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Reedsburg: 1905 red brick depot of Chicago and North Western Railway with a Classical Revival entry. [8] At this site in 1873 a crowd of Reedsburg locals protested the deportation of a local Ho-Chunk family to Nebraska. [9] 4: City Hotel: City Hotel
Ramshackle 1-story wooden cheese factory built in 1891. [19] A leader in the dairy industry, Kasper attended the UW dairy school in 1894, switched early to pay for milk based on butterfat rather than volume, helped organize the Wisconsin Cheesemakers' Association, and supposedly won more prizes than any other cheesemaker. [20] 14
Main Street Commercial Historic District is a historic district in Reedsburg, Wisconsin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It was listed alongside the Park Street Historic District. The district consists of 21 commercial buildings. Eighteen of the buildings are brick and three are of stone construction. [2]
Pictured is a worker in 1922 at a New Glarus cheese factory placing a Wisconsin stamp on wheels of cheese. Commercial cheesemaking in Wisconsin dates back to the nineteenth century. Early cheesemaking operations began on farmsteads in the Michigan and Wisconsin territories , with large-scale production starting in the mid-1800s.
In 1984 Ellsworth was named the State's Cheese Curd Capital because of the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. [4] The Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery opened a store in 2010 in Rochester, Minnesota called "The Country Creamery". Similar to the co-op in Ellsworth, the Rochester store sells milk, butter, cheese, and cheese curds. [5]
Maytag Dairy Farms was established in 1941 by Frederick Louis Maytag II and his brother Robert Maytag. The business dates back to 1919, when their father, Elmer Henry Maytag, purchased a single cow to provide milk for his family. [1]
Park Street Historic District is a historic district in Reedsburg, Wisconsin that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It was listed alongside the Main Street Commercial Historic District. It consists of 44 properties located primarily along North Park Street, and surrounding City Park. [2]
The Reedsburg Woolen Mill, long one of the area's largest employers, endured until 1967; most of the mill complex burned in April 1968, leaving only the mill office. [12] In 1951, Herbert Webb left Reedsburg a $300,000 trust fund, which is equivalent to over 4 million dollars, adjusted for inflation.