Wisconsin State HistoricalSociety Resources Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly Last Revised 08/15/2015 Online Exhibits, Resources and Collections Wisconsin Electronic Reader Stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals and tidbits from Wisconsin history. A cooperative digital imaging project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the Wisconsin Historical Society. John Nolen’s Madison: A Model City An imaging project of… Read more »
Index to Town of Lisbon History by Section Below are some examples from Garret Vliet field book as reported back to the General Surveyor. Note that Section 25 ismarked with a large area of “prairie”. This is the location where Thomas Spencer Redford and his father’s family choose to settle. With open land readily available, it must have made clearing… Read more »
Do you have a good triviaquestion you’d like to see listed here? Send your question and answer (has to beabout our local area) by email to the webmaster (see below). Q2. Where is the geographic center of the Town of Lisbon? Q3. What is the straightest road that crosses the Town ofLisbon from one side to the other? Q4…. Read more »
Willow Spring SchoolHistory Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly Updated 01/03/2006 Original Willow Spring stone schoolhouse – torn down in 1926 The Last Class atWillow Springs? New School for WillowSpring in Menomonee Construction to Begin soon. School Will then BecomeState Graded. Menomonee – Recently 105 of the voters of Willow Spring district in thistownship authorized the… Read more »
Lisbon Township (Sussex), District No. 10 Graded School South St. (Maple Ave.) and Main St. Transcribed and Edited by Michael R. Reilly 9/17/2007 Updated 09/16/2007 The first school was organized in 1849 for Lisbon Township School DistrictNo. 10. A special meeting was held November 27, 1849 to get the ball rolling on the new school. By June 1,… Read more »
Sussex Main Street School by Fred H.Keller, Sussex Village Historian, Living Sussex Sun, Posted: Oct. 6, 2009 12:50 p.m. Sussex Grade School, photo by Montgomery, Hartford, Wis. Postmark dated 1913. Mailed to Canby, Oregon. This school was destroyed by fire in 1921. A wrinkled, folded multi-class photo recently turned up mistakenly identified with a date of “about 1938,” but in… Read more »
Sussex Graded School History transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly, Editor Updated 08/08/2009 History of School Revealed at New Building Dedication by Mrs. Ray Podolske Menomonee Falls News, September 1952 A fascinating history of early Sussex schools was unfolded as 200 persons assembled Tuesday night, September 23, for the dedication of the new $115,000 brick veneer solid… Read more »
Lake Five Elementary, Lisbon District #3 Lake Five had a school house to cover a big enough area to serve enough children who needed schooling, plus the tax base to support a “free school.” The school which resulted was Lisbon No.3 School, a log cabin building organized in 1843. The initial class ranged from ages 4 to 20…. Read more »
Plainview School went through three incarnations By Fred Keller Sussex Sun, Retrospect, Posted: Sept. 24, 2008 Lisbon No. 4 School, known since 1920 as Plainview School, held an all-classes reunion Aug. 10 at the old Robert Bartlett farm, now the spacious Lisbon Community Park. The school opened in 1844 and closed in 1965. During that time, three buildings hosted the… Read more »
Nineteen years ago on Aug. 12, 1990, about 200 people attended the all-school reunion of the very first Town of Lisbon school, Lisbon Plank Road School that opened in 1841, (possibly 1839), and close in June 1951. Back then, there were approximately 110 to 125 alumni of the stone, one-room school house that today is a stone museum at Halquist… Read more »
