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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27GV_theodore-rietz-distillery_Random-Lake-WI.html
In 1860 Theodore Rietz, at age 30, left Saxony, Germany for the United States. Soon thereafter he helped found the Went & Pfile Distillery Company in Milwaukee. By 1862 he relocated to Silver Creek and started his own whiskey distilling operation.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSIG_nowack-house_Random-Lake-WI.html
Carl Nowack, an immigrant and Civil War veteran, built a traditional German half-timber farmhouse near the south shore of Random Lake in 1865. The Village of Random Lake grew up around this first residence. In 1998, the Random Lake Historical Soci…