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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QN_play-ball_Belgium-WI.html
The Lake Shore Ball Park was located in the present-day Point Picnic Area. The company-sponsored ball club hosted, and sometimes trounced, its rivals here. The May 1909 issue of the Port Washington Star tells of one game in which the mighty Lake S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28IM_the-company-store_Belgium-WI.html
Workers bought pasta, tobacco, kegs of wine, and just about everything except beer, at the company store. They bought beer at taverns in Lake Church, Schanens and Grof's, or from Grof's delivery wagon.
On Saturday nights, quarry workers cashed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28II_fire-fire-fire_Belgium-WI.html
Many years ago, when Quarry Lake was a dry rock quarry, the above call alerted the workmen that explosives were about to be detonated. The Lake Shore Stone Company used explosives to break up the rock which they mined from 1900 to 1920. The limest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28IB_about-the-quarry-and-the-limestone_Belgium-WI.html
The depth of the old quarry is about 45 feet, and its area is 23 acres, so you can see that a great quantity of stone was removed from it. Mules pulled rock-filled carts along tracks from various places in the quarry to one central location, a ram…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28I6_destination-and-uses-of-the-limestone_Belgium-WI.html
After the rock was crushed, sorted and washed, it was ready to be shipped. A powerful cable would pull the many rock-laden carts along the pier that was constructed out into Lake Michigan. At the end of the pier, ships would wait for their cargoes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28I5_stone-crusher_Belgium-WI.html
Mules pulled rail cars laden with stone from the quarry and cables hauled them to the crusher, which could handle 1,500 yards of stone each day. Working like an enormous grater, the crusher produced small stones and limestone powder which were car…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GW_stonehaven-housing_Belgium-WI.html
The Lake Shore Stone Company village, Stonehaven, housed quarry workers from Italy, Luxembourg, and Austria. Married employees lived in small 15 by 24-foot houses built on stilts. Two barracks, known as the Italian House and the Austrian House, sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28GD_the-company-town_Belgium-WI.html
From 1901 until 1925, the Lake Shore Stone Company owned the lakefront property that is now part of Harrington Beach State Park and built a company town known as Stonehaven. This house was part of Stonehaven and was occupied by workers of the Lake…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Q4_wisconsins-luxembourgers_Belgium-WI.html
Many of northeastern Ozaukee County's prosperous farms, fieldstone houses and outbuildings, and large village churches are characteristic of the Luxembourg immigrant settlement patterns in the area. Beginning in 1845, inexpensive land brought Luxe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVPB_the-steamer-niagara-the-fiery-end_Belgium-WI.html
Her Saloon is superbly fitted and furnished and the accommodations for steerage passengers on the main deck are unsurpassed.Milwaukee SentinelMay 20, 1846
Between 1844-1857, "palace steamers" ruled Great Lakes transportation. About half of Euro…