Library History – Part 1 Library History- Part 2 Library History Part 3 Library History – Part 4 Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly October 10, 2005, Last Revised 12/17/2014 Early Library History:Milwaukee County The first library was createdin 1848 by the Young Men’s (Literary) Association formed the preceding year. Itwas located in a single leased room on… Read more »
Cliff Loker, a seventh-grade student at Templeton Middle School, helped break a record Dec. 14 when he checked out the 200,000th item at the Pauline Haass Public Library in 1998. That’s a one-year record for the 10-year-old library. The library opened in January 1988 in the former Orchard Drive School in Sussex and moved into a new building just to… Read more »
Sheriff substation architect hired The Village Board voted unanimously last Tuesday to hire Yaggy Colby architects to design the new Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department substation addition to the Sussex Fire Station on Main Street. By LAURA DRITLEIN Living Sussex Sun, Posted: March 4, 2008 The Village Board voted unanimously last Tuesday to hire Yaggy Colby architects to design the new… Read more »
Tales are told of firefighters’ early banquets by Fred H. Keller Posted: May 9, 2014, Living Lake Country Reporter On Jan. 30, 1922, the then-9-year-old Sussex Main Street School caught fire and was totally destroyed, with only four brick walls left standing. In quick order the then-unincorporated village had a special meeting of the Sussex-Templeton Advancement Association and the end… Read more »
Lisbon Fire Department presents 2008 service awards The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with its 2008 Lisbon Fire Department Chief’s Award at the department’s awards dinner Jan. 17 at Fairways of Woodside. Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Jan. 27, 2009 The Fire Department honored two of it firefighters, Matthew Mertens and Jeff Drager, with… Read more »
Fire levels Lannon home Posted: March 17, 2009, Living Sussex Sun Village of Lannon A fire completely destroyed a mobile home in the 20000 block of West Good Hope Road. The three people inside the home are now staying with family members, according to Lannon Fire Chief Gary Georgenson. The heat from Monday’s conflagration also damaged the vinyl siding… Read more »
Merton Baptist Church HistoricAmerican Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record Churchbuilding drawings
Retrospect: Brogan log cabin hosts first Catholic services By FRED KELLER Posted: Apr. 9, 2008, Sussex Sun As settlers arrived in the Towns of Lisbon and Menomonee (Menomonee Falls today), Irish immigrants made the area around Town Line Road an extended Irish and Catholic enclave, extending it eastward eventually to include what is now the Village of Lannon. James Brogan… Read more »
Everyone in the greater Sussex-Lisbon community knows of the annual Sussex Chili Cook-off community event where one can do three things: eat chili to your heart’s content, meet old and new friends, and in the process, raise money for the Sussex food pantry which was created in 1985 by the six Cooperating Churches of Sussex. At this last chili cook-off,… Read more »
Sussex (Lisbon Township) Brewery History by Michael R. Reilly, editor, January 27, 2013, copyright Last updated08/16/2015 The Sussex Brewery at 36 Main Rd Emsworth PO10 8AU, United Kingdom (probably nothing like what our old brewery looked like). “Very many will remember the first turkey-shoot that came off in this town, and very likely the first in the county. In… Read more »
