »
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 »
SussexProhibition Club W. C. T. U. Transcribed by Michael R. Reilly Updated 04/01/2014 A temperance lecture will be given at the Town Hall, Sussex, onWednesday evening, Feb. 15th, under the direction of the W. C. T. U. WaukeshaFreeman, Thursday, February 9, 1888 [Note: TheWoman’s Christian Temperance Union (W. C. T. U.) was organized in 1874 by womenwho were concerned about… Read more »
The Community of Duplainville Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/03/2005 Note: Duplainville is part ofthe Town of Pewaukee to the south but is an integral part of the Sussex-Lisbon area history and influence. (Note: see Duplainvillehome page on the internet) Pewaukee Area Historical Society Web Site Duplainville, Wisconsin, anunincorporated community within the… Read more »
Christmas Christmases Past by Kim Cole and Emmie Mayer (Stories of Madeline T. Lembke) (This is one of a series of local histories complied andwritten by Arrowhead High School students under the direct of their teacherDavid Waltry. The Backroads series is the title of three books publishedby the students over between 1986 – 1989. Their project received an award fromthe… Read more »
Farmings great days in Lisbon, Sussex and Colgate have passed. Only a whisper remains of what they were from the 1840s to the 1960s. The cows are down to just a few herds, and what farmland is left is cash cropped (rented out), awaiting a developer to snatch it up. From just the 1950s to today, Sussexs 46 barns dwindled… Read more »
Humor in Sussex-Lisbon by Fred H. Keller, Historian Posted: Retrospect, Living Sussex Sun, Oct. 5, 2010 Maybe the word, humor, is the wrong word. Maybe it should be “something different,” or a whole bunch of other words such as, comedy, jesting, facetiousness, fun, banter, jolliness, amusing, diverting, droll, unusual, odd or even suspicious should be used for a series of… Read more »
