Lake Five Mobil Lake Five Mobil (northwest corner Hwy 164 and County Line Q) looking northeast December 1, 2009
PDQ PDQ (southwest corner Silver Spring Rd. and Lake Five Rd.) looking south December 1, 2009
Templeton souvenir returns after 50 years by Fred H. Keller, Village Historian Posted: Apr. 14, 2009 1:04 p.m. Living Sussex Sun The Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society Museum recently received a historical artifact from Carol Bolin of Manchester, Ky. About two years ago she called me, the museum curator, after reading about our display of Kewpie products and accessories from the… Read more »
About a century ago, local farmers started taking their sweet peas to a new canning business on Milwaukee Avenue (today’s Silver Spring Road), the Waukesha Canning Co., which opened a pea vinery about 1908-12. The vinery station was just east of Sussex Creek in the valley adjacent to today’s BP Petro Pantry on a flat piece of land that is… Read more »
Stories from the stone creamery on Champeny By Fred Keller Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Dec. 22, 2009 On the northwest corner of Champeny Drive and Maple Avenue stands a stone building that has been called the “Cheese Factory,” the “Sussex Alamo,” the “Old Champeny Creamery,” and “The Lisbon Co-operative Creamery.” The name Cheese Factory is completely wrong because it was… Read more »
Champeny Creamery Explosion Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 11/29/2005 Also read Creamery Business History Killed In Creamery Separator in Menomonee Bursts With Fatal Results Three Men Meet Death. Edward Wirth and James Pyburn Torn to Pieces. William Butler, Jr. Dies From Injuries A terrible accident occurred at the Lisbon Creamery in the town of Menomonee… Read more »
Dentist goes from colonel to cavities By Jenna Kleist , Staff Writer Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Aug. 18, 2009 Sussex Dental’s Mark Waller has once again returned from the army after serving as an officer in charge of the Dental Readiness Center at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin for soldiers who are coming home and going to service overseas. Since returning… Read more »
Elevator and Feed Mill History Transcribed and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/03/2009 A Look Back at the Sussex Mills of Old: Sussex Mills a Fixture of Area’s History by Fred H. Keller, published, Sussex Sun,November 30, 1999 With the coming of theMilwaukee, Menomonee Falls and Western Railroad in 1890, sussex Elevator was theend of the… 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 »
Hop Growing History in Lisbon, Waukesha County, and Wisconsin Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 05/03/2009 Note: Additional non-Wisconsin material supplemented to provide insight into hop growing industry. Why would James Weaver have brought hop plant roots to Lisbon in 1837? The first brewery in the area wasn’t started until 1840 in Milwaukee (see below)…. Read more »