Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, June 1, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian 100 yrs ago – June 1, 2011 The annual Memorial Day ceremony noted that the veterans of the Civil War are quickly dying off. A Waukesha County Civil War monument has been ordered at a cost of $4,000 from an Eastern firm. It… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, March 1, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Pages from the Past March 2, 2011 50 years ago – March 2, 1961 The Town of Lisbon had a primary in February as seven filed papers for two Lisbon supervisor seats. They were: Harry Bartlett, Oscar Ward, Robert Smocke, Ervin Schuldt, Will… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, April 6, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: April 5, 2011 100 years ago – April 6, 1911 Henrietta Froeming, a native of Neleb, Scheiselhew, Germany, died at age 79 and was buried at Sunnyside Cemetery. There was a chance that an electric train (mostly for passengers) would run through… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, August 2, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Pages From the Past August 3, 2011 100 years ago – 1911 Eight-year-old John Brown died and was buried at Lisbon Central Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Rowell, own a farm implement manufacturing firm in Menomonee Falls, and have the family farm out… Read more »
Pages from the Past By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: Living Sussex Sun, December 7 , 2011 Pages From the Past December 7, 2011 100 years ago – week of Dec. 7, 1911 August Schultz in Lannon at age 52 has died after eight years of illness the last five bound to his bed. He was born… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, February 1, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Pages from the Past February 2, 2011 100 years ago – Feb. 2, 1911 A week ago, the switch engine on the Bug Line Railroad jumped the track in downtown Menomonee Falls causing train schedules in Lannon and Sussex to get jumbled. The… Read more »
9/11 memorial, Lisbon incorporation top stories of year ByKelly Smith Posted: Living Sussex Sun, Dec. 27, 2011 11:16 a.m. 1The construction of the 9-11 memorial in the Town of Lisbon, built by volunteer trades and crafts workers throughout Southeastern Wisconsin and funded by scores of corporate and individual donations, was the top story in the Sussex Sun during 2011. Newly… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, January 5, 2011 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: Jan. 4, 2011 1:28 p.m. 100 years ago – Jan. 5, 1911 The 1911 Model T Ford is available at the Menomonee Falls J.B. Wittlin Motor Company for $780 for a touring car and $680 for a roadster. The cost of a… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, October 6, 2010 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: Oct. 5, 2010 100 years ago – Oct. 6, 1910 At the beginning of the year 1910, the chairman of the Town of Lisbon was Henry Rhineford, the first Lisbon chairman to be of German extraction. At the April election he was… Read more »
Pages from the Past Posted: Living Sussex Sun, September 3, 2010 By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian Posted: Sept. 21, 2010 100 years ago – Sept. 22, 1910 A lighting storm and high winds destroyed several barns in Pewaukee and Lisbon. In a horrific death, William Busse Jr., just married three months, blew himself up with dynamite placed on the… Read more »
