Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Men pulling vintage fire wagon
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Brodhead Centennial Parade - Flanagan's Men's Wear
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Flanagan's Men's Wear wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Gardner\'s Bread
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Gardner\'s Purity Bread wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Green County Historical Society
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Green County Historical Society wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - man on horse
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - man on horse
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Men in native dress
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Men in native dress
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Men on horses
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Unidentified men on horses
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Monroe chamber
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Monroe Chamber of Commerce.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Navy band.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Newcomer Funeral Home
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Newcomer Funeral Home wagon.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Newman Seed & Feed
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Newman Seed & Feed wagon.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Oak Corner's Dairy Club
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Oak Corner's Dairy Club float
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Oldest Married Couple
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Oldest married couple, Chris & Emma Gempler. They lived in Spring Valley township and were married 67 years when he died in 1960.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Pardeeville band
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Pardeeville band.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Schwake Pharmacy
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Schwake Pharmacy wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Senator Wiley
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - U.S. Senator Alexander Wiley.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Smith\'s Barber Shop
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Smith\'s Barber Shop
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Spring Grove Farmers
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Spring Grove Friendly Farmers float.
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Ties Oil Company
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Ties Oil Company
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Turtle float
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Unidentified turtle float
Brodhead Centennial Parade - unidentified dignitaries
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - unidentified dignitaries
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Unidentified marching band
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Unidentified marching band
Brodhead Centennial Parade - unidentified wagon
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - unidentified wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - unidentified wagon 2
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Unidentified wagon
Brodhead Centennial Parade - unidentified wagon 3
Brodhead Centennial Parade - unknown group
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - unknown group
Brodhead Centennial Parade - VFW Color Guard
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - VFW Color Guard.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - unidentified horse-drawn wagon.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Zor Clowns car
Brodhead Centennial Parade - Zor Marching Band
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956 - Zor Marching Band
Unidentified group on float on Exchange Square, Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Centennial Parade - June 24, 1956, John D. Timm, Driver. Carolyn Pinnow, Queen.
Minor flooding in the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump. The city dump was along side the west bank of the Mill Race bank from Decatur Road to the head gates.
The start of the clean-up of the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
Clean-up of the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump after the DNR mandated that refuse be covered every day.
Clearing of trees and brush at the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
Clean-up and covering of refuse completed at the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
Some of the soil from dredging the Mill Race was used to cover refuse at the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
The Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump along the Mill Race before clean-up.
Minor flooding in the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump. The city dump was along side the west Mill Race bank from Decatur Road to the head gates.
Minor flooding in the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump before clean-up.
Flooding in low lying area along the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump before clean-up.
Clearing of trees at the Brodhead, Wisconsin city dump.
A man standing on the Brodhead, Wisconsin city limits sign.
brodhead cleaners, montgomery, dry cleaning.
The Brodhead Dry Cleaners was a small building on the northwest corner of West Exchange Street and West Second Avenue in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The business was operated by "Laz" Montgomery in the late 1950's and 1960's. The building is no longer there.
The Brodhead Cleaner's building supposedly owned by E. Laz Montgomery in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Brodhead Community Cabin, Putnam Cabin, School District of Brodhead Arboretum, Jo Wagner, Bruce Wagner, Dennis Schwartz, Ted Odell, Mary Odell, Paul Roemer.
The dedication of The Brodhead Community Cabin at the School District of Brodhead Arboretum. The arboretum is located at the intersection of 25th Street and West 5th Avenue in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The cabin was the original Henry Clay Putnam Cabin located on the south shore of Decatur Lake in the Town of Decatur. Bruce and Jo Wagner donated the cabin from their property to the School District. It is used for environmental and educational classes. L-R Jo Wagner, Bruce Wagner, Dennis Schwartz - Brodhead Board of Education President, Ted Odell, Paul Roemer - educator and arboretum caretaker, and Mary Odell. The Odell's are descendants of Henry Clay Putnum.
The Brodhead Creamery was above and along the Race after the spillway from the power plant. The address was along the 12 & 13 hundred block of Eleventh Street. The building no longer exists. This picture is dated 1882. The creamery produced 75,000 pounds of butter the first year of operation.
Horse drawn wagon are in front of the Brodhead Creameryin 1882. The creamery produced 75,000 pounds of butter in their first year.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Dairy Queen Vonda Baumgartner and her parents Leon and Liona Baumgartner.
Brodhead, Wisconsin depot museum shortly after renovations were completed in 1980.
The Milwaukee Road train depot in Brodhead, Wisconsin with locomotive 508, March 1971.
Brodhead, Wisconsin depot during renovations.
The Milwaukee Road depot in Brodhead, Wisconsin with a work truck parked on the west side.
The Milwaukee Road railroad depot in Brodhead, Wisconsin after it was donated to the city.
The Brodhead, Wisconsin Depot during renovation. Note the logs in the foreground. There was a hardwood logging company in Brodhead in the 1980\'s.
Brodhead Wisconsin train depot circa 1910.
Brodhead, Wisconsin\'s Milwaukee Road depot before renovation by the Brodhead Historical Society.
Brodhead, Wisconsin Depot circa 1914, looking east, with a passenger train boarding on the main track. A boxcar sits on the house track south of the depot. The windmill in the background supplies water to the water tower for the steam locomotives.
Depot Museum, Brodhead, Wisconsin. Don Walters at center.
An old laundry room display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
\"Trunk Treasures\"" clothing display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin."
Railroad display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
A furniture display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Laundry room display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
An old dry goods store display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Raising the American and State flags at the newly renovated depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin. From left: Jerry Earleywine, Don Walters, and Truman Olin.
A kitchen display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Old automobile parts display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
An electric light display at the depot museum in Brodhead, Wisconsin.
Brodhead Depot, Telegraph Office, Brodhead Historical Society, Brodhead Bicentennial Corp.
The telegraph office window of the railroad depot in Brodhead, Wisconsin. This window is on the north side of the building. The photo was taken before restoration of the depot as it became the Brodhead Historical Society Museum. The building was almost razed by the railroad. The Brodhead Bicentennial Corp, convinced the city to purchase the building with the idea of restoring it for a museum. Notice the bricks that had fallen off in the foreground.
The Milwaukee Road depot in Brodhead, Wisconsin with a freight train on the main track at left and the Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 display locomotive in primer paint on the freight track at right. View is looking east.
The Brodhead, Wisconsin Depot with a Milwaukee Road Hy-Rail truck parked outside. Note the old Standard station attached to the Bank of Brodhead at left.
On Friday night February 8, 1907 a fire destroyed the southeast half of the 1000 block of downtown Brodhead, Wisconsin. The fire started when a leaking gasoline stove was lite and an explosion occurred. It started in the T. Hellerud Saloon. Businesses destroyed were 2 barber shops, 2 temperance halls, a billiard hall, a bowling alley, a laundry, and a cigar shop. 2 families were also left homeless. The fire department had trouble fighting the blaze because the two nearest hydrants were frozen. Three fireman were badly injured fighting the fire.
Electric power plant, C. W. Lucas, Dr. G. Bennett, A. F. Anderson, Clark's Drug Store, C. N. Pierce.
The electric power plant in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The photo was taken from the top of the old water tower. The plant was located at 1201 Eleventh Street. It used water power from the Mill Race that was originally dug to provide power to turn the large mill stone in the grain mill. Brodhead was one of the first cities in Wisconsin to have electrical power. The plant started producing power in 1889 and was built by C. W. Lucas and Dr. G. Bennett. It was run by A. F. Anderson. At first the plant only ran from dark until midnight, unless there was a dance or big celebration, when it ran sometimes until 2 AM. At first it was direct current, which meant the further you were from the plant the less power you had. At the beginning they did not have meters so the cost was 70 cents a month per 16 candle power lamp. The very first lamp was at Clark's drugstore. C. N. Pierce owned the plant for a time and it was purchased by the city in about 1914. The plant stopped producing power in the mid 1960's. The building no longer exists.
The Brodhead power plant after it was abandon. The building no longer exists. For more information see item #3208.
The Brodhead Electric Power Plant at 1201 , 11th Street in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The plant ran from 1889 to the mid 1960's. The building no longer exists.
Brodhead EUB Get Together Sunday School Class
church united methodist get together class emmanuel united brethren
Brodhead, Wisconsin Emmanuel Evangelical United Brethren Church Get Together Class in front of the old church on their tenth anniversary. Those known in the picture: Dr. Melvin & Helen Stuessy, Don & Ruth Schwartz &son Kenneth, Ralph & Helen Jones, Roy & June Petersen, Ken Petersen.
Brodhead, Wisconsin fireman Truman Olin with truck number 4.
Brodhead Fire Station, Brodhead Police Station
The fire station in Brodhead, Wisconsin. It is located just south of the intersection of West Exchange Street and West Third Avenue. It opened in 1961. A new fire station has been built on the same block just south of this one. This building is now used as the Brodhead Police Station.
Brodhead firemen emptying the water out of their tanker trucks to be used on a rural fire.
Brodhead flour mill, Brodhead power plant.
The photo depicts the Brodhead Stone Flour Mill, at 1201 Eleventh Street, Brodhead, Wisconsin. The mill existed from May 31, 1863 - 1929. The mill produced 100 barrels of flour per day. The photo shows a wall collapse that happened in August of 1889. The mill was later moved to the right (south) and a power plant was constructed on the site.
Brodhead Flouring Mill, Decatur, John Hendrie, Thomas Hendrie, H.B. Stewart, S.C. Pierce, Raceway.
In the 1850s a flour mill was very important to a growing town. The village of Decatur had one at the dam on Decatur Lake and the Sugar River on the north edge of the village. It was owned by John and Thomas Hendrie. When Decatur missed out on the railroad the brothers knew their future was in Brodhead. The village fathers wanted a mill and talked the brothers into moving their business to Brodhead, The problem being no water power at Brodhead to power the mill. The village gave the Hendries $8000 to build a raceway to Brodhead to run the mill. They started construction in 1860, but ran out of money in 1862 with it two- thirds completed. H.B. Stewart and S.C. Pierce came to the rescue by buying half interest in the venture for $7000. The raceway was completed by May of 1863 and a mill was built where the raceway turns back toward the Sugar River on 11th Street a block west of West Third Avenue. It was a three story building with 5 large stones, that ground 100 bushels of flour a day. The mill was an important part of Brodhead until it was destroyed by fire in 1929. An electrical power plant was built on it's site.
The inside of the Brodhead Flouring Mill. The two men are not identified. For more information see #3199, the preceding item.
Brodhead Gospel Hall. purchased from The Bethlehem Lutheran Church in 1966. The building was built in 1872 by the Baptist assembly. The building can be found on the corner of Tenth Street and First Center Avenue. The Gospel Hall Assembly began in the fall of 1935 when an evangelist from Detroit, MI rented the Dawson Community Hall in Decatur Township for services. In November they rented the old Methodist Church building in Juda. A.A. Gillett, the owner of that property and a member passed away and willed the property to the assembly. The building was sold and the congregation rented an old church building on the corner of 12th Street and East Third Avenue for a short time. On December 6, 1937 the congregation purchased the Episcopal Church building at 706 First Center Avenue and meet there until moving to the present building in 1966.
Brodhead Hardware Co. - Pierce Hardware
Brodhead Hardware Company, Pierce Hardware, J. B. Pierce, Russell & Johnson Hardware, George Marshall, Fred Marty, Earl Bush, J. R. Ties, Dwight I. Pierce
The Brodhead Hardware Company - later Pierce Hardware at 910 - 912 West Exchange Street in Brodhead Wisconsin. J. B. Pierce started in the hardware business in Monticello, Wisconsin on August 10, 1891, with his brother-in-law. In January of 1902 he took over the business alone. In 1905 he came to Brodhead and bought out Russell and Johnson. He took on a partner, George Marshall. Other partners were; Fred Marty 1910 - 1916, Earl Bush 1916 - 1930, and J. R. Ties 1930 - 1936. Upon the death of Mr. Ties in 1936 his son Dwight became associated with his father; first as a manager and later as a partner. Upon the death of J. B. Pierce in June 1949 Dwight Pierce became sole owner. Dwight passed away in July 1979 and the store became incorporated. When Dwight became owner the store name was changed to Pierce Hardware. The building was constructed in 1868-69 and was Brodhead's first opera house. The business celebrated it's 80th year in business in 1985.
Brodhead Hardware Company - Pierce Hardware
Brodhead Hardware Company, Pierce Hardware, J.B. Pierce, Russell and Johnson Hardware, George Marshall, Fred Marty, Earl Bush, J.R. Ties, Dwight Pierce.
The Brodhead Hardware Company - later Pierce Hardware at 910 - 912 West Exchange Street in Brodhead, Wisconsin. J.B. Pierce started in the hardware business in Monticello, Wisconsin on August 10, 1891, with his bother-in-law. In January of 1902 he took over the business alone. In 1905 he came to Brodhead and bought out Russell and Johnson. He took on a partner, George Marshall . Other partners were; Fred Marty 1910-1916, Eral Bush 1916-1930, and J.R. Ties 1930-1936. Upon the death of Mr. Ties in 1936 J.B.'s son, Dwight, became associated with his father; first as a manager and later as a partner. Upon the death of B.J. Pierce in June 1949 Dwight became sole owner. Dwight passed away in July 1979 and the store became incorporated. When Dwight became owner the store name was changed to Pierce Hardware. The building was constructed in 1868-69 and was Brodhead's first opera house. The business celebrated it's 80th year in business in 1985.