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Andrews was a co-founder of Mukwonago who came from Vermont in 1836 to open a store and serve as a civic leader. In 1842 he built this modest but elegant Greek Revival home, one of the first brick homes in Waukesha County. [6] [7] Now a museum. [8] 2: Arcadian Bottling Works: Arcadian Bottling Works: October 28, 1983 : 900 North Hartwell Avenue
Waukesha: 157 69 Waupaca: 27 70 Waushara: 3 71 Winnebago: 93 72 Wood: 22 (duplicates) (4) [3] Total: 2,623 See also National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 ...
The Randall house (1857/c. 1890), 120 McCall St., was once the home of Alexander Randall, former governor of Wisconsin. [ 2 ] The A.S. Putney House (1878), 123 McCall St, is a 2-story house which has been added to eclectically over the years, combining asymmetric massing, steep gables, and bargeboards from Queen Anne style with a veranda ...
The 34-year-old man from Waukesha was pronounced dead at the scene by rescue workers shortly after the incident, which was reported to the Racine County Communications Center at 9:53 a.m ...
Tim Cahill, adventure travel writer; Gordon Keith Chalmers, scholar; John Thomas Curtis, ecologist; David J. Eicher, editor and author; Margo Huston, reporter who won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
The town was renamed in 1847, soon after the new Waukesha County was created from the western portion of Milwaukee County. On January 10, 1852, the settled area once known as Prairieville was separated from the Town of Waukesha, and incorporated as the village (later the city) of Waukesha. The remainder of the town continued to bear the name as ...
It was his capital and enterprise that laid the foundation for Waukesha as a famous Wisconsin watering resort and he was the proprietor of the grand resort, the Fountain Spring House. Waukesha was once known for its extremely clean and good-tasting spring water and was called a "spa town." This earned the city the nicknames, "Spring City," and ...
Shoemaker received a large number of awards for his professional work. According to the obituary published by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, these included: [1] Doctorate of Science, Arizona State College, Flagstaff, 1965. John Price Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, co-recipient with E.C.T. Chao, 1965. Arthur S. Flemming Award ...