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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14GN_verbeck-residence_West-Bend-WI.html
The United State Government Land Grant transfer to William W. Verbeck took place January 1, 1848.
In the early 1850s a barn and home were constructed.
The residence is a square, two-story brick structure, featuring arched brick frames over e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10CD_schubert-cheese-factory_Slinger-WI.html
The fieldstone and timber Schubert Cheese Factory was built in 1901 with two-foot thick walls. The majority of the structure was built into the hill to serve as a cooling cellar for aging cheese. The front of the building was used for processing o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10CC_winter-farm_Slinger-WI.html
The first entry in County Records indicates 160 acres of land, located in the NE 1/4 of Section 17, Town 10 North, Range 14 East, was purchased by Lorentz Guthe and his wife, Elizabeth, on July 7, 1846, for $200, Receipt #23242. Johann Wendel Hass…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10CB_allenton-iron-bridge_Allenton-WI.html
After purchasing the bridge from the Milwaukee Bridge and Iron Works for $796, it was constructed by local men in 1896. The bridge was the main access to Allenton from the west until a larger concrete bridge was built by the State in 1920. Local v…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM101G_the-livery_Germantown-WI.html
This 1885 stone and log structure, built by the Dhein family, has 24-inch wide fieldstone walls and hand-hewn beams. The Livery serviced farmers and travelers with horses, wagons, and tack.
The centennial barn, featuring the Gold Medal Flour si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM101F_boltonville-church_Kewaskum-WI.html
Yankee settlers organized the Free Will Baptist Society of Boltonville on February 22, 1872, and built this church which was dedicated June 3, 1873, at a cost of $2,103.80. In the 1880s, the building was home for a Sunday school for as many as 80 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIU_st-peters-church_West-Bend-WI.html
St. Peter's Catholic Church was established in 1846. The first structure was a log church built in 1855. The present structure was built in 1861. The church is an outstanding example of fieldstone construction featuring an unusual half-octagonal a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIT_saxonia-house_Fredonia-WI.html
The Saxonia House, a 72-foot by 32-foot rare example of German fachwerkbau (half-timber construction) architecture, is one of the largest buildings of its kind in Wisconsin. In November 1855 the new structure was christened as a brewery, a residen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIS_backhaus-estate_Kewaskum-WI.html
The Backhaus Family emigrated from Prussia to America in 1850 and purchased this 135-acre farm, parcel by parcel, from 1853-1864. They lived in an unfinished log cabin that has long since been replaced by this Victorian, 3-story cream city brick r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIQ_boltonville-mill_Kewaskum-WI.html
Harlow Bolton formed a partnership with Asa Varney and William H. Willis in 1853 to build the mill, along with a mill pond. The mill, known for many years as the Reliance Roller Mills, was the first business in Boltonville, built in 1854.
Wheat…